https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow Kyle Wellen en-us 2018-05-02 14:10:36 UTC 2026-03-02 11:38:49 UTC hello@padlet.com kyle_wellen_2022 https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/257264321 The Little Boy received its name from the crime movie The Maltese Falcon from one of the characters.]]> 2018-05-02 14:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/257264321 kyle_wellen_2022 https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/257271275 The A-bomb was successfully tested on July 16, 1945. President Harry S. Truman was informed about the successful test while attending the Potsdam Conference which was a conference between President Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. This was located in Potsdam, Germany. ]]> 2018-05-02 14:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/257271275 kyle_wellen_2022 https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259630830 Uranium was a crucial part of the atomic bomb that was being produced  in a new facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1943.]]> 2018-05-10 14:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259630830 kyle_wellen_2022 https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259790092 ¨Little Boy¨ was finally dropped over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The bomb was 1,900 feet above Hiroshima and was airborne for 57 seconds before hitting the ground in the city.]]> 2018-05-10 21:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259790092 kyle_wellen_2022 https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259835954 The bomb was equivalent to about 13-15 kilotons of TNT. The explosion had a diameter of about two miles and destroyed up to 4.7 square miles of Hiroshima.]]> 2018-05-11 02:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259835954 kyle_wellen_2022 https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259836805 The atomic bomb started in Los Alamos, where the bomb was designed and tested for about 6 years. After it was designed and ready to be dropped on Hiroshima, The bomb traveled by train to San Francisco where it boarded the USS Indianapolis. The USS Indianapolis took the atomic bomb to Tinian Island where it would then be loaded onto the Enola Gay, the plane that would drop the bomb. The plane left at 2:45 a.m. and dropped the bomb at 8:15 a.m.]]> 2018-05-11 02:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259836805 kyle_wellen_2022 https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259838469 The intensity of the heat essentially burned shadows on the ground and nearby objects from people and other things including plants and ladders]]> 2018-05-11 02:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259838469 kyle_wellen_2022 https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259839304 The bomb ended up measuring 10 feet long, 28 inches in diameter, and weighed about 8,900 pounds]]> 2018-05-11 03:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259839304 kyle_wellen_2022 https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259839768 On July 26, 1945, Allied leaders called for Japan to unconditionally surrender or face "prompt and utter destruction." Japan ignored the demand and were later warned by the U.S. dropping pamphlets about the atomic bomb that was going to be dropped on them.]]> 2018-05-11 03:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259839768 kyle_wellen_2022 https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259841533 2018-05-11 03:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259841533 kyle_wellen_2022 https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259842835 The atomic bomb, Little boy, wiped out approximately 90% of the city immediately. Around 237,000 people in Hiroshima were killed directly or indirectly by the bomb including burns, radiation sickness, and cancer. 70,000 of 76,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed by the bomb. 48,000 of those were completely razed, or burned and destroyed entirely.]]> 2018-05-11 03:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kyle_wellen_2022/sbcr8re7ifow/wish/259842835