Nuclear Bombs In Our History
Nuclear Bombs
August 6th, 1945, the US drops the first nuclear bomb in combat over the city of Hiroshima, in Japan. This date is a huge part in our history because no weapon of such mass destruction has ever been used in combat like this. Three days later another nuclear bomb is dropped over Nagasaki, as soon as the bomb detonated around 80,000 people died almost instantly showing the sheer power the bomb. A nuclear bomb has never been used in combat since then, but nuclear development has created a lot of tension within the worlds super powers, and that tension is still building up to this day.
The bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was codenamed Little Boy. weighed around 9,700 pounds. The bomb was equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT, and
August 6th, 1945, the US drops the first nuclear bomb in combat over the city of Hiroshima, in Japan. This date is a huge part in our history because no weapon of such mass destruction has ever been used in combat like this. Three days later another nuclear bomb is dropped over Nagasaki, as soon as the bomb detonated around 80,000 people died almost instantly showing the sheer power the bomb. A nuclear bomb has never been used in combat since then, but nuclear development has created a lot of tension within the worlds super powers, and that tension is still building up to this day.
The bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was codenamed Little Boy. weighed around 9,700 pounds. The bomb was equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT, and