What are some "strange" facts about the atomic bomb and the Japanese internment camps?
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-Many Japanese were put into internment camps in the main land U.S but there were no internment camps in Hawaii, which half of the population then was Japenese.\n-The name given to the secret project of building an atomic bomb was "The Manhatten Project."\n-The name of the plane that dropped the first bomb was "The Enola Gay."\n-The Japanese also held Americans in internment camps mostly in China.
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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.
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go to\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan
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No. The surrender was signed only after two atomic bombs had been dropped, Hiroshima and Nagasaki ?
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2 reasons:\n\n1) Chernobyl spewed out far more radiation over a much longer period of time than the Hiroshima bomb.  It is still emitting radiation, although most is contained.\n\n2) the fallout from Chernobyl landed mostly on land where it still can affect the immediate enviroment.  The fallout from Hiroshima landed primarily in the sea, and water is an excellent absorbing agent and a dispersing agent for the radiation.
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Yeah it's http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm\n\nthere is some good facts there
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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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the ethical issues of the atomic bomb aside, the japanese military was quite prepared to fight to the last man, woman, and child in a US-led invasion of japan.  the loss of life on both sides would have been horrific and much greater than that caused by the atomic bombs.  the sheer magnitude of their destruction was basically a huge wake-up slap to the japanese military and forced them to admit that they could not win the war.
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He was the Emperor of Japan during WWII. He surrendered to Harry Truman after Truman dropped the bombs on Japan. That's what he did.
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In Japan a few years ago the workers at one facility were carrying radioactive solutions in buckets from one place to another where they put so much of it that it started having nuclear reactions from reaching a critical amount.  This was amazing news, but it happens that the people doing mundane, dirty, or high exposure work often know little and are only following or misfollowing instructions of more knowledgeable scientists who are not always there to prevent mistakes.\n\nAlso, one time in the USA, out west, a man was working on a reactor and, they say, everyone had been told not to remove a certain vital control rod.  But he did, and instantly the reactor exploded, releasing radioactive contaminants inside the containment.  The mans body was found on the ceiling impaled by the control rod.\n\nThat sounds like a made up story, I know, but I have heard it told about three times from VERY reputable and different sources.\n\nAnother time was during the testing of fissionable materials in the laboratory at Los Alamos where the first atom bombs were developed.\n\nOne scientist was investigating critical mass by bringing two hemispheres or pieces of fissionable materials slowly closer to each other on some kind of track.  He got them too close and did not get them apart fast enough.  The radiation exposure was so intense he died shortly after that, also I believe one other person who was in the room.
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There aren't any earthquakes caused by underground nuclear weapons.  Unless you can fill us in.\n\nThere are measurable seismic events caused by nuke tests.  But they are not earthquakes.\n\nSo, 'regular' earthquakes shake the ground and are noticed by people.  The seismic events caused by nuke tests do not shake the ground and are not noticed by people, unless they are seismologists and have very sensitive equipment.
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The bomb dropped on the 6th was named "Little Boy"\nThe bomb dropped on the 9th was named "Fat Man"\n\nThe 2nd was dropped after Japan refused to surrender & it was estimated over 500,000 - 1,000,000 American soldiers would be required to defeat Japan. There was no code word - they left on their mission knowing what they would have to do, unless new orders came.
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As far as I am aware, the 2 atomic bombs that were dropped are still causing deaths today due to birth defects and cancers.\nHyposcrisy? I have often wondered the same thing. The question I ask is why does it appear that the US government only allow the US and it's allies to even have nuclear capability?
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Two.  And they were dropped...from planes.  One on Hiroshima, and when Japan refused to surrender, another on Nagasaki two days later.\n\nHydrogen bombs had not been invented yet, and those two were, in fact, all that had been produced at that point (other than one that they used for a test).  The US expended its entire nuclear arsenal.
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2 times with the A bomb.  Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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i think its Dec 7, 1941 - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree. \n\nDec 8, 1941 - United States and Britain declare war on Japan. \nFeb 2, 1943 - Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies. Aug 14, 1945 - Japanese agree to unconditional surrender. \n\nSept 2, 1945 - Japanese sign the surrender agreement;  V-J (Victory over Japan) Day. \n\nOct 24, 1945 - United Nations is officially born.
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because the jews didn't launch an attack on us and vowed to fight a holy war until our demise.\n\nnot all japanese were spies, but there were plenty of innocent japanese in internment camps after the attacks on Pearl Harbor,\n\nis it right? no, but sometimes necessary.\n\nIf I get hassled for drugs because I'm Colombian and I travel from NJ to Florida and back. Am I a drug runner? No, but someone else before me messed it for me and the rest of us.