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The History of Nuclear War I - How Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear weapons in August 1945. (Hardcover)
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The History of Nuclear War I - How Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear weapons in August 1945. (Hardcover)
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In August of 1945, some 200,000 people died at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki from two nuclear weapon explosions during Nuclear War I.
This book details the following historical events that led to
Nuclear War I: Fermi and Szilard worked on nuclear fission at
Columbia University in 1939. Plutonium-239 was discovered in 1940.
Einstein informed President Roosevelt of possible German uranium
bombs. Fermi built the world's first nuclear reactor in 1942, to
manufacture plutonium. General Groves and Oppenheimer led the U.S.
effort to build atomic bombs as part of the Manhattan Project.
Soviet spies infiltrated the Manhattan Project. The Trinity Test on
July 16, 1945, was the world's first nuclear explosion. The Pope
(1943) and many scientists spoke against the use of nuclear
weapons. Truman became President on April 12, 1945 and first
learned of the Manhattan Project. The B-29 bomber was selected to
deliver atomic bombs to Japan. On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb
(uranium) was exploded over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. For
three days (August 6th to the 9th) hope abounded that Japan would
surrender but preparations for more nuclear war continued. On
August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb (plutonium) was exploded over the
Japanese city of Nagasaki. Emperor Hirohito survived a coup by
angry military officers and Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945.
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