atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - The bombing of Nagasaki: By the morning of August 9, 1945, Soviet troops had invaded Manchuria and Sakhalin Island, but there was still no word from the Japanese government regarding surrender. At 3:47 am the B-29 Bockscar took off from Tinian. The aircraft was piloted by Maj. Charles Sweeney, with Capt. Kermit Beahan serving as bombardier and Manhattan Project veteran Comdr. Frederick Ashworth in the role of weaponeer. Their payload was Fat Man, the plutonium-fueled implosion device similar to the bomb detonated at the Trinity test. Unlike Little Boy, Fat Man was fully assembled when it was loaded onto Bockscar, and shortly after takeoff
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Hiroshima University was founded in 1949 in the first city in the world to suffer an atomic bombing. In the spirit of pursuing peace, HU’s mission is to co
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The nine official and unofficial nuclear powers hold 9,576 ready-to-use warheads in 2023 - up from 9,440 the year prior, according to the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor