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The
first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945,
during world war II. The blast destroyed 68 percent of the city and
damaged another 24 percent: 60,000 to 70,000 people were killed or
reported missing, according to united stated estimates. |
| An A-Bomb is
a powerful explosive nuclear weapon fueled by the splitting, or fusion, of
the nuclei of specific isotopes of uranium or plutonium in a chain
reaction. |
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The strength
of the explosion created by an atomic bomb is on the order of the strength
of the explosion that would be created by thousands of tons of TNT. |
| Atomic bomb
were the first nuclear weapons to be developed, tested, and used. In
the late 1930s physicists in Europe and the United States realized that
the fission of uranium could be used to create and extremely powerful
explosion. |
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The U.S.
government established the top secret Manhattan Project in 1942 to develop
an atomic device. |
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