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- '''Atomic bomb''' (''aka'' '''atom bomb''') was the name given to the first explosive devi ...sion of the Japanese mainland. On 6 August, a bomb codenamed [[Little Boy (atomic bomb)|Little Boy]] was dropped on [[Hiroshima (city)|Hiroshima]]. There was a se1,005 bytes (155 words) - 11:55, 18 March 2024
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- '''Little Boy''' was the codename of the first [[atomic bomb]] used against Japan in World War II. It was air-dropped onto [[Hiroshima (414 bytes (61 words) - 11:53, 18 March 2024
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- '''Fat Man''' was the codename of the second [[atomic bomb]] used against Japan in World War II. It was air-dropped onto [[Nagasaki (c848 bytes (126 words) - 11:49, 18 March 2024
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- '''Atomic bomb''' (''aka'' '''atom bomb''') was the name given to the first explosive devi ...sion of the Japanese mainland. On 6 August, a bomb codenamed [[Little Boy (atomic bomb)|Little Boy]] was dropped on [[Hiroshima (city)|Hiroshima]]. There was a se1,005 bytes (155 words) - 11:55, 18 March 2024
- {{r|Atomic bomb}} {{r|Fat Man (atomic bomb)}}199 bytes (28 words) - 11:45, 18 March 2024
- {{r|Atomic bomb}} {{r|Little Boy (atomic bomb)}}200 bytes (28 words) - 11:23, 18 March 2024
- Codename of the first atomic bomb used against Japan in August 1945.104 bytes (14 words) - 11:40, 18 March 2024
- Codename of the atomic bomb used to destroy [[Nagasaki]] in August 1945.108 bytes (14 words) - 11:05, 18 March 2024
- ...eet.asp?id=1016 National Museum of the U.S. Air force, Factsheet:"Fat Man" Atomic Bomb]151 bytes (23 words) - 11:05, 18 March 2024
- 1951 improved version of the Soviet [[RDS-1 (nuclear weapon)|RDS-1 atomic bomb]]; 38 kt yield129 bytes (16 words) - 23:39, 10 June 2011
- ...blend which contains combined information about the military power of the atomic bomb and the Victorian approach to Empire, and this blended mental space is then1 KB (199 words) - 13:48, 18 February 2024
- ...e 1945 atomic bomb in which over 70,000 people were killed.<ref>''Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum'': '[http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/museum/m2-1e.html1 KB (169 words) - 03:11, 29 September 2009
- ...''Hiroshima-shi''), which is widely known as the site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, on 6th August 1945; approximately 140,000 people were killed by the1 KB (153 words) - 09:52, 12 December 2010
- ...|thumb|250px|The area directly under the [[atomic bombing of Nagasaki|1945 atomic bomb]] is now a peaceful park; this monument to the dead marks the exact positio ...epicentre of the 1945 bomb that killed over 70,000 people.<ref>''Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum'': '[http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/museum/m2-1e.html2 KB (342 words) - 03:07, 29 September 2009
- ...oku region of Honshu island, whose capital was struck by the world's first atomic bomb attack in 1945; population about 2,800,000.229 bytes (29 words) - 17:27, 14 May 2008
- ...ring the country's isolationist period, and whose capital was struck by an atomic bomb in 1945; population about 1,450,000.269 bytes (36 words) - 14:35, 22 May 2008
- ...ar fission chain reaction]] there can be sustained. The place can be an [[Atomic bomb|atomic (nuclear) bomb]], the core of a [[nuclear reactor]], or some other p1 KB (185 words) - 12:40, 26 November 2012
- *(1997) ''The Atomic Bomb Suppressed: American [[Censorship]] in Occupied [[Japan]]'' (Asia and the P396 bytes (43 words) - 18:20, 12 January 2008
- Hiroshima's name is known worldwide as the site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, on 6th August 1945; approximately 140,000 people were killed by the2 KB (224 words) - 09:53, 12 December 2010
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- '''Little Boy''' was the codename of the first [[atomic bomb]] used against Japan in World War II. It was air-dropped onto [[Hiroshima (414 bytes (61 words) - 11:53, 18 March 2024
- '''Fat Man''' was the codename of the second [[atomic bomb]] used against Japan in World War II. It was air-dropped onto [[Nagasaki (c848 bytes (126 words) - 11:49, 18 March 2024
- ...]s that drove the energy producing reactions in [[nuclear reactor]]s and [[atomic bomb]]s were also referred to as fuels.2 KB (305 words) - 12:51, 15 March 2024
- ...] Libby was transferred to the [[Manhattan Project]] which developed the [[atomic bomb]]. Having previously been an Associated and Assistant Professor, Libby acce1 KB (144 words) - 08:20, 15 March 2023
- ...010, some 25,000 people, including members of peace organizations and 1945 atomic bomb survivors, marched from downtown New York to the United Nations headquarter7 KB (956 words) - 17:02, 22 March 2024
- * Polmar, Norman. ''The Enola Gay: The B - 29 That Dropped the First Atomic Bomb'' (2004) [http://books.google.com/books?id=8C1y_TRiFnIC&pg=PT8&dq=intitle:%1 KB (225 words) - 12:02, 19 October 2008
- ...g the chain reaction and the feasibility of producing [[plutonium]] for an atomic bomb. He collaborated with the [[Los Alamos]] teams involved in the constructio ...d by President [[Harry Truman]] after the Soviets had exploded their first atomic bomb in August 1949. But Fermi's main base was the University of Chicago, where7 KB (1,048 words) - 13:18, 15 March 2024
- ...nces the British and American scientists had made on the development of an atomic bomb. Following the end of the [[Second World War]], Bohr returned to Copenhagen3 KB (472 words) - 07:32, 20 April 2024
- ...cientists, among which there are J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb", and John Wheeler, who gave the name to black hole. <ref name=Oppenheimer ...com/oppenheimer-atomic-bomb-black-holes Was Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, also the father of black holes?], Space.com.7 KB (971 words) - 07:37, 7 April 2024
- * How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - November 20042 KB (332 words) - 15:05, 4 October 2007
- ...f all life on Earth is pretty much why J.R. Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, later repelled by his own creation said, “we have become death, destroye7 KB (1,106 words) - 18:29, 5 May 2024
- ...July before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.""<ref>{{citation5 KB (755 words) - 07:15, 31 March 2024
- ...s Alamos, New Mexico, where he contributed to the development of the first atomic bomb.<ref name=bethealamostheo>[http://www.lanl.gov/history/people/H_Bethe.shtml8 KB (1,216 words) - 11:47, 12 October 2011
- {{Image|Trinity test.jpg|right|250px|Trinity test of an atomic bomb]] on July 15, 1945 at 0.016 seconds after detonation. The fireball was abou ...he world's first nuclear weapon, commonly referred to at that time as an ''atomic bomb''.19 KB (2,853 words) - 09:20, 22 April 2024
- ...ur was the location of the biggest man-made explosion the world before the atomic bomb which killed over 1,900 people immediately, the figure raising to well ove3 KB (455 words) - 04:55, 1 November 2013
- ...ttps://doi.org/10.1667/RR14492.1 Grant 2017] "Solid Cancer Incidence among Atomic Bomb Survivors: 1958–2009" E.J.Grant, et.al., Radiation Research, 187(5):513-56 KB (858 words) - 12:42, 20 May 2024
- ...other leading physicists of his era, he assisted in the development of the atomic bomb in the [[Manhattan Project]] and was a member of the panel that investigate3 KB (482 words) - 12:53, 25 June 2013
- ...ncluding participants in the Manhattan Project to build the nuclear weapon|atomic bomb, its work is currently organized into four areas:3 KB (516 words) - 07:30, 18 March 2024
- ..."Jekyll and Hyde: Henry L. Stimson, Mentalite, and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb on Japan." ''War in History'' 1997 4(2): 174-212. Issn: 0968-3445 Fulltext: ==Atomic Bomb & Surrender of Japan==24 KB (3,512 words) - 10:50, 23 February 2024
- ...usable with uranium bombs that do not have the pre-detonation problem. The atomic bomb [[Fat Man (nuclear weapon)|Fat Man]] that detonated over [[Nagasaki]] on A10 KB (1,406 words) - 17:02, 22 March 2024
- ...troops. The junior officer's eyes were wide with terror "What is this? The atomic bomb?"3 KB (547 words) - 17:26, 4 July 2010
- *[[Leslie Groves]], Army, Atomic bomb3 KB (429 words) - 12:51, 2 April 2024
- | title = The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb | contribution = Part V: The Atomic Bomb and American Strategy, The Interim Committee Report29 KB (4,548 words) - 05:12, 31 March 2024
- ...ll]] where she was [[flagship]] for operation “Cross Roads.” Following the atomic bomb test in July, the ship operated out of [[San Diego, California|San Diego]] In early 1948, she was the command ship for the atomic bomb test at [[Eniwetok]]. Upon completion of these tests, she returned to [[San11 KB (1,614 words) - 10:32, 28 March 2023
- ...Roosevelt]] should be informed about the possibility and capacity of the atomic bomb, especially because Nazi Germany could be expected to build one. They judge ==Atomic bomb==28 KB (4,424 words) - 21:34, 26 May 2024
- quoted in Burr, ''The Atomic Bomb at the End of World War II,'' doc. 55.</ref>5 KB (753 words) - 19:28, 12 September 2010
- * Asada, Sadao. "The Shock of the Atomic Bomb and Japan's Decision to Surrender: a Reconsideration." ''Pacific Historical4 KB (569 words) - 05:11, 31 May 2009
- ...of names of the leading scientists working on the Manhattan Project - the atomic bomb.<ref name=VenonaIntro /></blockquote>5 KB (731 words) - 08:11, 4 May 2024
- * Walker, J. Samuel "Recent Literature on Truman's Atomic Bomb Decision: a Search for Middle Ground." ''Diplomatic History'' 2005 29(2): 3 * Walker, J. Samuel. "Recent Literature on Truman's Atomic Bomb Decision: A Search for Middle Ground" ''Diplomatic History'' April 2005 - V15 KB (2,009 words) - 10:40, 20 March 2011
- ...tack contained the prophetic prediction <blockquote>The combination of the atomic bomb with remote-control projectiles of ocean-spanning range stands as a possibi8 KB (1,218 words) - 05:21, 31 March 2024
- ...[[Niels Bohr]], [[Robert Oppenheimer]], today known as the "father of the atomic bomb, James Chadwick, the discoverer of the neutron which Rutherford predicted,10 KB (1,594 words) - 09:11, 12 October 2013
- ...Crossroads," tests conductd at [[Bikini Atoll]] to learn of the effects of atomic bomb explosions upon warships. This assignment occupied the cargo ship through m5 KB (666 words) - 17:14, 7 March 2024
- **Devastated by the greatest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb]] (the [[Halifax Explosion]])6 KB (764 words) - 17:10, 22 March 2024
- ==''Deadfall'' and the atomic bomb== ...or at ''Analog'', writes, it "described the basic facts of how to build an atomic bomb. Cartmill and... Campbell worked together on the story, drawing their scie23 KB (3,560 words) - 17:18, 3 April 2010
- * Rhodes, Richard. ''The Making of the Atomic Bomb,'' Pulitzer Prize * Shapiro Jerome F. ''Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film'' (2001)38 KB (5,175 words) - 21:33, 11 September 2009
- ...that month, ''Athene'' was asssigned to Joint Task Force 1, which was the atomic bomb test unit at [[Bikini Atoll]]. Following her return from Bikini, ''Athene''5 KB (729 words) - 17:14, 7 March 2024
- ...ble, for the American monopoly on nuclear weapons (called at the time the "atomic bomb") had ended in 1949. NSC-68 also rejected the prevailing notion that there11 KB (1,593 words) - 10:39, 28 February 2024
- ...necessary factor in Japan's surrender.<ref> Sadao Asada, "The Shock of the Atomic Bomb and Japan's Decision to Surrender: a Reconsideration." ''Pacific Historical21 KB (3,222 words) - 01:04, 3 September 2010
- ...she covered Joint Army-Navy Task Force I’s [[Operation Crossroads]], the [[atomic bomb]] test at [[Bikini atoll|Bikini]], where she served as floating headquarter9 KB (1,277 words) - 10:34, 28 March 2023
- ...ates can employ to obtain decisive effects in the heart of the USSR is the atomic bomb delivered by long-range aircraft." The committee estimated that 196 atomic10 KB (1,596 words) - 18:39, 17 February 2010
- ...tier]], [[Eric Ambler|Eric Ambler's]] 1936 novel in which an [[Atomic bomb|atomic bomb]] is involved, nine years before it became reality.14 KB (2,286 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...ly on his Secretary of War, [[Henry Stimson]]. At Potsdam he approved the atomic bomb targets selected by Stimson and, on the way home, he authorized the bombing ...at Potsdam was to prevent Soviet entry into the war against Japan, and the atomic bomb was used to scare them off. However in 1983 archivists discovered a letter29 KB (4,536 words) - 10:15, 16 August 2023
- ...to high dose [[radiation]] (such as that of [[nuclear reactor]]s and the [[atomic bomb]]s in [[Hiroshima|Hiroshima, Japan]] 1945) increases the risk of developing8 KB (1,162 words) - 22:18, 24 September 2009
- ...nnium: ''All That You Can't Leave Behind'', in 2000, ''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'', in 2004, and ''No Line on the Horizon'', in 2009.8 KB (1,251 words) - 07:33, 20 April 2024
- * Walker, Mark. ''Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb.'' (1995) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=91466714 online edition]12 KB (1,622 words) - 16:59, 18 September 2020
- ...ghter, the blueprints for the proximity fuze, and vital information on the atomic bomb.9 KB (1,510 words) - 07:15, 31 March 2024
- | contribution = Chapter 23: The Decision To Use the Atomic Bomb35 KB (5,450 words) - 06:35, 26 May 2024
- * Rhodes Richard. ''The Making of the Atomic Bomb'' (1986).13 KB (1,948 words) - 21:07, 25 June 2009
- ...ich used high altitude balloons to detect sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests and ballistic missiles. The second report, released in 1997, conclude24 KB (3,580 words) - 11:16, 10 February 2023
- ...tary of War Stimson, however, trumped them all when he kept control of the atomic bomb in his own hands. ==Why the Atomic Bomb?==105 KB (16,641 words) - 13:15, 6 April 2024
- ====The atomic bomb====53 KB (8,195 words) - 13:42, 6 April 2024
- ...ist Republics|USSR]] demonstrated its nuclear capability by exploding an [[atomic bomb]]. Many Americans could not understand how these events could have happened18 KB (2,700 words) - 14:30, 31 March 2024
- ...and that the Japanese decision to surrender was motivated not only by the atomic bomb but also by the collapse of Japanese armies in Manchuria. In addition, it h33 KB (5,452 words) - 09:17, 5 April 2024
- ...the Potsdam Declaration was signed on July 26 and 13 days before the first atomic bomb was dropped on August 7. However, the President and the secretary of state25 KB (3,954 words) - 12:48, 2 April 2024
- ...man]] meets with [[Stalin]] British PM [[Clement Attlee]]; tells Stalin of atomic bomb; gives Japan last warning to surrender; Germany (and Austria) divided into30 KB (4,428 words) - 12:14, 13 March 2024
- ...by the United States ... and only the [[Manhattan Project]] to build the [[atomic bomb]] in [[World War II]] was comparable in a wartime setting.31 KB (4,843 words) - 10:49, 20 May 2024
- ...he [[Spanish Civil War]]. Einstein initially favored construction of the [[atomic bomb]], in order to ensure that [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] did not do so first, and69 KB (10,580 words) - 15:14, 4 April 2024
- ...t Truman]]'s use of the [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|second atomic bomb on Nagasaki]] six months later.<ref>Jenkins 2001, p. 778.</ref> [[Andrew Ma171 KB (25,041 words) - 09:26, 5 April 2024
- ...apital]], whilst in exile in London, and the team that developed the first atomic bomb began their work in the England, under the wartime codename tube alloys.75 KB (11,181 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024