How was the Atomic bomb made and how was athe atomic bomb used in world war 2?
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During WW2, there was a top secret project using the best minds of the world except for Einstein and a few others as they opposed the project called Manhattan Project.  Its goal was to harness the power of the atom and turn it into a weapon.  They did and the first bomb was fired in the Nevada dessert and was called the Trinity test.\n\nThe bomb was then tasked to be weaponsized and a B29 was specially fitted and modified to carey the giant beast of a bomb.  While the bomb was being constructed and designed and such, the military command along with the president were debating the outcomes of a land invasion of Japan.  After much delberation of whther the bomb should be used or hundereds of thousnads of troops be used in a invasion, it was decided to drop the Uranium based bomb on a designated city that had not suffered the same bombing campaign as the other cities had.  The first choice (the name of the city escapes me) was covered with clouds so the secondary target of Hiroshima was chosen and bombed.  The Japanese were stunned at the new weapon.  Emperor Hirohito wanted to surrender to the Americans but the Military did not want to lose face by surrendering.  in the turmoil of the that followed with the debates of surrender or not, Nagasaki was wiped away by a Plutonium based weapon.\n\nAt that time the Emperor won the fight and surrendered to the Americans.  They also did this to avoid retribution by the Russians whom they have faught for many years with prior.\n\nAfter the war was over, a tour was done by the American command and found out that they would have had overwhelming casualties had they attempted to land on Japan as they had 3 lines fo trenches, bunkers, and other assorted fortifications armed with soldiers and civillians.\n\nI hope this answered your question!
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In 1938, two German physicists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Straussman, discovered that a neutron caused the nucleus of a uranium atom to split (fission). Other experiments followed that showed that the energy released in fission was about 100 million times greater than a chemical reaction. At the onset of World War II, the military implications of this discovery were readily apparent to leaders of the major powers. Uranium was destined to find new, more important applications beyond its original use as a colorant for glass and ceramics.
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go on yahoo.com and type in search ((PLANES USED IN WORLD WAR 2))
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The atomic bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, at 8:15 in the morning of August 6, 1945 \n\nNote the spelling....
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Thers no telling how long the war would have lasted If we had not used the bomb. It likely would have gone on for years, probably killing even more people. The bomb made a very strong statement. Still I understand what you mean. I suppose no one really knows for sure.
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world war 2 was going on
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what is the atom made of and explain how they work?
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Helium bomb? Do you mean hydrogen bomb?\n\nAnyway, an atomic bomb uses uranium or plutonium, heavy elements, and bombards them with a force, which splits the heavy nuclei into smaller nuclei, with a huge rush of energy. This is called nuclear fission.\n\nHydrogen bombs are kind of the opposite. They perform nuclear fusion, which is much harder to do. Hydrogen bombs use atomic bombs to provide the force. In the center is a pellet of deuterium, a hydrogen isotope with a neutron. The deuterium fuses together to form helium, creating a much, much, much bigger explosion than fission.\n\nOne modern hydrogen bomb can instantly vaporize all the water in the San Francisco Bay.
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Atomic Bomb is actually a type of Nuclear Weapon.\n\nThere are two basic types of nuclear weapons. The first are weapons which produce their explosive energy through nuclear fission reactions alone. These are known colloquially as atomic bombs, A-bombs, or fission bombs. In fission weapons, a mass of fissile material (enriched uranium or plutonium) is assembled into a supercritical mass—the amount of material needed to start an exponentially growing nuclear chain reaction—either by shooting one piece of subcritical material into another, or by compressing a subcritical mass with chemical explosives, at which point neutrons are injected and the reaction begins. A major challenge in all nuclear weapon designs is ensuring that a significant fraction of the fuel is consumed before the weapon destroys itself. The amount of energy released by fission bombs can range between the equivalent of less than a ton of TNT upwards to around 500,000 tons (500 kilotons) of TNT.\n\nThe second basic type of nuclear weapon produces a large amount of its energy through nuclear fusion reactions, and can be over a thousand times more powerful than fission bombs. These are known as hydrogen bombs, H-bombs, thermonuclear bombs, or fusion bombs. Only six countries— United States, Russia, United Kingdom, People's Republic of China, France, and possibly India—are known to possess hydrogen bombs. Hydrogen bombs work by utilizing the Teller-Ulam design, in which a fission bomb is detonated in a specially manufactured compartment adjacent to a fusion fuel. The gamma and X-rays of the fission explosion compress and heat a capsule of tritium, deuterium, or lithium deuteride starting a fusion reaction. Neutrons emitted by this fusion reaction can induce a final fission stage in a depleted uranium tamper surrounding the fusion fuel, increasing the yield considerably as well as the amount of nuclear fallout. Each of these components is known as a "stage", with the fission bomb as the "primary" and the fusion capsule as the "secondary". By chaining together numerous stages with increasing amounts of fusion fuel, thermonuclear weapons can be made to an almost arbitrary yield; the largest ever detonated (the Tsar Bomba of the USSR) released an energy equivalent to over 50 million tons (megatons) of TNT, though most modern weapons are nowhere near that large.\n\nThere are other types of nuclear weapons as well. For example, a boosted fission weapon is a fission bomb which increases its explosive yield through a small amount of fusion reactions, but it is not a hydrogen bomb. Some weapons are designed for special purposes; a neutron bomb is a nuclear weapon that yields a relatively small explosion but a relatively large amount of prompt radiation; these could theoretically be used to cause massive casualties while leaving infrastructure mostly intact. The detonation of a nuclear weapon is accompanied by a blast of neutron radiation. Surrounding a nuclear weapon with suitable materials (such as cobalt or gold) creates a weapon known as a salted bomb. This device can produce exceptionally large quantities of radioactive contamination. Most variety in nuclear weapon design is in different yields of nuclear weapons for different types of purposes, and in manipulating design elements to attempt to make weapons extremely small.
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It depends on how the bomb is designed.\n\n"The most efficient pure fission bomb possible would still only consume ~25% of its fissile material before being blown apart, and can often be much less efficient (Fat Man only had an efficiency of 14%, Little Boy only about 1.4% efficient)."
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Fission (the term meaning spliting atoms) is only possible with certain elements (elements which are much heavier than iron) like plutonium and uranium.\n\nIn a bomb, they are exploded with very strong explosives.
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Quick summery:\n\nFusion produces energy by taking very light elements, like hydorgen, and combining them together to form heavier ones like helium.  4H -> 1He.  If you take a look at the mass of 4 hydrogen atoms you will find that they have more mass than 1 helium atom.  This extra mass is converted into energy in fusion (E = mc^2).\n\nNow this produces a ton of energy (it is what powers the sun), but you need extream conditions (high temperature and pressure) to do it.  In order to make a hydrogen bomb, that is a bomb that uses fusion to generate the energy to do its dirty work, we need a source of intense heat.\n\nThat is why typically we trigger our hydrogen bombs with a small atomic bomb.  An atomic bomb generates energy through breaking large elements (uranium) into lighter ones.  Just like fusion, there is a mass difference between what you start with, and what you end with.  That missing mass goes into eneregy.  Fission is easy to strat, just get enough fissionable material together and presto.\n\nSo, you use the energy/heat produced by the little atomic bomb to super-heat your fusion fuel (hydrogen isotopes), and bang -> hydrogen bomb.\n\nTo be specific it is actually a three-stage detonation.  You use a conventional bomb to set off the fission (atomic) bomb, which in turn sets off the fusion (hydrogen) bomb.
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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 made airguns during wwii as experimental weapons. germany even shot a few to no effect. aim was to create a vortex to disttrub aircraft. theory was sound, and there is a less than half size model or two about doing special effects, but the german version failed
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It depends on the mass.  Take a look at the graph in the source link. Elements with an atomic mass lower than that of Iron (or there abouts) generally must have energy added to the system to split it.  Conversely, those same atoms lighter than iron will release enegy when you fuse them together.  This is the property of nuclear fission.  It is how the sun works to create heat and light by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium atoms, and it is also the principle behind the H-bomb (the hydrogen bomb, or the fusion bomb, which is much more powerful than the fission bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima).\n\nIf the atom is heavier than iron, it will release energy when you split it.  Heavy elements like uranium and plutonium are unstable, and will naturally decay, releasing particles and energy.  If these high-energy particles hit other unstable elements--like more uranium--you can get a chain reaction, which makes decay happen more quickly.  Under controlled levels of uranium density, you can make this heat useful to boil water and run turbines and generate energy.  But if the density of the unstable element is really high, the chain reaction can take off uncontrolably, causing a nuclear explosion.  this is the principle behind fission bombs, like those dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.\n\nHydrogen bombs require tritium, which is a rare isotope of hydrogen that has two neutrons.  the technology behind nuclear fusion is more complicated than that behind fission.  Power plants currently use fission, but fission has the problem of producing radioactive waste.  Hydrogen fusion has the problem of being hard to control, although people are working on developing a fusion reactor to generate energy, which would be advantageous.
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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 atomic bomb uses nuclear fission ( the splitting of the nucleus of an atom)and the hydrogen bomb uses nuclear fusion (the bringing together of 2 nuclei, which is what happens in the Sun.). \nUranium ore occurs naturally in a state that cannot be used in most reactors or to make nuclear weapons. Enriching the uranium makes it easier to use in reactors. The enrichment process increases the amount of the fissionable uranium-235 isotope. Uranium enriched to contain less than 20 percent uranium-235 is called low enriched uranium. Uranium enriched to contain 20 percent or greater uranium-235 is highly-enriched uranium that can be directly used to make nuclear weapons. This is because it is more unstable, i think.