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Season 1 – Hiroshima: The First Weapon of Mass Destruction. When the United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II, it causes unimaginable...
- Soviet Intelligence Knew About The Bomb
- ‘Little Boy’ Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
- Truman Doctrine Calls For Soviet Containment
- Soviets Reply with Their Own Nuclear Test
For Truman, news of the successful Trinity test set up a momentous choice: whether or not to deploy the world’s first weapon of mass destruction. But it also came as a relief, as it meant the United States wouldn’t have to rely on the increasingly adversarial Soviet Unionto enter World War II against Japan. Truman never mentioned the words “atomic”...
On August 6, 1945, just days after the Potsdam Conference ended, the U.S. bomber Enola Gay dropped the uranium bomb known as “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Despite its devastating effects, Japan didn’t offer unconditional surrender right away, as the United States had hoped. Then on August 8, Soviet forces invaded Japanese-occupied...
Some members of Truman’s administration would argue in favor of cooperation with the Soviets, seeing it as the only way to avoid a nuclear arms race. But an opposing view, articulated by State Department official George Kennan in his famous “Long Telegram” in early 1946, would prove far more influential, inspiring the Truman Doctrineand the “contai...
By 1949, all thoughts of cooperation were off the table: On August 29, the Soviets successfully tested their own nuclear device, producing a 20-kiloton blast roughly equal to the Trinity test. The nuclear arms race that would define the rest of the Cold War was on, as the two superpowers battled to see who could amass the most weapons of mass destr...
- Sarah Pruitt
Nov 18, 2009 · On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an...
Aug 7, 2005 · Documentary drama on the first ever use of a weapon of mass destruction. First-hand accounts by aircrew and survivors recall when the USA dropped an atom bomb. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Aug 5, 2005 · Synopsis Living through the world's first nuclear explosion, millisecond by millisecond, from both U.S. and Japanese perspectives, and revealing the tensions and conflicts in the actions and...
Aug 6, 2015 · The United States detonates the world's first atomic bomb at a test site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Less than a month later, atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima...
