WTF is Up with Nuclear Fission?

The BrainFood Show by Cloud10

Sep 10, 202629:46Society & Culture

At 8:15 AM local time on August 6, 1945, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay of the U.S. Army Air Forces’ 509th Composite Group dropped a single bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Nicknamed Little Boy, the bom...

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