The ultimate decision on where to drop the bomb was Hiroshima. Hiroshima was primary target due to it being largely untouched by bomb raids and the bombs effects could clearly be measured. Taking this in account‚ visual‚ instead of radar‚ bombing would be used to drop the bomb that way pictures of the bombs damage could be taken. President Truman had hoped for a true military target to drop the bomb on‚ going back to the whole principal of revenge‚ but some advisors believed
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The first atom bomb used in warfare was dropped on Japan‚ Hiroshima‚ a city in the south of the main Island of Honshu‚ was the target in this first use. Most of the buildings were destroyed and 80‚000 people were killed instantly The first atomic bomb to be used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6‚ 1945. Few knew what the effects would be. There had been only one other bomb of this kind previously detonated. The destruction unleashed on the city was total. About 70 percent of all buildings
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Albert Einstein was great scientist who help many right now people who made the atomic bomb move by sending a letter to the president franklin roosevelt saying that they should build the bomb. Albert made many things like the famous equation E=mc2 and had the theory of relativity. Albert Einstein was born march 14‚1879 in ulm germany Europe and moved to munich with his jewish parents and attended munich elementary school. Albert Einstein did good in mathematics and science and did poorly in other
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what they knew to grow‚ and eventually leave their mark on the world. The father of the atomic bomb and head of the Manhattan Project was no exception. Robert Oppenheimer challenged his upbringing and the society around him to become his own person. He supported the first use of the atomic bomb on an actual target‚ despite the possible moral concerns with that‚ as well as opposing the development of the hydrogen bomb. Lastly‚ Oppenheimer had relations with multiple members of the Communist Party‚ despite
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ultimatum was delivered to Japan by the United States: surrender or be destroyed. On August 6th‚ 1945 the United States military dropped the first atomic bomb as an act of war on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. 3 days later‚ the second and last to date‚ atomic bomb was dropped onto Nagasaki‚ Japan. Under the direction of President Harry Truman‚ the atomic bombs were dropped in response to the disregarded ultimatum demanding the surrender of Japan in World War II. 150‚000 to 246‚000 people died in Hiroshima
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291 5 May 2014 Were the Atomic Bombs Used in World War II Justified? The research of the atomic bomb was brought up to President Roosevelt during World War II by Albert Einstein who had fled from Germany and Enrico Fermi‚ who also fled Italy. They both knew how about the atomic technology being researched by the Axis powers and both agreed that the President of the United States should know about it. This information is what started the effort and design of the atomic bomb known as‚ the Manhattan
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb On August 6‚ 1945‚ President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima‚ Japan. Then on August 9‚ 1945‚ Truman ordered a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki‚ Japan. These two decisions were based the war timeline‚ war casualties‚ the successful completion of atomic bomb testing‚ the war experience with Japan‚ and the political conditions related to potential Russian claims on Japan. The atomic bomb decision was primarily driven by the weariness of
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Through the estimated casualties we could find that the people died in the land invasion were much higher than dropping atomic bombs in Japan. So‚ using the atomic bomb was the decision that had to do to save many lives. Furthermore‚ the decision to use atomic bombs was desired to save not only American lives but also Japanese soldiers’ lives and civilians’ lives too because Japanese civilians intended to continue to fight if there was an invasion of homeland. If the U.S invasion happened and lasted
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would try it out also. They did some experiments‚ and when they figured out that Japan was building a bomb bigger than any other bomb in the world they decided that they had to build it first. So they got everybody that they thought could be helpful‚ They had scientists from all of the different countries that made up the allies working on making this weapon. The first attempts to build this bomb did not work at all. So they concentrated the uranium a lot more‚ and they started getting there.
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Should the USA have used the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945? 1945 began as a year of increasing tensions between countries as the war extended onto its sixth year. Military groups of the various countries involved were now beginning to seriously consider the conclusion of the war in terms of how the global ceasefire would be carried out and frankly‚ who would win. After the defeat of the Axis Powers in Europe‚ the focus had been turned towards the war in Asia and the Pacific Regions in which the Allied
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