WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The aerial bombings together killed between 129, 000 and 226, 000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first atomic bomb, named Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima from the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, at 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945. The second bomb, named Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki from the Bockscar, also a B-29 bomber, at 11:02 AM on August 9, 1945.

Detailed explanation-3: -The atomic bomb used at Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, was “Fat Man". The bomb was dropped by a USAAF B-29 airplane named “Bockscar", piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Major Charles Sweeney. The bomb weighed 10, 000 pounds and had a diameter of 60 inches.

Detailed explanation-4: -Initially, only the United States possessed atomic weapons, but in 1949 the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb and the arms race began. Both countries continued building more and bigger bombs. In 1952, the United States tested a new and more powerful weapon: the hydrogen bomb.

Detailed explanation-5: -Nuclear weapon test, 1956The destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American atomic weapons in August 1945 began an arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. This lasted until the signing of the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty of November 1990.