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Charles Donald Albury (October 12, 1920 – May 23, 2009) was an American military aviator who participated in both atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.He was the co-pilot of the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber known as the Bockscar during the mission that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. [1]
The word hibakusha is Japanese, originally written in kanji.While the term hibakusha 被爆者 (hi 被 ' particle indicating passive mood of the subsequent verb ' + baku 爆 ' to bomb ' + sha 者 ' person ') has been used before in Japanese to designate any victim of bombs, its worldwide democratization led to a definition concerning the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan by the ...
Japanese nuclear disaster can refer to: The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , in 1945, at the end of World War II, see Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The nuclear accidents at Fukushima Daiichi following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami , see Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Yoshio Nishina (仁科 芳雄, Nishina Yoshio, December 6, 1890 – January 10, 1951) was a Japanese physicist who was called "the founding father of modern physics research in Japan". He led the efforts of Japan to develop an atomic bomb during World War II .
Sasamori c. 1944. Sasamori was born on June 16, 1932, in Hiroshima, Japan, to Masayuki Niimoto, an oyster fisherman, and Sato Tanabe Niimoto, a homemaker. [1] On August 6, 1945, at the age of 13, she survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima while working to clear debris from the city's streets.
The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and destroyed about three-quarters of the city. Enola Gay participated in the second nuclear attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in Nagasaki, a secondary target, being bombed instead.
Szilárd and Met Lab colleague Glenn T. Seaborg co-wrote the report, which argued that political security in a post-nuclear world would rely upon international exchange and ownership of atomic information, and that in order to avoid a nuclear arms race and preserve goodwill towards the United States, Japan must be given proper warning ahead of ...
The Manhattan Project began in October 1941, just before U.S. entry into World War II. [1] Most of the project was concerned with producing the necessary fissile materials, but in early 1943, the project director, Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves Jr., created the Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, under the direction of Robert Oppenheimer to design and build atomic bombs. [2]