The Plutonium Bomb In World War Two
In World War II only one nuclear weapon was tested. The Plutonium bomb was tested on the Tranity testing site. Two bombs were dropped on cities. The cities were Hiroshima on August 6th 1945 and Nagasaki on August 9th 1945. Around 220,000 people were killed or died within months of the explosion due to the radiation and about 60 million died over all in World War II. The radioactive material that each bomb used was the “Little Boy” used uranium and the “Fat Man” used plutonium to make each bomb explode. The nuclear reaction for each type of bomb was Plutonium Bomb (Nagasaki): Plutonium 239 goes through fission beginning a chain reaction creating enough power for the needed explosion. Uranium Bomb (Hiroshima): Uranium 238 underwent fission creating