World War II - Prelude to the Atomic Bomb
Oct 15, 1974; Tokyo, Japan; General MACARTHUR corncob pipe and hat on display. Nuclear weapons have been delivered only twice in the history of warfare, both in the ending days of World War II; the first bombing was on the morning of August 6th 1945, when the United States dropped a uranium gun-type device code-named Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and the last nuclear bombing occurred three days later; the second bomb was a plutonium implosion-type device code named Fat Man, dropped on the city of Nagasaki killing 120, 000 civilians and twice that over time died of nuclear diseases
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