Tsutomu Yamaguchiwas on a business trip to Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 when the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy on the city. He survived the explosion was temporarily blind and deaf. Three days later Yamaguchi travelled back home to Nagasaki where the second bomb, dubbed Fat Man, was dropped. Yamaguchi is the only man officially recognized by the Japanese Government to have survived both bombings.
The world reached its nuclear weapon inventory peak in 1966, when the globe had 32, 193.

The US Government has paid $759 million since 1956 to the people of the Marshall Islands to make up for testing nuclear weapons there.

Over 75 secret bunkers have built for the President of the United States for use during or after nuclear war.

The United States has lost 11 nuclear weapons and has absolutely no idea where they are.

The US Federal Reserve has over $2 trillion locked away for use after a nuclear war.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, you’ll produce enough gas to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

One kilo of uranium-235, the material used to make nuclear bombs, releases the same amount of energy as 17,000 tons of dynamite.

Harry Truman, the American President who ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki knew absolutely nothing about the nuclear program until he became President.

The B-29 bomber that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki was called the Bock’s Car.

Nagasaki wasn’t the Bock’s Car planned target. The bomber was supposed to attack a small town called Kokura but it was surrounded by smog at the time. Bock’s Car was ordered only to attack a clear target so it moved onto Nagasaki, the first alternate target city..

The nuclear bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki made extinct a rare species of pigeon that’s not found anywhere else in the world.
The people who survived the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known as the hibakusha or “explosion-affected people.”  As of March 2008, the Japanese Government officially recognizes 243,692 hibakusha.

Experts say there are approximately 23,360 nuclear weapons around the world. 13,000 of these are in Russia and 9,400 are the United States.

The creators of the Hiroshima bomb were so confident that it would work that they never tested the bomb itself.

Source: Brookings Institute, others