8/14/2006

Happy Atom Bomb Days!

With the focus on the ME the past couple of weeks, we somehow missed an important anniversary.

The events that led to the end of the second world war:

On the morning of August 6, 1945 the United States Army Air Forces dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by the detonation of the "Fat Man" bomb over Nagasaki, Japan.

The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises 18 km (11 mi, 60,000 ft) into the air from the hypocenter.
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The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises 18 km (11 mi, 60,000 ft) into the air from the hypocenter.
The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the dropping of Little Boy.
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The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the dropping of Little Boy.


We need to focus that sort of energy on the ME...