Recognizing about the atomic bomb facts definitely will make us sad and feel awful about it. The power of an atomic bomb is so destructive. You may remember the devastation when the US dropped their bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Lots of people were dead, while the building had been damaged. In this post, I will inform you with the top 10 interesting atomic bomb facts.
1.First atomic bomb
Can you tell about the first atomic bomb? July 16th 1945 at 5.30 am is the time chosen as the first test for this atomic bomb. At that time, the people were really excited to see this breakthrough in a human life until they heard a big growl that will make them sacred until this day.
2. Little Boy
The war between Japan and US was getting hotter after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. As revenge, more than 13,000 tons of bombs had been plunged by the US army to destroy Nagasaki. Little boy was the code name for the bombing.
3. Fat Man
Based on the atomic bomb facts, Nagasaki had to experience the powerful atomic bomb again. More than 22,000 at nuclear bomb under the code of Fat Man had been jumped down to damage Nagasaki.
4. Atomic bomb and other countries
The pioneer of atomic bomb is the US. The Nagasaki destruction had showed the other countries about the power of an atomic bomb. It leads them to develop the same weapon. Some of the interested countries may include France, Britain, India, China and also Pakistan.
5. Atomic bomb and human species
Let’s see the next atomic bomb facts. In this world, it can be estimated that 26,000 atomic bombs have been made by various countries. It means that our species are susceptible for extinction since all of them are sufficient enough to demolish the human being all over the world.
6. Atomic Bomb and its possessor
Most of the atomic bombs are owned by some big countries. Russia and USA are the two countries which have the atomic bomb in the rate of 95 per cent. While some other countries which have the same weapon may include Israel, China, Britain, North Korea, France and also Pakistan.
7. Atomic bomb and US
Probably based on the following atomic bomb facts, I can say that US is the winner in Nuclear weapon production. This country has developed more than 67,000 of atomic bombs since 1951. 4680 of them are ready to plunge.
8. HEU
One of the main components to build an atomic bomb is called as Highly Enriched Uranium or HEU. Since the stock of this material is more than 2 million kg. More than 80,000 nuclear weapons can be produced just by utilizing 15 up to 25 kilogram of HEU.
9. The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT)
SORt is an agreement conducted between two biggest countries in the world, Russia and US in which both were agreed to decrease the atomic bomb production. However, this agreement was failed since both countries now still produced huge atomic bombs.
10. Marshallese Islanders
The cash rated in the value of $ 759,000,000 needed to spend by the US government for recovering the effect of their atomic bomb to the Marshallese Islanders. Such amount of money is used to recompensing the destruction impact.
Is there any additional aspect of the facts about atomic bomb that you want to put in here?
Fat Man and Little Boy were not merely dropped because of revenge. The Empire of Japan refused to an unconditional surrender. Our only course of action would’ve led to a land invasion of Japan; one that would’ve costed tens of thousands of more Allied deaths.