When the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, the attacks were the fatal blow for the country of Japan . The detonations marked the end …
When the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, the attacks were the fatal blow for the country of Japan. The detonations marked the end of WWII. In Fox Nation ’s «Minutes to Hiroshima,» Martha MacCallum discusses the efforts that went into the making of the atomic bombs and their deployment 76 years ago. In 1939, physicists Leo Zijlaard and Albert Einstein sent a strong warning to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. «They wrote, it may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory,» said MacCallum.
