17 lesser known facts about the atomic bomb

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1. 10% of the US electricity is made from dismantled atomic bombs.
2. Only 3 of 12 people on board of the Enola Gay knew what the mission to Hiroshima was about.
3. At the peak time there was almost 1000 uranium mines in the USA.
4. The US dropped 49 practice bombs (called “Pumpkin bombs”) on 14 targets in Japan that killed 400 people and injured 1,200 before dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
5. The entire cost of the Manhattan Project was around $20 billion. This is over $255 billion in today’s dollar (because of the inflation).
6. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not radioactive anymore.
7. Around 70,000 nuclear missiles were built since WWII.
8. Tokyo only realized that atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima 3 hours after it happened.
9. 4,680 nuclear bombers were built since 1945.
10. The original target of the atomic bomb that landed in Nagasaki was originally Kokura, an other Japanese city.
11. The US blew up multiple atomic and hydrogen bombs in space.
12. The closest known survivor was only 170 meters or 558 feets aways from the detonation of the atomic bomb of Hiroshima.
13. One out of every 250 US citizen worked on the Manhattan Project during the Second World War.
14. The last US nuclear test was in 1992.
15. The Flame of Peace in Hiroshima has burned since 1964 in honor of the victims. It will be only extinguished when all of the nuclear weapons are destroyed and the planet is free from any nuclear threat.
16. There are currently about 16,400 nuclear warheads in the world.
17. In this video all of the nuclear detonations around the world are visualised till 1998.

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The Everlasting Shadows Of Hiroshima

 

This impressive photo series shows the everlasting shadows of Hiroshima which were caused by the nuclear bomb. The shadows are caused by the atomic blast. When the heat of the bomb hit a person that was standing close to a wall, the person's body 'protected' the wall. So what you see in the series is an opposite of a burned in image. The enormous heat of the bomb made it to the wall, the curb, building etc. and changed the color of it. The body stopped some of the heat and it created what appears to be a shadow. The person died, horribly of course, but his or her image was left behind to remind us of how terrible the explosion was.