| Beschreibung: | 5569517 (9053) May 21, 1945; Western Front, Germany; A horn blows on VE day, the day Germany surrenders. Nuclear weapons have been delivered only twice in the history of warfare, both in the ending days of World War II; the first bombing was on the morning of August 6th 1945, when the United States dropped a uranium gun-type device code-named 'Little Boy' on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and the last nuclear bombing occurred three days later; the second bomb was a plutonium implosion-type device code named 'Fat Man' dropped on the city of Nagasaki killing 120,000 civilians and twice that over time died of nuclear diseases. [SPERRVERMERKE BEACHTEN | PLEASE CHECK RESTRICTIONS! Nutzung nur mit Genehmigung und gegen Honorar, Beleg, Namensnennung und zu unseren AGB. Nur zur redaktionellen Verwendung. Honorare an: KEYSTONE Pressedienst, www.keypix.de] (©) Copyright 1945 by KPA , 20. Jahrhundert, 1940er Jahre, 40er Jahre |
