who was the plot of the American war plane that drop the atomic bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan , 1945
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Hiroshima:\nColonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. piloted Enola Gay (named after his mother).\n\nNagasaki:\nMajor Charles W. Sweeney piloted Bocks Car.
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Apparently it was a B-52 bomber:\n\nUncovering One Of Pittsburgh's Most Fascinating Unsolved Mysteries\nB-52 Crashed Into Mon River\nRick Earle, Target 11 Investigator\n\nPOSTED: 5:38 p.m. EST January 31, 2003\nPITTSBURGH -- Friday afternoon, people gathered on the Homestead Highlevel Bridge to remember the day, exactly 47 years ago, when a B-25 crashed in the Mon River. The Air Force said the plane was on a routine training mission from Nevada to Harrisburg when the pilot simply ran out of gas.\n\nTwo people drowned, four survived but no trace of the plane was ever found. Some says it was carrying top secret cargo and the government removed it; others say it's still in the river. Target 11 tracked down one man who claims he recovered pieces of the plane. \n\nThe B-25 came in over the Homestead Highlevel Bridge and the pilot crashed into the river just after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Two years later, Bub Crain was working on the river when he says his crew pulled up pieces of the aircraft. Crain said, "Right in the corner is where we dug up the parts of that airplane."\n\nCrain made the discovery in 1958, two years after the B-25 went down in the Mon River. Crain was installing a pipeline when he pulled up the parts. "We had sectionals, flying suits, 32-volt heated flying suits. We dug up a window and aluminum's parts," Crain said. "I showed them to the general contractor and they said you're getting paid to lay pipe stick to it. So we kicked it over board, put it back we're it came from."\n\nCrain believes the parts were from the B-25 and he believes the plane remains in the river. Crain said, "It was pushed down in the mud. It's not possible that it was taken out without anyone knowing about it." But some like Ed Kelly believe the military came in under the cover of darkness, cut up the plane and removed it on barges.\n\nKelly said, "It's impossible for that much metal to be in the river 13 feet deep. That's not showing a wing a tail an engine. Something's not showing. Where did the engines go?"\nHelly was the wing commander of the Civil Air Patrol. He suspects the plane was carrying a bomb or chemical agent. He says that's the why the pilot opted for the river.\n\nChannel 11's Rick Earle asked, "Do you ditch it in the river?" Kelly said, "No." Earle asked, "Why not?" Kelly said, "First the chance of drowning, second it's cold as Billy Bob in January. You want to pick a piece of dry land."\nAndy Masich is the president and C.E.O. of the John Heinz History Center. The center has joined forces with the B-25 Recovery Group to try to locate the plane.\n\nThey've used metal detectors and sonar and last summer, divers went in to the river but so far, no sign of the plane. And adding to the mystery, the military, after 47 years, still refuses to release the entire accident report.\nMasich said, "It's definitely a strange story and it does make you wonder if the government is holding something back from us."\n\nThe History Center is working with state lawmakers to try to pressure the air force into releasing the entire report. An Air Force spokesperson told Channel 11 News that the report is considered confidential. The only person on board that plane still living is the pilot. Channel 11 News attempted to contact him, but he didn't return our calls.\n- http://www.wpxi.com/target11/1949752/detail.html\n\nRead read more at this link-\nhttp://pittsburgh.about.com/od/transportation/a/b25_bomber_2.htm
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Atomic Bomb, Bismarck, Churchill Mk VII, destroyer, Eisenhower, flamethrower, grenadier, heavy cruiser, Italian blackshirts, Junkers Stuka dive-bomber, Katyusha multiple rockets, Leningrad blockade, Maginot Wall, Norwiegan commando, Okinawa, Pearl Harbor, Queen Mary, radar, Soviet Union, T-34, Unterseeboot, Vichy France, Wermacht, XR-4 Helicopter, Yamamoto, Zugfuhrer Kompanie
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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
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Hiroshima was the first Japanease city that was hit with an Atomic Bomb which ultimately led to the end of the War of course after we hit Nagasaki.  Even though those attacks are said to be brutal many agree that it saved millions of lives if we would have had to do a total land invasion of Japan.
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It was the first Japanese city that the US a-bombed.
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Yes, they had used it but only once in world war two. They dropped the bomb in 1945.
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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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Hmm, think hard_then speak has an interesting one, although the answer is reasonably well known.\n\nFollowing the WWII I'd interview Werner Heisenberg in 1944 to see if he was really NOT trying to build an A-bomb for Nazi Germany, or if that is just what he said after the war. (And after he learned he was going about it in the wrong way.)
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President Turman told Stalin about the successful test of the prototype when they met at the Potsdam conference in July 1945 (A month before it was used on Hiroshima).Stalin acted uninterested,and it's believed his spies had already informed him that America was working on it.
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It was the US entry in the race to develop the atomic bomb. If we hadn't done it, the Germans or the Japanese would have because they were only a bit behind us in the race. It was inevitable that it would be developed one way or another.
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I believe that Hiroshima was always the primary target that day....I think it was Nagasaki 3 days later that was selected because the primaty target was cloud bound.  I think it was Kyoto that was the primary target for the second bomb.
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(m)\n\nON THE 6th August 1945, exactly 56 years ago, an atom bomb destroyed Hiroshima. Nagasaki faced devastation three days later. The Imperial Headquarters requested Dr. Y.Nishina (famous for Klein-Nishina formula for Compton scattering of photons) to go to Hiroshima. He concluded that the damage was due to an atomic bomb. \n\nWhen the bombs were dropped, these cities had an estimated population of 310,000 and 250,000 respectively. About 90,000- 140,000 in Hiroshima and 60,000- 80,000 people in Nagasaki died immediately or within two to four months after bombing, resulting from collapse of houses caused by the blast and from heat rays and fires and radiation exposure. In the 1950 Japanese national census, nearly 280,000 persons stated that they "had been exposed" in the two cities. \n\nRadiation fogged X-ray films stored at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital. Exposed material became radioactive. Kimura and Tajima of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research determined that the Hiroshima bomb exploded at a height of 577 m. They used an electric furnace and a carbon arc furnace to simulate charring observed on the surface of a wooden board of Japanese cypress and estimated that the bomb had a radiant energy of 4.6 million million calories. \n\nScientists could enter the bombed area only after 3 to 4 weeks because of frequent typhoons. They measured higher radiation levels due to induced radioactivity near the epicentre. Additional radiation levels were 10-15 per cent of the natural background. \n\nOn November 18, 1946 Harry Truman authorised the National Research Council to establish an agency "to undertake a long range, continuing study of the biological and medical effects of the atomic bomb on man". This organisation grew into the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC). ABCC continued to work till 1975 when Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) was set up as a bi-national endeavour. \n\nMany believe in the myth that birth defects are more common among the children of the survivors of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In my interaction with general physicians and other professional groups the one topic, which elicits maximum queries, is " genetic effects of radiation". Radiation can cause mutations in genes. Mouse and in fruit flies exposed to radiation suffer genetic mutations. The changes may show up in the offspring as colour of the coat, shape of the wings, etc. But such markers are not available in the human species. We require very sophisticated laboratory methods to demonstrate subtle changes in exposed individuals. \n\n\nPhysicians appointed by ABCC examined 76,626 infants conceived and born in Hiroshima and Nagasaki over a period of six years starting from the late spring of 1948. The researchers did not see statistically demonstrable increase in major birth defects in these infants. While the survey started, certain dietary staples were rationed in Japan. Pregnant women had special provisions. Because of this, the surveyors of new-borns could identify 90 per cent of the pregnancies that persisted for at least 20 weeks of gestation. \n\nPhysical examination of the new born and autopsies on as many stillborn infants revealed that neither the frequency of major birth defects nor the frequency of the most common birth defects differ significantly with radiation exposure of parents. The researchers examined some 21,788 infants shortly after birth and re-examined them eight to ten months later. The study covered 65,431 registered pregnancy terminations and appropriate control populations. \n\nIn a brief review, the Radiation Effects Research Foundation cautioned, "The absence of a statistically significant effect of ionising radiation on the frequency of major birth defects should not be construed as evidence that mutations were not induced by parental exposure to atomic radiation". The researchers saw mutations in every animal and plant species studied. \n
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The American government made the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, they generally do not release the blueprints. I can tell you that it was a gravity bomb, a gun-type fission weapon, with 60 kg (130 pounds) of uranium-235 encased in a bomb.See picture below.
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The island "brought" the plane there.  No explanation has ever been given (although I believe that it's just a figment of the survivors imagination created by the island for purposes that we yet, do not know).\n\nHave a lovely rest of the day.
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no we were planning to invade Japan its self it was planned for sping of 1946. good thing Japan surrenderd for both of us
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The bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fission bombs, with respective yields of 15 and 22 kilotons.  A fission bomb generates about 4,000,000 Megajoules of energy per kiloton of explosive force, so the Hiroshima bomb would have produced 60,000,000 Megajoules of energy while the Nagasaki bomb produced 88,000,000 Megajoules.