is the atom bomb that they used in hiroshima/nagasaki the same that iran is wanting to make?

Answer 1

i doubt it. That A-bomb was old technology. The new ones are so much more powerful

Answer 2

The atom bomb was the first atomic bomb made and was used during WWII, but what Iran wants to make is 1000 times worst. The A-Bomb was only within a 30 mile radius and had to be dropped to the target, the latest Nuclear weapons of mass destruction can not only be deploid from thousand miles away but the devistation goes for hundreds of square miles affecting millions of people, and if you are not lucky enough to be exactly where the bomb is set to hit then you have nuclear fall out and can end up dying a slow painful death. Nothing will grow for thousands of square miles and the radiation can last for 50 years or more, look at turnoble in Russia, these people are still having problems 25 - 30 years from the leakage they had in the 80's. If a nuclear holacause arises and it is headed where I live; I hope my family and I are right where the bomb hits so we will not feel a thing!!!!!

Answer 3

No, because Iran would not threaten Israel. Iran hasn't ever attacked yet another usa, a minimum of no longer for hundreds of years. Israel may use atom bombs purely to keep Iran from growing extra economically good, notwithstanding, it really is noticeably unlikely. If it does attack Iran it is going to in all chance use conventional guns. in view that Israel has attacked neighboring states extra cases than Saddam Hussein's Iraq did, an attack on Iran by Israel (and it would not be protection) has some likelyhood of occuring. I nevertheless placed it at below 50% chance contained in the subsequent 3 hundred and sixty 5 days.

Answer 4

If Iran is able to create a nuclear weapon it is likely to be far more powerful than those the U.S. dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Answer 5

It is probably similar. Iran is using Uranium in their enrichment process. This takes natural Uranium, passes it through a series of steps to separate the stable isotope and give a product that is higher in concentration of the radioactive isotope.

Remember that naturally occurring Uranium has a very low concentration of the radioactive isotope - less than one percent.
The enriched Uranium used in nuclear reactors has a higher concentration of the radioactive isotope - usually 3 to 4 percent (except for reactors used by the military in submarines and surface craft).
Bomb grade Uranium has a very high concentration of the radioactive isotope - in the area of 90 percent usually.

The reason for a higher concentration is that a smaller amount of material is needed to form a critical mass which makes transportation and delivery much easier.

The enriched Uranium bomb is therefore easier to produce and is one of the simplest ways to make a nuclear weapon. That is why I believe that the device Iran wishes to produce is very similar to the device the US first produced and used in WWII.

Answer 6

I doubt it, Nuclear warheads of today are hundreds of times more powerful than the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Answer 7

iran is trying to enrich uranium which is what was used in the hiroshima bomb.

the nagasaki bomb used plutonium.

Answer 8

Yes, or something very similar to it. But if you mean will the "atom bomb" they would want to make be of the same magnitude - then "No" the one Iran would have made would have been of such a greater magnitude, we don't even want to think about it!

Answer 9

None. Iran is working on a nuclear power plant.

Answer 10

Irans would be better, since the refined material is much better.