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World War II
When the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, the financial crisis had worldwide consequences and the reaction of nations to the dire financial straits of the Depression had a huge impact. In July 1945, the heads of government in Britain, Soviet Union and the United States conferred and were told that Japan was willing to negotiate a peace, but unwilling to accept unconditional surrender
Countries with established programmes are seeking to replace old reactors as well as expand capacity, and an additional 25 countries are either considering or have already decided to make nuclear energy part of their power generation capacity. It could never have been licensed outside the Soviet Union, incompetent plant operators exacerbated the problem, and partly through Cold War isolation, there was no real safety culture
World War II: The Fall of Imperial Japan - The Atlantic
Of that 64 kg, only .7 kg (1.5 lbs) underwent fission, and of that mass, only 600 milligrams was converted into energy - an explosive energy that seared everything within a few miles, flattened the city below with a massive shockwave, set off a raging firestorm and bathed every living thing in deadly radiation. (This entry is Part 19 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II) Read more Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Comments Hints: View this page full screen
Fogonazos: Hiroshima, the pictures they didn't want us to see
So I take it that since you are posting in this blog, you haven't given yourself what you think you deserve as an American.The other irony in this line of thinking is that the poster must believe that "we" as citizens should be doing more to control the "evil" actions of our government (which would justify why we "deserve" something to happen to us). People, don't ever forget who started the war! The Japs did! For the millions of civilians all across Asia who have suffered, including my very own parents, I said the Japs got it easy
In 1945 the US military in anticipation of an invasion of the main islands and of the high casualties ordered the manufacturing of 500,000 purple hearts. That is simple most of our countries have many documents that were sealed for "security" reasons that generally have a 70 year limit as to protect some people's reputations that limit has just started to be reached for some of the worst part of the war and in this more gore the better society we are now living in people will pay for this, sad but true! AS for Japan it got off lightly 2 A-bombs and a total of 650,000 civilian deaths a short an very limited war crimes trial and it was over
All the elements of the story point forward to that moment: the decision to build a bomb, the secret research at Los Alamos, the first impressive test, and the final culmination at Hiroshima. In the 48 years since, many others have joined the fray: some echoing Alperovitz and denouncing the bombings, others rejoining hotly that the bombings were moral, necessary, and life-saving
Why did Japan surrender? - The Boston Globe
In the three weeks before Hiroshima, Wilson writes, 25 cities were heavily bombed.To us, then, Hiroshima was unique, and the move to atomic weaponry was a great leap, military and moral. And, strangest of all: That nuclear explosives may not be particularly effective weapons of war.The Pacific War began in 1941 with the violent humiliation at Pearl Harbor
Nagasaki had been permitted to grow for many years without conforming to any definite city zoning plan and therefore residences were constructed adjacent to factory buildings and to each other almost as close as it was possible to build them throughout the entire industrial valley. This exceptionally strong construction undoubtedly accounted for the fact that the framework of some of the buildings which were fairly close to the center of damage in the city did not collapse
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - World War II - HISTORY.com
In fact, between mid-April 1945 (when President Harry Truman took office) and mid-July, Japanese forces inflicted Allied casualties totaling nearly half those suffered in three full years of war in the Pacific, proving that Japan had become even more deadly when faced with defeat. base on the Pacific island of Tinian, the more than 9,000-pound uranium-235 bomb was loaded aboard a modified B-29 bomber christened Enola Gay (after the mother of its pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets)
According to Figure 1.2 on page 7 of that publication, the MK39 was one of six bomber-deployed nuclear-weapons models in the active stockpile during 1961. However, a group of ex-employees of the Arctic facility have obtained classified documents suggesting that one of the thermonuclear hydrogen weapons sank to the seabed and still lies there today
The first atomic bomb test is successfully exploded - Jul 16, 1945 - HISTORY.com
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The bombs fell to earth after a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air, and one of the devices behaved precisely as a nuclear weapon was designed to behave in warfare: its parachute opened, its trigger mechanisms engaged, and only one low-voltage switch prevented untold carnage. Photograph: The Ronald Grant Archive The accident happened when a B-52 bomber got into trouble, having embarked from Seymour Johnson Air Force base in Goldsboro for a routine flight along the East Coast
Attacking Pearl Harbor was such a cowardly move the little Japanese people deserved exactly what they got, in fact we should have done about ten more in hopes of wiping the losers out. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor
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