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How many people would get killed if an atomic bomb struck New York?
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No answer can be given to this without knowing much more information as there is no "standard" atomic bomb. First you need to know the yield (i.e. explosive force) and atomic bombs have been designed with yields ranging from as small as 10 tons to 100 million tons of TNT equivalent. Second you need to know the altitude at which the atomic bomb exploded, as the higher the altitude the more the blast can spread to do damage (but above the optimal altitude for that yield the blast weakens too much as it spreads). Third you need to know how close to the center of population density ground zero was, as if this is missed by a wide margin (as it was at Nagasaki) damage and fatalities are significantly reduced. Given these three factors and the necessary effects equations a reasonable estimate for the answer to your question can be made.
However many other factors also affect the damage and fatalities caused by an atomic bomb, a few are: terrain, building types, weather, if the bomb was a clean or dirty design, etc. To calculate a correct answer for the effects of a given atomic bomb detonation all of these must also be included.
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More people were killed in air raids than by the two atomic bombs but it was the atomic bomb that was condemnedwhy do you think this is?
More people were killed in air raid because they were used more as the atomic was hard to make and cost more money so using more normal bombs more often would have been cheaper even thought the atomic bombs were a) more powerful, and, b) even thought they killed more people the air raids were more particle.
What are Plutonium atomic bombs?
Plutonium was and still is used for atomic bombs. The atomic bombs you are talking about would be fat man and little boy. They were the two used to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki Many people were killed when the b-29 bomber dropped fat man.
What response did people have to the Atomic age In other words how did people's lives change?
People were optimistic at the start of the Atomic age. They thought all power generators would be atomic from then on.
What would happen if the people weren't killed by guns?
They would be killed by other means
Why would people want to use atomic bombs?
See atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Why Truman should've negotiated a treaty rather than use atomic bombs?
Truman used the bombs to get to the point where japan would surrender and that was the only way besides a costly invasion of the Japanese mainland which would have killed millions of Americans and probebly 90% of all Japanese people. the atomic bombs actuallly saved lifes
Atomic bombs vs regular bombs?
If what you mean is,is an atomic bomb stronger or weaker then a regular bomb then it's the atomic bomb,a regular bomb would have only damaged Hiroshima not completely killed it( the U.S also bomb Nagasaki)
Was the atomic bomb necessary?
i think it WASN'T necessary if these war equipments were never invented well then war wouldn't be so dreadful. i know even if they wern't invented there would still be fights but they would never have been as deadly.the atomic bomb espesilly has killed many inisent people however i know there would have been some bad people they killed but its like saying im going to kill your family and pets because of your father...stupid crap! xx
Why did the americans decide to drop the atomic bomb in japan?
The US dropped atomic bombs to end the war.If they didn't, The US would have had to invade Japan. That would have cost hundreds of thousands of American lives.So they dropped two atomic bombs that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian lives.
How many American lives were saved by using the atomic bomb?
four million people would have did if we did not use the atomic bomb
What happend to people during the hiroshima bombing?
When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, some people were vaporized, some were blown to bits, some were killed by the explosion, some received heat burns that would kill them in a few days, some were killed or injured by flying by flying debris, some received a dosage of radiation which would cause leukemia at a later date, and some survived.
How did the atomic bomb save American lives?
It shortend the war by forcing the Japanese to surrender under U.S. terms. The Japanese people were not going to give up, they fought to the very end, but had it not been for the devastation of the atomic attacks we might still be fighting.Also if president Truman allowed the war to go on as it was, the allies would invade Japan and more soldiers would be killed.
