Nuclear weapons have gotten significantly more advanced since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even today those nuclear bombs are made and they are more dangerous and hazardous than those dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here we brought you a list of few things that every person should know about the nuclear weapons.
1. The bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki was supposed to be dropped on the city of Kokura, Japan but a cloud blocked the way.
2.Tsutomu Yamaguchi was a Japanese man who survived both bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
3.Planted in 1626 a bonsai tree is the only tree that survived the blast at Hiroshima and is now kept in a museum in the United States.
4. 10% of electricity in the United States is generated from dismantled nuclear bombs.
5. Nuclear research in India first began at the Institute of Fundamental Research (IFR) from 1944 onward.
6. After India’s defeat by China in 1962, India moved toward the construction of a nuclear weapon and design work began in 1965 under Dr. Homi Bhabha.
7. Most analysts agree there are currently close to 16,000 nuclear weapons in existence, 90 percent of which are owned by the U.S. and Russia.
8. President Barack Obama optimistically declared in April 2009 that he would lead the way toward “a world without nuclear weapons.”
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9. Nine nations are known or widely believed to possess nuclear weapons: the U.S., Russia, China, the U.K., France, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea.
10. The United States actually considered dropping a nuclear bomb on the moon during the Cold War just to show off its power.
11. 11 American nuclear bombs have been lost in accidents and never recovered.
12. India has around 110 nuclear weapons, which is actually slightly less than how many Pakistan has (120).
13. Neutron bombs are atomic bombs that are designed specifically to not create a large blast. Instead, they just give out few tons of radiation.
14. Known as the Vela Incident, out of more than 2,000 nuclear test only 1 had an unknown nationality. It was a 3 kiloton bomb detonated in the Indian Ocean in 1979.
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