Dropping the Atomic Bomb: Was it really necessary? In 1945‚ the United States with help from Canada‚ released a new force into unsuspecting Japan which shocked the world. It was the weapon the Manhattan project spent months working on while spending approximately $20 billion. It used up to 12% of America’s electricity during the war even though many people did not know what they were working on. It was a weapon so powerful that many heads of this project feared it would go terribly wrong. It would
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For my egg drop project I made a contraption with a garbage bag‚ yarn‚ cardboard‚ Popsicle sticks‚ and hot glue. First I cut a medium sized square out of cardboard. Then I stuck Popsicle sticks in the shape of a square with three sticks on each side. After that the sticks were hot glued to the card board from top and bottom. And in order for the egg to be seen from the bottom I had to cut a circular hole into the bottom of the piece of cardboard. To suspend the egg I made a rubber band net. First
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cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with newly developed‚ top secret atomic bombs. In the many years following this event‚ arguments have transpired as to whether this action was ethical‚ and whether it was really necessary to end World War II quickly. However‚ due to the wartime situation and Japan’s extreme cruelty‚ the United States were predominantly justified in their decision to drop the atomic bombs. Dropping the atomic bombs in Japan was a strategic method to finish the Second World War‚ and to
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poem‚ “Diameter of the Bomb”‚ written by Yehuda Amichai‚ illustrates how the intuition of war and a single act of violence resounds through history‚ encompassing the whole world and God with it. The poem initiates as the poet enumerates the characteristics of the bomb. Details about the size of the bomb‚ its effective radius‚ the number of casualties‚ then slowly the details become people‚ the statistics turn human‚ and we are shown the real human cost of terrorism. The bomb is epitomized as grasping
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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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President Truman made the correct decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. There were various events that led to his correct decision starting with Albert Einstein’s letter to President Roosevelt. In his letter‚ Einstein warned President Roosevelt that Germany might develop and use atomic bombs. These bombs were capable of mass destruction because of the energy released by the splitting of atomic nuclei. When a single free neutron strikes the nucleus of an atom of radioactive material
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The Use of the Atomic Bomb The Manhattan Project was a secretive project created by the government to get ahead in the push for a nuclear bomb. After its completion‚ the atomic bomb was secretly tested in the New Mexico desert. The bomb was a success and next came the hardest decision of Harry S. Truman’s life. He was president at the time and he had to decide whether or not the bomb should be dropped. He had to account for the civilian’s lives‚ but also had to think about the outcome of the war
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exposed to what happened leading to the dropping of the bomb. Some believe that the droppings were justified‚ because if the bombs weren’t dropped‚ there would have been more battles and even more deaths than the bombs combined. Another reason some would agree is to show the world what this weapon really does. Others may think that the bomb was one of the worst event that has ever happened to our world because of how many innocent lives the bomb took and how the threat of nuclear warfare is now always
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first atomic bomb used in warfare on the Japanese city of Hiroshima‚ and then on August the 9th‚President Truman announced “sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy” and then on August the 9th three days later another American bomber plane dropped the second bomb on the industrial section of the city of Nagasaki‚ these two bombed completely destroyed most of the cities. There were lots of consequences of the bomb being dropped
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Dropping of the Atomic Bomb “On August 16‚ 1945‚ Enola Gray‚ a U.S. bomber‚ dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima‚ Japan‚ and three days later‚ a second atomic bomb destroyed the city of Nagasaki” (Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Many people argue whether or not these bombings were ethical and legal. The U.S. killed innocent people in order to “break the morale” of the Japanese population. The U.S. also broke many of the statements in the “Just War” doctrine. Theses bombings caused many people to face harmful
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