Essential Question: How did nuclear weapons impact the United States in World War 2?
Guided Question 1: How could nuclear weapons impact and prevent war?
Guided Question 2: How did the use of nuclear weapons affect the outcome of World War 2?
Guided Question 3: How did the use of nuclear weapons affect the political success of the United States during World War 2?
Guided Question 4: How did the use of nuclear weapons affect the economic success of the United States during World War 2?
The United States was the first country to produce nuclear weapons, and is the only country to have used them in any type of warfare. Before and during the Cold War, the United States conducted over a thousand nuclear tests and developed many long-range weapon delivery systems with the help of many nuclear scientists. The United States not only used the nuclear weapons to end the war, but also to stop the economic and political crisis occurring. The country has been at war for some years and troops were dying on the battlefield. When FDR thought of the idea to use a nuclear bomb against Japan it seemed almost impossible to create and detonate over Japan. The impact they wanted was for other countries to realize that they are powerful and to stop the war with Japan and Germany.
Ever since the nuclear revolution, the effect of nuclear weapons on the causes and events of war has requested debate. Today, political figures have come to a conclusion that nuclear weapons, when in the hands of biased leaders, can have a large effect on the outcome of a war. In that case, could the presence of nuclear weapons in Europe, Japan and the United States have kept World War II from breaking out? Due to both Hitler's great ambitions, and France and Britain's guidelines of winning, the presence of nuclear weapons would not have a large effect on the causes of the