All 4 Uses of
Hiroshima
in
Zero Day
- I had my degree in nuclear engineering and had been stationed at Los Alamos and also did some work on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.†
p. 376.4 *Hiroshima = port city in Japan that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
- The Hiroshima A-bomb used the gun method.†
p. 376.5
- Hiroshima got hit with a thirteen-kiloton yield and they only used sixty kilograms of uranium and of that only six hundred milligrams actually reacted; that's about the weight of a dime.†
p. 401.7
- There's no way it's as small a yield as with Hiroshima.†
p. 401.9
Definition:
port city in Japan; on August 6, 1945 it was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area