We're talking about the atomic bomb and i need to know which were the first atomic weapons used in battle
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The only nuclear weapons ever used in battle were at\nHiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on Aug 6 and Aug 9 1945.\nThey were the 2nd and 3rd nuclear devices ever exploded \nin history. The first was a test in Almogordo, New Mexico. The first and third explosions were from plutonium and the\nsecond, from uranium. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki\nweapons had code names, Little Boy and Fat Man. The names\nreflected their shape. Little Boy was narrow and long,\nsomewhat pencil shaped and had an explosive ignition.\nFat Man was altogether larger, spherical shaped and had \nan implosive ignition. Little Boy was carried by a B-29\nnamed Enola Gay after the captain's mother. Fat Man\nwas carried by a B-29 named Bock's Car after the captain's\nname. Both planes took off from Tinian Island.
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Well, a nuclear bomb means all bombs that perform a nuclear reaction. These nuclear bombs are also called thermonuclear weapons. An atomic bomb is a kind of nuclear bomb. Atomic bombs do nuclear fission, while more powerful hydrogen bombs do nuclear fusion. Hydrogen bombs can be 1000 times more powerful than atomic bombs.\n\nA modern hydrogen fusion bomb can vaporize all the water in the San Francisco Bay, instantly.\n\nEDIT: dubz has it backwards. Atomic bombs are fission bombs, nuclear bombs are all thermonuclear weapons, and hydrogen bombs are fusion bombs.\n\nPPS: usarocketman is mixing up thermonuclear weapons and hydrogen bombs. Thermonuclear weapons just means all of those type of bombs. Hydrogen bombs are a type of thermonuclear weapon, one that does fusion.
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The second wworld war would have ended without the use of atomic bomb. but the war offered an opportunity for the U.S to test the bomb which it has produced. The use of that bomb made the Japanese to surrender unilaterally
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Hiroshima \nD Day\nWorld War 1 \nMoon Landing \nSeptember 11th
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that has to be the soviet made katushya rocket launcher( means "little katie" in russian) or nicknamed "stalins organ" cos of the screaching noise it made when it launched the rockets.it was so deadly it could wipe out a whole german infantry unit if fired in barrages.it was so feared by the german troops that if they caught any soviet army officer who was in charge of the launcher they executed him on the spot.the best sight was when stalin amassed thousands of katushyas around berlin and gave the go ahead to storm berlin.it was the best every scene i have ever seen,just amazeing, the sky lit up ,and the noise was so intense even the rats ran away.music to my ears.;-)
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On which side?\n\nWhat kind of weapon? Rifle? SMG? MG? Aircraft? Tank? \n\nNobody will guess with a question so vague.\n\nEDIT: In general, it has to be the rifle. \n\nFrom various American M1 models and Springfields, British Enfields, German Mausers, Italian Carcannos, Russian Mosin-Nagants and STMs -- not to mention the ones I left out... And the German Stg 44, the first assult rifle qualifies in the rifle category.\n\nNothing could be more numerous than the good old infantry rifle.
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well first off the germans bombed pearl harbor, and no they did not use nukes. you should watch ANIMAL HOUSE it is a great documentary. you will learn a lot.
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During World War 1 with the production of mustard gas, a residue would build up within the catalytic chamber.  This residue was polyethylene, the first real plastic.  It was not commercially manufactured for many more years. The bakelites commonly referred to as the first plastics were actually the first composites. They are not plastics at all, they were named prior to the final definition of plastic being established.
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w 54 is small.\n\nseveral websites on this, for example:\n\nhttp://mothra.rerf.or.jp/ENG/A-bomb/History/Damages.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bomb
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Guns, handguns, Bombs, Nuclear weapons, and other weapons
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Fat Man and Little Boy used different technologies to reach an uncontrolled chain reaction.\nFat Man was an implosion device that used plutonium for the core. The plutonium core was compressed by explosives around the plutonium core to reach criticality.\nLittle Boy was a gun device that used highly enriched uranium. Two subcritical masses were fired at each other from opposite ends of a barrel and met in the middle.\nKnowing this, one can see way the shape of the two weapons was so radically different.
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Its main use is as an alloy in other metals, namely alloyed in steel. \n\nAt one time there was talk of producing a cobalt bomb. I suppose they would use cobalt 60. It has been nick named the doomsday bomb as it would wipe out all life on Earth. \nGWB is probably constructing one right now.
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none other than Albert Einstein but people think that the Americans invented it. Einstein just sell the atomic bomb to them but they pretend t be the inventor of it that's the story i think!\n\n^_^!!\nHope that this helps!
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a) forever\nb) atomic bomb - July 16th, 1945\nc) nuclear reactor -  electircity conversion 1951\nd) first nuclear power plant 1954 - Russia\n\nother than that the US navy first started using nuclear power in the 1950's on submarines as well.  I think the first patent for a nuclear reactor was in 1952.
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The Ultimate War... However, one cannot assume that just because a country has a nuclear warhead they will use it... They haven't yet. America was the developer of the nuclear bomb, and we are also the only ones to have used it in a war (i.e. WWII). And we used it twice... Cuba is screaming at us, "Listen to me! We have nukes!" But they won't do shit with them. Russia, the Cold War, this Long War... All just government propaganda to get you to go along with gas prices and avian bird flu. Pride is not about nationality, it's about being a human being and being alive, for that matter... Just because your country says that you have a nuclear bomb doesn't mean they're going to use it... Just save it for a rainy day, I suppose. Just so that when everybody is dropping the bomb, that one little country (we'll call it Kerplakistan) can join in and not feel left out. If every country had a nuclear weapon, though, America would be bombed first, and we have more nukes than there are countries in the world! In conclusion, it may bring world peace, world destruction, or a wholly new world order.
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William Messerschmitt. It was the first OPERATIONAL jet fighter, used in the Battle of Berlin.\n\nErnst Heinkel built the Heinkel He 280. It was the first jet-powered aircraft.\n\n\nI give up on the Nautilus though.
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If Mcarthur had used atomic bombs on china it would have been a trajic mistake.Nukes should only be used as an endgame.Although we would have won Korea hands down.In 1945 nobody new the impact that it would make until It was dropped on Hiroshoma and Nagasaki.Although scientists had an idea even they were astonished at its raw power and devestation.The power that is harnessed today is 10 times more than in 1945.The bottom line is that it can and does effect the way we live.The earth is our home and the birthplace of mankind, until someone shows me different.Would you destroy your home or infect it with gauranteed death?I don't think so or you wouldn't be asking this question.I don't beleive we needed it in 45 but what is done is done and can't be undone.Also there was a marked difference between then and.The US was attacked on our own soil.We are still the sleeping giant so nations that advocate the use of Nukes in war should be aware that we have and will use them.In this day we can't afford another PEARL HARBOR.The world has changed and we won't be caught sleeping again.9/11 doesn't enter into the equation.