- 10% of the US electricity is made from dismantled atomic bombs.
- Only 3 of 12 people on board of the Enola Gay know what the mission to Hiroshima was about.
- At the peak time there was almost 1000 uranium mines in the USA.
- The US dropped 49 practice bombs (called “Pumpkin bombs”) on 14 targets in Japan that killed 400 people and injured 1,200 before dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- The entire cost of the Manhattan Project was around $20 billion. This is over $255 billion in today’s dollar (because of the inflation).
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not radioactive anymore.
- Around 70,000 nuclear missiles were built since WWII.
- Tokyo only realized that atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima 3 hours after it happened.
- 4,680 nuclear bombers were built since 1945.
- The original target of the atomic bomb that landed in Nagasaki was originally Kokura, an other Japanese city.
- The US blew up multiple atomic and hydrogen bombs in space.
- The closest known survivor was only 170 meters or 558 feets aways from the detonation of the atomic bomb of Hiroshima.
- One out of every 250 US citizen worked on the Manhattan Project during the Second World War.
- The last US nuclear test was in 1992.
- The Flame of Peace in Hiroshima has burned since 1964 in honor of the victims. It will be only extinguished when all of the nuclear weapons are destroyed and the planet is free from any nuclear threat.
- There are currently about 16,400 nuclear warheads in the world.
- In this video all of the nuclear detonations around the world are visualised till 1998.
358 Comments
Jeffrey Aguilera
13 is wrong. The MP employed 130,000 at its peak. The population of the United States in 1945 was 139,928,165, so the ratio is more like 1080:1. #1 needs a reference, as that represents more than half of all nuclear energy production in the U.S., and is not credible.
Robert-Alan Lynch
13 is also referencing those who were also indirectly employed as a result of the project, including the construction of the Hanford and Oakridge townships. Restaurants, services stations, TV, radio, grocery and all other businesses serving the residents of those locations, as well as schools, medical, and police. Also taken into account are transportation services and other industrial resources that needed to be shipped.
Zenryo
Source for the first one: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/business/energy-environment/10nukes.html?_r=0
Source for #13: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/11/01/many-people-worked-manhattan-project/
wildling
90% of statistics are made up
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Bo Treat
japan has a problem with atom bombs but not mind control or the ability to shut off humans with the push of a button?
T1metraveler
“Tokyo only realized that atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima 3 hours after it happened.”
Come in, do you copy … Hiroshima, do you copy ?