history 138w-38 | Why did Truman use the atomic bomb against Japan? What did his decision say about priorities of American foreign policy? | Truman decision and reasons behind deployment of the atomic bomb | | Min Yong Jung | 11/2/2010 | | Harry S. Truman‚ the 33rd President of the United States‚ deployed the atomic bomb on Japan to ensure the end of the Pacific War with minimal US casualties. Upon rejection of the Potsdam Declaration and calls for unconditional surrender by the Japanese
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tough decision right‚but if you were in charge of either losing millions or losing Hundred thousands of people what would you do!Well President Truman was in this position and he did not choose wrong. President truman was justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- During the Winter of 1941 something very sad and depressing happened.The day was december seventhth and this was no
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long it was sitting in the room). The bucket was then placed in the calorimeter in a certain way. At the bottom of the bucket‚ there were 3 “dents” which were aligned with the dents at the bottom of the calorimeter jacket (#14). The oxygen combustion bomb (#15) was then opened and roughly 10 cm of the wire (metal wire provided by the instructor) was cut and attached to the arms of the cup so the pellet of choosing (which was either the Naphthalene or the Benzoic Acid) would ignite with the wire and
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Experiment 3: Resonance Energy of Naphthalene by Bomb Calorimetry Cameron Fowler CHEM 457: Lab Section 4 Submitted: 11/4/10 Lab Group #3: Michael Hyle Neil Baranik Tim Riley Abstract: The enthalpy of combustion of naphthalene was experimentally determined to be -5030.44 ± 78.98 kJ/mol which was a 2.5% error from the literature value of -5160 ± 20 kJ/mol.2 The theoretical enthalpy of combustion of solid naphthalene was calculated to be -6862.68 kJ/mol using bond energies for the gaseous
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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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Marshall Islands: Atomic Bomb Testing AN350 - Usha Prasad Chaminade University Introduction This paper explores the documentation of the claims for diseases that were caused by nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. Many suggest that cancer and other diseases in these islands have been caused by the nuclear testing in the Pacific. I chose this topic because I was always interested in the overall culture of the Marshall Islands. I was raised in Guam‚ a United States
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Decision to Drop Atomic Bombs The Justification behind the Detonation of The Little Boy and The Fat Man How could anyone possibly justify a decision that would result in over 265‚000 potentially innocent people losing their lives? Justifications like this have been made throughout history by evil leaders with mal-intentions‚ or by psychopathic fundamentalists‚ but never by a governmental organization as respected and trusted as the United States. How is it possible that the most financially
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the night of the 9/10 March 1945‚ the US air force bombed Tokyo‚ with incendiary (fire) bombs. As Japan’s air force had been almost obliterated by March 1945‚ the US B29 bombers flew over Tokyo with no opposition from the Japanese Air Force meaning that Americans could drop all their weapons on Tokyo causing optimal damage to the Capital of Japan. As most of Tokyo’s buildings were made of wood‚ the incendiary bombs burned the city down causing the deaths of around 100‚000 people14. The most well-known
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“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.“ The atomic bomb was a crucial And an enormous event in history. People’s actions can affect everyone; good or bad. Globally‚ the atom bomb affected everyone socially‚ economically‚ psychologically. To start with‚ it was the only nuclear attack in history and was known as “The Manhattan Project” because they were committed to speeding up the process in which They would build an atomic bomb. They dropped nuclear weapons on Japanese cities of Nagasaki and
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Niels Bohr’s model of the hydrogen atom‚ was the primary reason for the understanding of energy levels.Bohr was able to explain the bright line spectrum of hydrogen. Sparked by the recent discovery of the diffraction patterns‚ scientists believed electrons could be described as waves. Bohr hypothesized that energy is being added to the hydrogen gas in the electricity form‚ and then leaving the gas in the form of light. He figured the light rays to be quantized‚ meaning only certain frequencies of
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