During World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. An estimated 80,000 people were killed immediately by the explosion, and tens of thousands more died later due to radiation exposure. But did you know that Kyoto was initially a […]
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The first mushroom cloud was observed in July 1946 after the first Atomic Bomb test explosion in Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. But this mushroom cloud was not the most popular. Bob Caron, a pilot during the war took a photo of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud minutes after the Enola Gay dropped the bomb that changed
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The bombing of Japan left a big scar in humanity’s history. It devastated millions of lives and changed the course of Japan’s future in an instant. While the US did the deed, did you know that its ally, Great Britain, had a hand in it too? There was a standing treaty regarding nuclear research and
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On August 6, 1945, during the Second World War, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. More than 200,000 lives were lost then, but did you know there are about 170 trees that survived and are still thriving even after the nuclear bombing? The Green Legacy Hiroshima initiative was established
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Who would have thought that an underachieving student from Princeton would have his term paper confiscated by the FBI? That’s the story of John Aristotle Philips. Let’s find out what happened. John Aristotle Philips wrote a term paper on nuclear proliferation. The report he made also included designs for an atomic bomb which was quite
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The nuclear chain induced by the reaction between rare uraniums is all you need to achieve to produce an atomic bomb. This frighteningly simple technology had the power to completely wreck Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing Japan’s state of surrender in World War II. The energy-converted matter in the atomic bomb that caused monumental destruction to
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed in the second world war because they were largely populated areas. Kyoto was also an urbanized and populated area, but it wasn’t attacked. But why was Kyoto spared from the devastation? According to historians, the US Secretary of War spared the little city of Kyoto due to his attachment to
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