how many tons was the hiroshima bomb?
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As the RealLifeLore video above explains, on 6 August 1945, the Hiroshima bomb produced an explosion of 15 kilotons (or 15,000 tons worth of TNT) and three days later, Nagasaki sustained an explosion of 21 kilotons.
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Between 1940 and 1945, some 2.7 million tons of bombs were dropped on Europe by US and British forces, half of which landed in Germany. Of the roughly quarter million bombs that did not explode, thousands are still hidden underground all over the country.
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Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombings Scientists at Los Alamos had developed two distinct types of atomic bombs by 1945—a uranium-based design called “the Little Boy” and a plutonium-based weapon called “the Fat Man.”
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The United States detonates the world's first atomic bomb at a test site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Less than a month later, atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastation led to Japan's unconditional surrender and brought an end to World War II.
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For example, the U.S. Department of Energy estimated that about 9 pounds (4 kilograms) of enriched plutonium or Pu-239 would be enough to build a small nuclear weapon, though some scientists believe that 2 pounds (1 kilogram) of Pu-239 would suffice.
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An M6 earthquake releases 7.8 x 1013 joules, and an M7 radiates 2.1 x 1015 joules. If you don't have a sense for what these numbers mean, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima released about 7.4 x 1012 joules.
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(CNN) On this date 74 years ago, the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing more than 70,000 people instantly. A second bomb followed three days later over Nagasaki and killed 40,000 more.
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Pilot of Enola Gay Had No Regrets for Hiroshima Paul Tibbets, who piloted the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, has died at age 92. On Aug. 6, 1945, Tibbets' B-29 dropped the nearly five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tibbets always insisted that he did not have regrets.
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At 3:47 A.M. on August 9, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress took off from the American airbase on the island of Tinian, in the North Pacific Ocean. Operation Centerboard II, the mission to drop the second atomic bomb on a Japanese city, had begun.
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Metric Tons (or Tonnes) A unit of weight equal to 1,000 kilograms, or approximately 2,204.6 pounds.
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THE MOST POWERFUL HYDROGEN BOMB The RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, also known as the "Tsar Bomba", is the biggest and most powerful thermo nuclear bomb ever detonated. It was exploded by the Soviet Union on 30 October 1961 over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Russian Arctic Sea.
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The Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name Ivan or Vanya), also known as Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бо́мба, tr. Tsar'-bómba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. 'Tsar bomb'), was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested.
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American bomber drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On this day in 1945, the United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Five bombs tumbled away into the icy sky. Between 1940 and 1945, U.S. and British air forces dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Europe, half of that amount on Germany.
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British bombers dropped 45,517 tons of bombs, while American aircraft dropped 23,000 tons. As the bombings continued, more and more people fled the city. By May 1945, 1.7 million people (40% of the population) had fled.
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Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb.” On July 16, 1945, in a remote desert location near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated—the Trinity Test. It created an enormous mushroom cloud some 40,000 feet high and ushered in the Atomic Age.
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$2 billion - The approximate cost of research and development of the atomic bomb by the United States, called the "Manhattan Project." A man wheels his bicycle thorough Hiroshima in August 1945, days after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb blast.