Atomic Bomb - AJ

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not radioactive anymore mostly because the bombs that were sent there had exploded in the air. A Japanese man survived both of the atomic bomb attacks during world war 2. A survivor of Hiroshima's attack went to Boston in 1951 and won a marathon. Fat Man was the code name for the bomb that had exploded in Nagasaki.
• Kokura, Japan was the main target for the atomic bomb but it had landed in Nagasaki. A Bonsai tree planted in 1626 had survived the atomic bomb attack and now resides in a U.S museum.
• A month after the nuclear bombing in Hiroshima, a Typhoon hit the city and had killed another 2,000 people. 10% of U.S electricity is made out of dismantled atomic bombs. In 1962, U.S blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was a 100 more times powerful than the one in Hiroshima.
• Atomic bomb tests were a major tourist attraction in Las Vegas during the 1950s. During the cold war, the U.S seriously considered dropping a bomb on the moon to show off there superiority. Russia has over 8,400 nuclear weapons, more than any other country.
• The atomic bomb explosion was only generated by one tiny paper clip. There is a nuclear bomb lost on the coast of Georgia. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb tried to kill his university tutor with a poisonous apple.