Democritus (460 B.C.) - an Ancient Greek philosopher who was born in Abdera‚ Thrace‚ Greece. He was an influential philosopher who formulated an atomic theory for the universe. Antoine Lavoisier (1778 & 1783) - A French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century Chemical Revolution and a large influence on both the histories of chemistry and biology. He recognized and named oxygen in 1778 and hydrogen in 1783 Joseph Louis Proust (1799) - a French chemist which discovered each pure compound
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American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima‚...That bomb had more power than 20‚000 tons of TNT...which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare”. By the summer of 1945‚ millions of soldiers and citizens of the world had died after years of fighting in the Second World War. Although Europe’s involvement in the war had come to an end‚ the War in the Pacific between the United States and Japan had not found its conclusion. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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heard 100 miles away. The world’s first atomic bomb had just exploded. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the United States nuclear development project. It was lead by Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer‚ who was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The program was hurried along after the United States government saw the importance and possibilities of the atomic bomb.
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left dead (Rossenfeld‚ n.d.). The causes of all of this were two atomic bombs dropped by the United States. At first glance‚ it may seem that dropping these two bombs was a terrible and horrific thing to do. However‚ the use of atomic weaponry was actually a necessity in how well our conflict with Japan played out. Without the bombs‚ we would have fought longer‚ and more lives would have been lost. Dropping the atomic bombs on
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humanity to the truth. Kant’s theory is based solely on the duty of ones action‚ whether one chooses to be good or not; their consequence does not matter. I believe the Kantian theory would be an interesting and effective way to analyze the “Ticking Time Bomb” case by
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Did the USA need to drop bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? On the 6th of August 1945‚ the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima‚1ushering in the nuclear age. The bomb caused the deaths of over 100‚000 people‚2with the bulk of the destruction pertaining to innocent civilians. Three days later‚ the Americans repeated their action at Nagasaki. The aim of the US was not‚ however‚ to cause complete annihilation of the Japanese‚ but to seize the fierce nationalism within
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American theoretical physicist and professor for the University of California at Berkeley. During WWII‚ he was appointed as the head of the Los Alamos Laboratory where he played a crucial role in the development of the atomic bomb and gained the nickname "The Father of the Atomic Bomb". After the war‚ he was appointed the chairman of the General Advisory Energy Commission and served as a prominent voice on the use of nuclear weaponry until passed away at age 62‚ due to cancer‚ in 1967. Oppenheimer was
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has always‚ and most likely will always place a high value on American lives. In order to protect these lives and to insure that the world is safe for democracy‚ American leaders had to make a very tough decision‚ whether or not to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. This act would essentially be trading Japanese lives for American lives. The Japanese‚ who were the aggressors‚ much like the Germans‚ were not sympathized with. They were responsible for hundreds of thousands of American casualties in the
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Was the dropping of the atomic bombs justified? I have carefully selected six different sources which are either for or against the USA dropping the bombs on Japan. I have tried to find ones which support or oppose the dropping for their own separate reason. Source 4 is against the dropping of the bomb. It is an eye-witness account from a five year old girl; I think this is a reliable source because a five year old girl has no reason to lie about the events. It is sad because a girl of that age
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another. Their skin was blackened‚ hair singed‚ and clothing ripped to shreds. One of the men was Wilhelm Keitel‚ a Nazi general. The other‚ Adolf Hitler‚ the Führer himself‚ could be heard muttering‚ “What was that? I am alive‚ I am alive!” (The 20 July Bomb Plot). There were many German military officials involved in the coup d’état plot to assassinate Hitler. The 20th of July Plot was organized by disgruntled German military in 1944 in order to assassinate Hitler and attempt a coup‚ but it was unsuccessful
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