What was the name of the airplane that bombed Hiroshima?
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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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Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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a bomb destroys the world
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It's about the size of a suitcase!\nThey call it a suitcase nuke because it fits in a suitcase and it's about .300 kilotons, much much lighter and less powerful.
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No-one can beat paul tibbets' destruction of 140,000 Hiroshima residents..... a close second would be charles sweeney, the commander of the nagasaki detonation, 80,000 residents.
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Hiroshima was nuked, you need to rephrase your question.
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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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go on yahoo.com and type in search ((PLANES USED IN WORLD WAR 2))
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It was the De Havilland Aircraft Company.\n\nThat's all I know, I'm afraid.
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A nuclear weapon is a weapon which derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fission or fusion. As a result, even a nuclear weapon with a relatively small yield is significantly more powerful than the largest conventional explosives, and a single weapon is capable of destroying an entire city.\n\nIn the history of warfare, nuclear weapons have been used only twice, both during the closing days of World War II. The first event occurred on the morning of August 6, 1945, when the United States dropped a uranium gun-type device code-named "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The second event occurred three days later when a plutonium implosion-type device code-named "Fat Man" was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. The use of these weapons, which resulted in the immediate deaths of around 100,000 to 200,000 individuals and even more over time, was and remains controversial — critics around the world charged that they were unnecessary acts of mass killing, while others claimed that they ultimately reduced casualties on both sides by hastening the end of the war. This topic has seen increased debate recently in the wake of increased terrorism involving killings of civilians by both state and non-state players, with parties claiming that the end justifies the means (see Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for a full discussion).\n\nSince the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, nuclear weapons have been detonated on over two thousand occasions for testing and demonstration purposes. The only countries known to have detonated such weapons are (chronologically) the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France, People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. Various other countries may hold nuclear weapons but have never publicly admitted possession, or their claims to possession have not been verified. For example, Israel has modern airborne delivery systems and appears to have an extensive nuclear program with hundreds of warheads (see Israel and weapons of mass destruction), though it officially maintains a policy of "ambiguity" with respect to its actual possession of nuclear weapons. Iran currently stands accused by a number of governments of attempting to develop nuclear capabilities, though its government claims that its acknowledged nuclear activities, such as uranium enrichment, are for peaceful purposes. South Africa also secretly developed a small nuclear arsenal, but disassembled it in the early 1990s. (For more information see List of countries with nuclear weapons.)\n\nApart from their use as weapons, nuclear explosives have been tested and used for various non-military uses.
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Universal Studios has made a movie called "United 93" about the 4th plane that was taken town by heroic Americans. The film will be released in theatres on April 28, 2006. \n\nhttp://www.flight93.net/index.php.
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The plane crashed, the bomb in it exploded as the plane hits the ground\n\n\nI think...
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Im an Army guy but love old airplanes!! The B-58 Hustler, a supersonic delta wing airplane. It had this cool centerline fueltank/atomic bomb combination. Lots of pages about it....just google Last time I saw one was at Chanute AFB when I was a CAP cadet in 80's   ....Why would a nice lady like you want to know about an old airplane for?? I would talk to the people in the sight i showed you about the patch...look for other sights by typing B-58 in google..lots of sights with people who flew, sombody would know him .
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed with ATOMIC weapons, the first (and so far only) time such atomic/nuclear weapons have ever been used in warfare.\n\nOh...  Japanese aggressions.\n\nWell-- instead, let's focus on the AMERICAN ones, huh?
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Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay. Fat Man was supposed to be dropped on Kokura but was dropped on the secondary target Nagasaki by Bockscar.
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Atomic bombs use fission reaction (splitting atoms) from the nuclear material.  Hydrogen bombs are Fusion bombs where the hydrogen atoms are Fused together generating much more energy than fission.  Hydrogen bombs have to use an atomic bomb to generate the Fusion reaction in the Hydrogen.\n\nYour not Osama are you??
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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