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VJ Day – 14 August 1945

Posted on August 14, 2017August 6, 2020 by mart

On 14 August 1945, Japan unconditionally surrendered ending WWII in the Pacific. This followed the dropping of atomic weapons by the United States. “Little Boy”, a 15 kiloton of TNT, uranium based bomb destroyed Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and was deployed by the B29 Superfortress “Enola Gay”. “Fat Man”, Continue Reading

Posted In Military, Modern Age, USATagged In atomic bomb, enola gay, hiroshima, nagasaki

Americans planned to nuke the Moon

Posted on April 20, 2017 by mart

On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union took the lead in the Space Race by launching Sputnik I, the first successful artificial satellite. One of several plans by the the US government to reverse this embarrassment, given the failure of the their own Project Vanguard satellites, was to detonate an Continue Reading

Posted In Military, Modern Age, Space, USATagged In atomic bomb, moon

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