Bomb Monologue “The United States would not have succeeded without me!” I was heavily involved in WWII after Pearl Harbor where Japan did a surprise attack. I also helped the other world leaders to victory against Germany. And‚ I created the U-Committee to make the first atomic bomb‚ and the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ Japan which killed many people. I am the president so I made all of the decisions about the process of the bomb‚ and I declared war on Japan which made the Allies
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The use of the atomic bomb remains controversial to this day. There are academics and policy makers of the time that still disagree on the whether it was justifiable to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They debate if it truly was in the interest of ending the war sooner and with less loss of life. Several issues played together to help form the opinion that Truman acted for more nefarious purposes. Domestic as well as international politics is said to have played a role in the decision of Truman
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official statement in December declaring a new weapon of mass destruction has been added to their arsenal: the Hydrogen bomb. In a statement released by a North Korean news agency on Tuesday‚ it was made clear that “the regime’s scientists are in high spirits to detonate H-bombs‚ capable of wiping out the whole territory of the US at once” (Vale). The testing of their alleged H-bomb was said to have occurred last Wednesday. Does North Korea have the right to possess nuclear weapons such as these? Kim
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information about the Manhattan project and the development of the atom bomb‚ the importance and value of the information that he gave the Russians is unfathomable. “By handing over the secret of the plutonium bomb and implosion to the Soviets‚ Fuchs allowed the Soviet bomb project to skip the length and astounding expensive development stage that had led the Manhattan project to that solution.” Fuchs alone sped the Soviet Union’s atomic bomb program up by months allowing them to skip months of expensive
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Atomic Bomb was dropped on Nagasaki‚ and only three days earlier the first was seen in Hiroshima. These were two of the numerous events that propelled the most powerful combatants in history‚ the United States and Soviet Union‚ into the dangerous arms race we know as the Cold War. Many ask‚ “Was it necessary?” This is a controversial topic‚ asking whether or not the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians was worth saving a much smaller number of military personnel‚ or if the bomb should
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July 16th‚ 1945‚ a test bomb was successfully detonated at a test bomb site in Alamogordo‚ New Mexico. Months later‚ on August 6th‚ 1945‚ the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9th‚ 1945‚ a second atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. In my opinion‚ the dropping of the atomic bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” on Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ was not justified. I believe it was not justified because of the effect it had on innocent civilians
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After the shift in power from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to President Harry S. Truman in the middle of the most intense war the United States has faced up to that point in time‚ there was still much to settle in the Second World War. The United States was still heavily involved with finishing the battle with the Japanese in the Pacific‚ and there seemed to be no clear end. However‚ after experimenting for years with the Manhattan Project‚ the military was able to develop a nuclear weapon for
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Project he knew what he was saying. Especially since he knew the destructive force of the weapon he helped create. Although it was not the first‚ the atomic bomb was a weapon that the world had never seen before. With the ability to wipe out an area in seconds and leave that said area in shambles for years later. This power gave the atomic bomb the title of a weapon of mass destruction. Even though they are one of the newest threats to the world; weapons of mass destruction are the most dangerous and
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The Atomic Bomb The atomic bomb is a powerful‚ explosive nuclear weapon. It is fueled by the fission of the nuclei of specific amounts of plutonium or uranium‚ in a chain reaction. The strength of the explosion created by one of these bombs is equal to the strength of an explosion created by thousands of tons of TNT. The atomic bomb was first created in the early twentieth century. Physicists in the United States and Europe had discovered that the fission of uranium could be used to create
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Assignment #2 The Texas Tribune‚ August‚ 4th‚ 2016‚ Opinion: In Dirty Bomb Prevention‚ Texas Fails a Crucial Test The article brings to light how accessible it is to gather components to build a dirty bomb considering the current laws and regulations set by the federal and state government. In the first week of August 1945‚ the world saw the first and only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. America’s use of the atomic bombs on Japan‚ resulted in the death of over 130‚000 people and caused unpredicted
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