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‚ tedious‚ and resource consuming work. “With the great deal of information stolen by Soviet spies‚ the question of its usefulness and applicability
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Atomic bombs were the first nuclear weapons to be developed‚ tested‚ and used. In the late 1930s physicists in Europe and the United States realized that the fission of uranium could be used to create an extremely powerful explosive weapon. In August 1939‚ German American physicist Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt that described this discovery and warned of its potential development by other nations. The U.S. government established the top secret Manhattan Project
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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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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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bombing and blockade until Japan surrenders. 2. Invade Japan. 3. Redefine “unconditional surrender” in such a way to induce Japanese Government to surrender. 4. Frighten Japan into surrendering with revolutionary weapons (i.e. the atomic bomb). Dropping atomic bombs‚ Little Boy and Fat Man‚ on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was legitimate and necessary to defeat Japan because it was the quickest and most effective option to induce Japan to surrender‚ prevent further destruction of the Japanese mainland
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wars‚ or battles. A battle is brutal with lots of death and destruction but at times it’s necessary to accomplish the goal of ending a war. The USA will do whatever they can to protect their people like inventing the atomic bomb which they used to end World War 2. To drop the atomic bombs to stop the war they used the planes “Enola Gay” and “Bockscar”.(atomcentral) The first bomb was “Little Boy” was carried by Enola Gay while “Fat Man” was carried by Bockscar.(atomcentral) Little Boy was the first
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A few years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor‚ Truman and the US military responded with dropping two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hard decisions were made with this war strategy and some important lessons were learned from this. Based on the circumstances‚ the US was justified in military action against Japan‚ however; dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki shouldn’t have happened. Thousands Civilians were killed over two cities of no real importance in gaining ground
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In 1946 less than a year after the Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ John Hersey wrote a book that tells the stories of six different survivors of the bomb. He tells about what was happing right before the bomb was dropped‚ how they survived and tracked their lives after this tragic event. Reading through this amazing description on Hiroshima has been the only time I am not proud to be an American. Seeing the devastation that was caused by the Country I call home was really hard. Countless lives
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Chemistry 2500- Exercise C4 The Emission Spectrum of Atomic Hydrogen Objective The purpose of this lab was to calculate an experimental value for the Rydberg constant and then the ionization energy for the hydrogen atom. These values will be obtained by using a prism spectrograph to measure the wavelength value for a section of the visible line spectrum of atomic hydrogen. Theoretical Background When H+ combines with an electron it forms it’s excited state‚ H. This excited atom
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Logann Stambaugh Mrs. Kohn English II 24 March 2014 Final Copy Atomic Bombing The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still considered two of the most devastating bombings ever seen in mankind. There is uncertainty over the rationality and judgment of President Truman’s reasons for releasing the bombs‚ as well as the thought process on the mortality of the situation. However‚ there is no doubt that this was a difficult decision to make. The United States is still paying for this cataclysmic
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