The US during WW2 did actually utilize the Sicilian mafia to help them in the invasion of Sicily. They even gave Lucky Luciano (NYC) a plea deal in response to his helping them in Sicily for Operation Avalanche.
The first bomb was called "The Gadget" for testing. The second bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was called "Little Boy." The third bomb that hit Nagasaki was called "Fat Man."
The Gadget and Fat Man were the same plutonium device. Little Boy was the uranium design ... it was considered reliable so not tested. The plutonium device was iffy, so it was tested. A third plutonium device was on its way when Japan surrendered ... and the US could produce one a month.
Ever heard about 'Imperial Japan'? 'The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing' and 'Unit 731' and all the horrors of Imperial Japan which terrorized Korea, China and even their own Japanese citizens.
Curious, for those of you who studied in the US, did you learn about Oppenheimer in school? John X Lulu Wicked Fun: linktr.ee/johnxlulu Lulu's Fantasy Show: linktr.ee/cluelesslulu
Sadly no. I was aware of the name and that the man lead the team to build the bomb, but it was in college in a quantum mechanics class (necessary for semiconductor engineering) that my professor liked to give the history behind each quantum/nuclear development of theory and experiments
"I remember the lines from the Hindu scripture Bhagwadgita where shree vishnu is trying to persuade the prince to perform his duty , showed him his multi-armed form (cosmic form) to impress him and said NOW I HAVE BECOME DEATH ...THE DESTROYED OF THE WORLDS...we all thought that way ...one way or another" ---J.Robert Oppenheimer
You have to build a reactor first. That one view of black bricks was the first nuclear reactor ... no shielding ;-( Thanks to the Norwegian Resistance, the Germans had no working reactor by 1945. And Germany was assisting a parallel Axis nuclear project in Japanese occupied Korea.
Heisenberg led a German team that first showed the splitting of U235 atoms could be done in a 'controlled' manner in 1939. The German effort to develop an atomic bomb from that point was at
@@Feargal011 Soviet declaration of war against Japan and invasion of Manchuria were critical ... that and the failure of the military coup to prevent surrender.
@@Feargal011 PS ... German and Japanese nuclear reactor held up by false negative by German professor that pure graphite could not be used as a moderator, they had to go ahead with Plan B ... heavy water. Which was stalled by Norwegian Resistance. Americans jumped ahead with a pure graphite moderator. The Germans never critically examined their professor's results, a cultural myopia all thru the war.
@@Feargal011 PS - The alternative to the A-bomb was worse ... fire bombing (which killed as many civilians as the A-bombs) and gas weapons. There is no morality in war.
@@williambranch4283 The US had shipped the components of the third bomb to e ready for use on Tokyo on 19th August. Apparently a tortured US pilot claimed the US had 100 atomic bombs ready to drop on Tokyo and Kyoto (the only cities he could remember). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_McDilda
And heavy water can be used in a similar way to create a very large nuclear weapon because heavy water when used with u-238 it gained an extra Neutron turning it into pu-239 Both the British and the Germans try to experiment with it the Brits didn't have much success in dropped the project while the Germans research heavily into it and were very close to completing it until a team of Norwegian special forces sacked one of the german submarines in transit waiting to pick it up and ended up sinking one submarine and two light Cruisers by sneaking in in the middle of the night placing explosives along the waterline had they not have done that the Germans could have potentially created the weapon changing the course of history because at that point in time, they were very desperate and when you have someone very desperate in the corner they use whatever tools they have in their Disposable try to save themselves
