Word: nagasaki
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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From Korea Hebert returned to Japan, where he wrote a piece on the atomic bomb damage at Nagasaki. This week he was in Manila, awaiting permission to enter Indo-China. Le Devoir intended to go right on front-paging his reports...
...after Atomic Bomb No. 2 struck Nagasaki, Emperor Hirohito stepped down from the clouds at another imperial conference, and for the first time in his career dictated a major decision: to accept the Allies' terms of unconditional surrender...
...much better than the Japanese ones. Because of quake-proof construction, many Japanese buildings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were even stronger than most modern U.S. buildings. U.S. houses have a slight edge over Japan's "paper houses." Houses 7,500 feet away from the burst might survive (compared with a safety limit of 8,500 feet at Nagasaki...
...crude bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rush jobs intended to be carried in a B29. There was little reason to keep their weight down, since the B-29s of the time could carry 20,000 lbs. from Saipan to the target. Long after Nagasaki, the weight of the first bombs leaked out. It was about...
Shock Wave. When an atom bomb explodes above the ground (as it did at Nagasaki and Hiroshima), the air around it is heated tremendously. Its push to expand creates a shock wave that roars outward in all directions with enormous speed. At 1,000 ft. from "zero," the point directly beneath the bomb, the wind whooshes out at 800 m.p.h., faster than the speed of sound. Two miles away, it is still blowing at 70 m.p.h...