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Is there a movie based on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007) – IMDb.
Is there anything stronger than an atomic bomb?
But a hydrogen bomb has the potential to be 1,000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, according to several nuclear experts. The U.S. witnessed the magnitude of a hydrogen bomb when it tested one within the country in 1954, the New York Times reported.
Was Fat Man or Little Boy dropped first?
It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation marked the third nuclear explosion in history.
Who made the nuke?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer is often called the “father of the atomic bomb” for leading the Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapon during World War II.
What bomb is more powerful than the atomic bomb?
Hydrogen bombs, or thermonuclear bombs, are more powerful than atomic or “fission” bombs. The difference between thermonuclear bombs and fission bombs begins at the atomic level.
What is the biggest atomic bomb ever made?
The largest bomb ever created was the Tsar Bomba hydrogen bomb . It was developed by the former Soviet Union and tested in 1961. It had an estimated yield of 50 megatons of TNT. This is equivalent to around 1500 times the combined power of the atomic bombs used to end WW2.
What are the reasons for the atomic bomb?
Some of the major reasons that the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, include ending the World War II military activity in the Pacific as quickly and with as few American lives lost as possible, justifying the money spent on constructing the bomb, and showing the Soviet Union the might of American military power.
What is the purpose of the atomic bomb?
Transcript of the purpose of the atomic bomb. The purpose of the atom bomb to me was a way for the U.S. to prove they were the strongest in the world by bombing Japan but it end up hurting the world creating the fear of a new age of warfare ( a nuclear warfare), the cold war, and showed the world nuclear are nothing to play with.