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the
Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims
uses 70,000
fiber optic
lights to represent the number of people killed by
the atomic bomb
?
Fumio Kyuma
(
pictured
) resigned as
Japanese
Minister for Defense over statements that the
atomic bombing of Nagasaki
"could not be helped" while also representing
Nagasaki
in the
Diet of Japan
?
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Atomic bomb
William Ohnesorge
,
Party
member of the
Third Reich
, heavily participated in research toward a German
atomic bomb
while acting as President of the
Reichspost
, the German postal service?
Willis Adcock
, a
Canadian-American
chemist
, helped create the first
atomic bomb
, the
silicon
transistor
, and the
integrated circuit
?
Aluminaut
, the world's first
aluminum
submarine
, helped recover a lost
atomic bomb
?
at the end of
World War II
, ten German nuclear scientists were detained and
wiretapped
at a house in England as part of
Operation Epsilon
in order to determine how close the Nazis had come to building an
atomic bomb
?
sixteen ships of the
US Navy
's
Gilliam
class
, including
Banner
,
Carteret
,
Dawson
(pictured)
,
Gasconade
and
Geneva
, were
expended
as
atomic bomb
targets after barely two years of service?
the sculpture
Critical Assembly
used an actual central component of an
atomic bomb
?
Hiroshima
Tsutomu Yamaguchi
is the only known
survivor
of the
atomic bombings
of both
Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki
at the
end of World War II
?
Nuclear weapon
David Snell
, who was the first person to allege that
Japan
had tested its own
atomic bomb
prior to
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
, later became a writer for
Life Magazine
?
Program 437
was a
United States
military
antisatellite
program using
nuclear weapons
delivered by
Thor
ballistic missiles
as the primary mechanism of defeating enemy satellites?
a congressional reporter mistranscribed testimony about a U.S.
nuclear test
from
1962
named
Sedan nuclear test
, leading to fears that a
nuclear weapon
had actually been tested in the
Sudan
?
after
World War II
, the
Soviets
took nearly 100 tons of
uranium oxide
as
reparations
from a facility of the company
Auergesellschaft
, accelerating their
development
of the
atomic bomb
by a year?
the
documentary film
Countdown to Zero
, which analyzes the likelihood of the use of
nuclear weapons
, has been privately
screened
for
U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton
?
the
Norwegian heavy water sabotage
was a key part of
Allied
efforts to prevent
Nazi Germany
from developing
nuclear weapons
?
the
UK Government Decontamination Service
was set up in
2005
after increased threats of
terrorism
to help the
United Kingdom
resist and recover from
biological
,
chemical
and
nuclear
incidents?
under the leadership of its
Ministry of Defense
,
Ukraine
voluntarily gave up its
nuclear weapons
?
Second World War
Air Chief Marshal
Sir Lewis Hodges
was awarded two
DSOs
and a Bar to his
DFC
for flying secret missions for
SOE
in Europe and the Far East in the
Second World War
?
Air Marshal
Sir
Richard Gordon Wakeford
flew
Catalina
flying boats
in the
Second World War
, and was involved in the last sinking of a German
U-boat
on
8 May
1945
?
football
champion
Romualdas Marcinkus
(pictured)
was the only
Lithuanian
pilot to serve in the
Royal Air Force
during the
Second World War
?
Australian
flying ace
Charles Scherf
(pictured)
was credited with 14½ aerial victories from 38 operational sorties during the
Second World War
, with an additional nine aircraft destroyed on the ground?
Australian
Second World War
flying ace
Adrian Goldsmith
was credited with shooting down 12¼
Axis
aircraft over
Malta
between the months of February and July 1942?
Australian
Second World War
flying ace
Virgil Brennan
shot down 10
Axis
aircraft over
Malta
in a five month period during 1942?
Australian
flying ace
Russell Foskett
was credited with 6½ aerial victories during the
Second World War
, before he was killed over the
Aegean Sea
in October 1944?
Corporal
Bryan Budd
is being
posthumously
awarded the
Victoria Cross
for his actions in
Helmand Province
,
Afghanistan
, only the 13th such award since the
Second World War
?
cricketer
Roger Kimpton
also won an
Oxford University
tennis tournament and a golf
blue
, and was awarded a
Distinguished Flying Cross
as a
Second World War
fighter pilot
?
Czech
Second World War
fighter pilot
František Fajtl
briefly flew for the
French Air Force
before commanding units in the
Royal Air Force
and then a
Czechoslovak
regiment formed by the
Soviet Union
?
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