Boom!

“And next on the show... Boom! Is that what I think it is? What the mushroom? But it couldn't b... Ahh!”

Guys, that was just a recording from August 6th, 1945, the day the U.S. bombed Hiroshima. Why bomb Hiroshima, and how did it worked? We’ll have to start from the beginning.

It started with Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in WWII, which the U.S. took vengeance on with their newly made atom(ic) bombs, and bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the war. So August 6th was made Hiroshima Day, to remember the incident.

The atom bomb (invented by J. Robert Oppenheimer) worked as a chain reaction. When a neutron strikes an atom’s nucleus, it causes it to split. And according to Einstein's E=Mc2, there is energy that bonded them together, so it makes more neutrons, making it go on.

In a tube, it's put into containers, and when the time's right, put together, making the “Boom”.

And that's today, bye!