WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Hiroshima
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Nagasaki
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Osaka
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Tokyo
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Detailed explanation-1: -At 11:02 a.m. on Ausust 9, 1945, the explosion of a second atomic bomb devastated the city of Nagasaki..
Detailed explanation-2: -Thick clouds over the primary target, the city of Kokura, drove Sweeney to a secondary target, Nagasaki, where the plutonium bomb “Fat Man” was dropped at 11:02 that morning. More powerful than the one used at Hiroshima, the bomb weighed nearly 10, 000 pounds and was built to produce a 22-kiloton blast.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Manhattan Project produced two different types of atomic bombs, code-named Fat Man and Little Boy. Fat Man, which was dropped on Nagasaki, was the more complex of the two.
Detailed explanation-4: -The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today. By the end of 1945, the bombing had killed an estimated 140, 000 people in Hiroshima, and a further 74, 000 in Nagasaki.
Detailed explanation-5: -This implosion-type plutonium bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, weighed 10, 800 pounds. The bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945, at 11:01 AM.