What was the secondary city chosen for the first Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
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Kokura\nhttp://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/CG/CG_09C.htm\n\n"8/3/45 - General Groves sent 'Special Bombing Mission #13' designating Hiroshima as the target.  The secondary target is Kokura."\n\nhttp://www.vce.com/hironaga.html\n\n"Three days after Hiroshima, the B-29 bomber, 'Bockscar' piloted by Sweeney, reached the sky over Kokura on the morning of August 9 but abandoned the primary target because of smoke cover and changed course for Nagasaki."\n\nKokura is in southwest Japan, as shown on this map.\nhttp://www.kyutech.ac.jp/english/tobata/access.html
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Christians did not drop atom bombs on the Japanese. Americans dropped atom bombs on the Japanese. It is an important distinction, and should be clear.\n   As the "poor" Japanese attacked our country without provocation at Pearl Harbor, I feel rather less sympathy than I might, although no nation should be subject to the terrors of nuclear war.
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http://www.theenolagay.com/event.html\n\nThis Bomber ended the war, so its the best.
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Enola Gay, and Little Boy was the name of the bomb itself.\n\n"Little Boy was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. It exploded approximately 1,800 feet over Hiroshima, Japan, on the morning of August 6, 1945, with a force equal to 13,000 tons of TNT. Immediate deaths were between 70,000 to 130,000.\n\nLittle Boy was dropped from a B-29 bomber piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Col. Paul W. Tibbets. Tibbets had named the plane Enola Gay after his mother the night before the atomic attack."
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Vatican City!!!...I was the first ...
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Hiroshima 140,000\nNagasaki 74,000
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You have to ask if it was the right decision ? The bombing potentially saved millions of lives on both sides. The Japanese were prepared to fight to the last man and those two bombs convinced the Emperor to surrender.
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1) the US wanted to get the Japanese back for the bombing of Pearl Harbor\n\n2) the US wanted to intimidate the Soviet Union \n(because there were tensions between the US and the former Soviet Union and the US wanted to show the Soviet Union that it had a new, deadly weapon which the Soviet Union didn't have)\n\n3) Truman justified the dropping of the bomb by stating Japan would not surrender without an invasion that'd cause enormous loss of both American and Japanese lives. At least, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki...no American lives were lost (*rolls eyes*)\n\n\nThe bombing of Hiroshima came first (August 6, 1945), the US dropped the bomb in hopes Japan surrenders.\nSince Japan didn't surrender, 3 days later (August 9, 1945) the US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. \nJapan got the point, surrendered, and World War 2 was over.
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we invaded iwo jima, which is like Japan's Hawaii.  It is considered a main Japanese island by not the main Japanese island.
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type in "chernobyl, ukraine"
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The Hiroshima Bomb \nSize: length - 3 meters, diameter - 0.7 meters. \nWeight: 4 tons. \nNuclear material: Uranium 235. \nEnergy released: equivalent to 12.5 kilotons of TNT. \nCode name: "Little Boy". \nhttp://mothra.rerf.or.jp/ENG/A-bomb/History/Damages.html\n\nLos Alamos produced two operational bombs: “Little Boy,” the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and the “Fat Man” plutonium bomb used at Nagasaki.\nLittle Boy  (Hiroshima) Fat Man  (Nagasaki)   \nWeight 9,700 lbs. 10,800 lbs.   \nLength 10 ft.                10 ft. 8 in.   \nDiameter 28 in.                  60 in.   \nFuel enriched uranium enriched plutonium   \nDetonation gun type implosion  \nExplosive Force15,000 tons TNT21,000 tons TNT \nAlthough the explosive power of Fat Man was greater than that of Little Boy, the damage was less extensive because of the hilly terrain around Nagasaki.\nSources: The Manhattan Project Heritage \nPreservation Association; USAF Museum.\n\nFrom URL http://www.afa.org/new_root/enolagay/AB.asp
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Any radiatioactive isotopes from the blast would have dispersed to near ambient levels in a very short distance.  Certainly in less then 500 miles.
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There are two basic types of atomic bomb. The gun type was used over Hiroshima and used U-235. The compression type is more common now and was used over Nagasaki and used Pu-239.
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The "Trinity" test was the first test of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945 at 33.675° N 106.475° W. , thirty miles southeast of Socorro on what is now White Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was a test of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, the same type of weapon later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The detonation was equivalent to the explosion of around 20 kilotons of TNT, and is usually credited as the beginning of the Atomic Age.
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Here is a good article by Gar Alperovitz on the topic of the bombing of Hiroshima:\nhttp://www.commondreams.org/views05/0803-26.htm\n\nGar Alperovitz is THE historian when it comes to Hiroshima. His two best books on the subject are:\nThe Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and\nAtomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam : The Use of the Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation With Soviet Power