1. Bombing Japan
(Szasz 25) The scientists were so confident that the gun-type atomic bomb would work "no test was conducted, and it was first employed in military action over Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945."... They feared that if they dropped the untested plutonium bomb and it failed to work, "the enemy would find themselves owners of a 'gift' atomic weapon."... The atomic bomb has been used twice in warfare. The Uranium bomb nicknamed "Little Boy," which weighed over 4.5 tons, was dropped over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. ... (Outlaw 4) [See blast ranges diagram] Nagasaki f...
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