whether to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki arose. The choice of dropping the atomic bomb was historically important because it was the stop of World War II. The impact and radiation of the bombs killed hundreds of thousands of people. If these bombs weren’t dropped on the Japanese, the history of the world would have been changed forever. The Atomic bomb took 6 years to develop (1939-1945) for scientists to work on an equation to make Uranium-235 into a bomb. The bombs used on the cities
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Atomic Bomb Paper Thesis: The factors leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb was to end the war quickly, prevent Russian expansion into Asia, and to induce surrender upon Japan. In a quick feat, to try to end the war quicker the Manhattan Project is introduced by the United States. Many scientists then begin work on nuclear research and later turn into the building of an atomic bomb. The first of two atomic bombs were dropped on August 6, 1945 on Hiroshima
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world to take its first step into the atomic era: without any warning, an American plane dropped a single nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. About 90,000 people were killed immediately after the bomb hit; another 40,000 were injured, and many of whom died in unfathomable agony from the radiation sickness. Three days later, a second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki killed some 37,000 people and injured another 43,000. Together the two bombs eventually killed an estimated total of
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were supposed to unit china , but instead they killed off any human that stood in their way or refused to the new generation revolution. ******************************************************************************** End Of WWII And Droping Atomic Bombs On Japan · After World War II, the world was divided into two blocks: communist Eastern block and capitalist western block. Leader of Eastern Block was Soviet Union and the leader of western block was United States. So there were two
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II in 1945, two atomic bombings occurred in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The countries that made up the Allies planned on invading Japan in what they called Operation Downfall. The United States gave Japan an ultimatum to surrender in the Potsdam Declaration or else they would destroy Japan. The Japanese government, however, ignored this ultimatum. Two nuclear weapons that were developed during the Manhattan Project were put to use. On August 6, 1945, the bomb called “Little
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The atomic bomb. Some call it a nuke, or an atom bomb. Well its all the same earth corrupting, mind blowing explosion. Now you may be asking yourself “well what does this have to do with Canada?” , well just read on you anxious young person! It all started in 1939 on August 2nd, just before the beginning of WW1 when Albert Einstein wrote to the president of the USA (President Roosevelt) to tell him to preserve Uranium -235 (The main ingredient in a atomic bomb) to make an atomic bomb for the war
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Justifying the Atomic Bomb Through the United States’ isolationism caused by the Great Depression dictators arose across the sea in Europe. While the dictators rose in Europe so did Japan. Having opened up to foreign trade, it began to quickly catch up to other international superpowers. This exponential growth in trade caused Japan to pick up speed and begin to search for more land to gain resources for its growing population. As many know the United States was dragged out of the Great Depression
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The atomic bomb was originally conceived as counter method when Albert Einstein sent letters to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the early stages of World War 2 as a counter-method to the attempts of Nazi scientists who were supposedly working on their own version of the bomb. In all actuality, the project had long been discarded by the Nazis as it was deemed impractical in the early
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" recalled General L. R. Groves of Oppenheimer, in a memorandum for Secretary of War George Marshall. The explosion, which carried more power than 20,000 tons of TNT and was visible for more than 200 miles, had succeeded. The world's first atomic bomb had been detonated. With the advent of the nuclear age, new dilemmas in the art of warfare arose. The war in Europe had concluded in May. The Pacific war would receive full attention from the United States War Department. As late as May 1945
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4/16/13 The Atomic Bombs The Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th of 1945 at the closing of World War Two. The two bombs were the only ever nuclear weapons used in war to date. It destroyed many Japanese cities, caused 90,000–166,000 deaths in Hiroshima, and 60,000–80,000 deaths in Nagasaki. About half of the deaths occurred on the first day, the rest from radiation sickness and with other illnesses. Six days after the last bombing Japan surrendered to the
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looking to end WWII as quickly as possible. As much debate as there was, the final decision had to be made by President Harry Truman. For months the world waited eagerly for the decision that would change everyone’s lives. Truman’s plan to drop the atomic bombs over Japan was absolutely justified. Every president’s main concern during wartime is to save lives and end the war as soon as possible. The United States had already put in billions of dollars into this technology, and they knew there was a really
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WWII: The Atomic Bomb The Second World War was the largest war the world had ever seen. It lasted 6 years from 1939 – 1945 and killed millions. Japan and America began fighting in the Pacific Ocean. America began secretly building a new type of bomb; this was called the Manhattan project. This bomb commonly known now as an atomic bomb could lay waste to whole cities and vaporize anyone instantly who was standing within 1 square kilometer. The Japanese had initiated a surprise st attack on Pearl Harbour that took place on December
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The Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan On August 6, 1945, approximately 8:15 a.m. local time, the lives of millions of people living in Japan changed forever. About four years after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on them, Fat Man and Little Boy. The effects on the country and the citizens were horrendous and still live on today. On December 7, 1941 the United States was suddenly, and deliberately attacked by Japan. The results were disastrous
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Atomic bombs first draft The atomic bombs that were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn’t only been dropped for purposes of destroying lives for the Japanese but instead were dropped because of the Japanese disobeying the peace treaties, not surrendering and it ended the bomb ended the war in less than a week also the cost was far less. The war had killed many innocents lives and among them American lives in Pearl Harbor. These bombs saved the lives of many other innocents that Germany and
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use of the atomic bomb on Japan. On December 7th 1941, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor. The United States could no longer remain neutral, instead the US was forced into the war. The United States then used a strategy known as Island Hopping. This strategy proved to be effective for the United States but they had to overcome many obstacles. After President Truman went over the pros and cons of his plan, he decided to end the war in August of 1945 by dropping the atomic bomb on the cities
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decision to drop two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in hopes to put an end to World War II. The Japanese government denied the Allies’ demand for surrender, so the Japanese were threatened to surrender or the Allies would reign utter destruction on them. Japan refused again, and America sent one atomic bomb which did not end in unconditional surrender of Japan. Therefore, America detonated another bomb on Nagasaki which ended in Japan’s surrender. The bombs killed many immediately
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Riley Boag Atomic Bomb Fishbowl Discussion World History Period 5 Opinion (1st Bomb) yes bomb no bomb The atomic bomb most definitely should have been used. In a X journal entry by Karl T. Compton, he states that an interrogated japanese army officer said that had the bomb not been dropped the japanese army would have kept fighting. In the words of the prisoner, ¨We would have kept on fighting until all Japanese were killed, but we would not have been defeated.¨ To put this in perspective
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July 16, 1945, the most terrible weapon ever known in human history, a bomb that could destroy a whole city, was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. There was a blinding flash of light that was visible for up to 200 miles, a mushroom cloud that reached around 40,000 feet in the air, blowing out windows of many people's homes up to 100 miles away, and when the cloud lifted it revealed a crater that was about a half-mile wide where the sand was turned into glass. The energy of a nuclear explosion is
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II, America dropped the first Atomic bomb on a Japanese city, Hiroshima. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Even after about sixty-five years, the atomic bomb droppings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still a heated point of controversy. There are many debates on whether the A-bomb droppings were the right decision.WWII was a tough fight and all countries involved were struggling. If this were my decision, I would have dropped the atomic bombs because they were necessary to
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Atomic Bomb A fateful decision that I believe to be a great example of the expression, “Crossing the Rubicon,” was the decision to drop the atomic bombs onto Hiroshima and Nagasaki. President Harry S. Truman of the United States is the man behind this decision in which changed the world forever. The decision to drop the two atomic bombs onto the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a decision that not only had direct effects on ending the war in the Pacific during World War II, but still
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Ethical Dilemma Paper There are multiple debates about the Atomic Bombing on Hiroshima, Japan. Was the bombing morally right or was it the wrong decision? It all depends on how one looks at the situation. When it comes the decision to take lives of other people to save another can be a turning point on one’s emotions because one must think about all the multiple outcomes it may cause. The bombing helped show that the United States had the power to support the country, it helped the war end sooner
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In early August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly yielded the surrender of Japan and the end of American involvement in World War II. By 1946 the two bombs caused the death of perhaps as many as 240,000 Japanese citizens1. The popular, or traditional, view that dominated the 1950s and 60s put forth by President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson was that the dropping of the bomb was a diplomatic maneuver aimed
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Japan in WWII by the USA was unjustified In WWII, the nuclear bombing by the USA was an injust crime against Japan. On August the 6th of 1945, the Americans dropped a uranium bomb, ‘Little boy’ on Hiroshima and dropped another bomb on the 9th of August, ‘Fat man’, on Nagasaki. This action was unreasonable as the nuclear bomb was purposely made to end the war sooner so the Japanese could surrender, even though they were bound to anyway. This weapon killed and suffered many innocent civilians that did
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Why did the Truman Administration decide to drop the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945? There has been much debate as to why Truman elected to drop the atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945. Historians have long debated the true purpose to which the atomic bombs were designed to fulfil upon there deployment. The Alperovitz thesis of the 1960 was accepted for many years. The thesis revolved around the idea that the atomic weapons were deployed as diplomatic tools to intimidate
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themselves were not all for one notion, but two. To have supported and thought well of the Manhattan Project and its success, or the complete loathing of the project and its intensions, thinking that the outcome of the bombs were unnecessary. For example, this quote “The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment. . . . It was a mistake to ever drop it. . . . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it.” Was said by Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., A Commander
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devastating weapon. Minutes later, that weapon- the Atomic Bomb- detonated the sky, killing some 70,000 Japanese civilians. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second bomb over the city of Nagasaki, with similar results. The following week, Japan’s emperor announced to his city the decision to surrender, via radio. Though this brought World War II to its dramatic conclusion, there’s still ongoing debate wether or not the U.S. was justified in using the atomic bomb to end WWII. I believe that the United States
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Like yourself, I also questioned whether the outcome would have been different had we not used the atomic bombs. I have been doing some research on it and some say that we saved lives by dropping the bombs (the video posted below says this as well) however other information says that it was necessary. According to our literature, " By early 1945, victory over Japan was in sight" ( Henretta, Hinderaker, Edwards, & Self, 2015, p. 719). This leads be tobeleive that perhaps we could have gone without
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A-Bomb Society and Environment During the early stages of World War II, which occurred around the mid 20th century, there was booming bust with exploration and research of nuclear bombs. However only the leading and powerful countries adapted this and one powerful country in particular – America. When the Allies were fighting of the Axis in the west, America did not bother in joining the fight, as they did not want to get involved in the war. However Japan had different thoughts for America
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of the atomic bomb was born. America’s top physicists and scientists joined forces to develop an atomic bomb before their enemies and succeeded. They proceeded to drop their atomic bomb on Hiroshima and another on Nagasaki. This decision to drop atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not a military necessity, because it slaughtered thousands of the innocent, developed the capability of wiping out the human race, and did not end the war. First and foremost, the atomic bombs slaughtered
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dropping of atomic bomb on on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had happened more than 70 years, the morality of its action is a hot issue among the people in contemporary society. The atomic bomb that was used by the United States against Japan in 1945 had significantly impacted and shocked the world. The impacts that were caused by the bombing of atomic bomb can be divided by two categories, which are health effects and destructive effects. Firstly, about 130,000 people had died by the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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