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‘Weapons of Mass-Destruction’
 The Atomic Bomb
• In 1942 the atomic bomb was developed in
the USA to combat the threat of Hitler.
• After the Germans surrendered, research
continued in secret.
• It cost nearly $2 billion and more than
120,000 people were involved.
• It was named the ‘Manhattan Project’.
• On the 16th July 1945 the worlds first
atomic bomb test was carried out in New
Mexico.
 Japan & The Atomic Bomb
• The first Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima,
Japan on the 6th August 1945.
• It was dropped from the ‘Enola Gay’ and was
nicknamed ‘Little Boy.’
• The strong winds from the blast destroyed all
buildings within a 1.5 mile radius and the huge
amount of heat emitted burnt everything in its path
– including the people of Hiroshima.
• It is estimated that between 140,000 and 200,000
people have died as a result of the bomb.
• Three days later the second bomb was dropped on
Nagasaki, Japan.
• It’s nickname was ‘Fat Man.’
• Even though the bomb was larger and more powerful
than ‘Little Boy’ it caused less damage due to the
geography of the city.
• Approximately 70,000 died as a result of the bomb.
Look away now if
you are easily
disturbed!
‘Little
Boy’

‘Fat
Man’
 The Effects Of Nuclear Weapons
• Nuclear weapons produce devastating and long-term
effects on human and animal life, as well as the
environments in which they live. These are the
hardest of all types of weapons to make because the
critical nuclear elements — plutonium and/or highly
enriched uranium — are hard to come by, and are very
expensive.

Delivery Systems
• These weapons are most likely to be delivered in the
form of ballistic missiles or bombs dropped by fly-
over bombers. Terrorists could also cause accidents
involving nuclear power plants, nuclear medicine
machines in hospitals and vehicles used in the
transportation of nuclear waste.
• The size of an actual nuclear weapon can be quite
small, and could easily fit into a large car or
truck. That has sparked a fear among many experts
that a nuclear warhead could simply be driven into a
large city by terrorists and detonated by either a
suicide bomber or by remote control.
 Who Has Them?

•The United States has a stockpile of 39,000 nuclear weapons and

103 power plants. Russia has a similar supply.

Nuclear-armed states:
United States
Russia
United Kingdom
France
China
India
Israel
Pakistan
North Korea
First comes the
explosion…
Since 1940 the USA has spent
$239182430 every day on
defence of their country
That works out at
approximately $9million an
hour
Or
$166thousand a minute

…they have 30,000 nuclear

weapons at their disposal…