Bottom: Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima. 9,700 pounds. Blast yield 15 kilotons of TNT. Top: Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki. 10,300 pounds. Blast yield 21 kilotons of TNT.
ICBMs now carry thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs. ) Warheads yield blasts tens of times more powerful and can weigh as little as 800 pounds.
May 1945, the division of Germany by the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union.The wall was not built until 1961.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Check Point Charlie.
President Kennedy; Willy Brandt, mayor of Berlin at that time, later chancellor; Chancellor Adenauer.
Yadegar Assisi’s panorama of the wall.
