Chemical properties. Calcium is a moderately active element. It reacts readily with oxygen to form calcium oxide (CaO): Calcium reacts with the halogensâ fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine, The halogens are the elements that make up Group 17 (VIIA) of the periodic table.
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6, 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later a second atomic bomb (Fat Man) was dropped on the city of Nagasaki.These were the only times nuclear weapons have been used in war.Reasons for the bombing.Many reasons are given as to why the US administration decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Reasons include the following: 1  The United States wanted to force Japan's surrender as quickly as possible to minimize American casualties.hese were the only times nuclear weapons have been used in war. Reasons for the bombing. Many reasons are given as to why the US administration decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A Photo-Essay on the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hiroshima. Committee on Damage by Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings (London, 1981). Nagasaki, Japanese city on which the second operational atomic bomb was dropped.Nicknamed 'Fat Man' (a reference to Churchill), the bomb, which used plutonium 239, was dropped by parachute at 1102 on 9 August by an American B29 bomber from the Pacific island of Tinian.hoto by US Army The huge atomic cloud 6 August, 1945. A Uranium bomb, the first nuclear weapon in the world, was dropped in Hiroshima City. It was estimated that its energy was equivalent to 15 kilotons of TNT.