On May 7‚ 1945 Germany surrenders‚ and as Germany falls Hitler committed suicide thus ending the war in Europe. Several months later and after many American deaths President Truman decides to drop atomic bombs on Japan. According to Joel Wooton the first bomb known as “little boy” was dropped August 6‚ 1945 on Hiroshima‚ Japan. “Hiroshima‚ Japan was chosen to be bombed because it was the only city out of the 7 they had saved to bomb that one wasn’t under a lot of cloud cover.” (Wooton) They dropped
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In 1945‚ when the atomic bomb was dropped in Japan I felt that it was not justified. Even though it saved thousands of American lives it was at the cost of others lives. The United States could have gave the Japanese a warning before dropping not one‚ but two bombs on them. However‚ the Japanese did not surrender until after the second bomb I think a warning would have made the bombing “justified.” To begin with‚ even though the United States and Japan were at war and were protected their own citizens
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On July 29th 1957‚ the United Nations established an autonomous international organization called the International Atomic Energy Agency that would to promote the use of nuclear energy for peaceful reasons‚ insure nuclear safety‚ and retrain the usage of nuclear power for military and strategic purposes such as nuclear weapons. The IAEA is an independent intergovernmental‚ science and technology based organization that is a part of the United Nations and serves as the global focal point for nuclear
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temperature on the rate of the iodine clock reaction using ammonium persulfate Assessment criteria: Design Variables: Table 1.1: List of dependent and independent variables. S.No | Dependent variables | Independent variables | Controlled variables | 1. | Rate of reaction | Temperature | Concentration | 2. | - | - | Pressure | 3. | - | - | Volume | Hypothesis: The iodine clock reaction is an experiment that demonstrates
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I. Manhatten Project (C)before German & Japanese‚ Pearl Harbor opportunity‚ Japan already defeat‚ Hiroshima (70‚000)‚ Nagasaki (40‚000)‚ “complete destruction” “utter destruction” a. Through many see the bombing as immoral‚ the atomic bombings actually saved lives of both Japanese and U.S. people‚ weakened Japan who wasn’t as innocent as many believed‚ and ended the devastating WW II. II. Save many lives a. U.S.A. i. No invasion of Japan ii. Many casualties: battles
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Introduction Twelve O’clock High is a 1949 film about the 918th Bomber Group‚ known as the “hard luck” group‚ and their evolution from a demoralized group to a reliable and accomplished group. American bomber groups were flying bombing missions in daylight from England‚ in order to increase accuracy. With Brigadier General Frank Savage as the new leader of the 918th‚ the efficiency and effectiveness subsequently increases. As a replacement for Colonel Davenport‚ who over identified with the men‚
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Herbert Hoover once said “The use of the atomic bomb‚ with its indiscriminate killing of women and children‚ revolts my soul.” This is the opinion of not only Hoover‚ but for everyone else in the world as well. An atomic bomb is a dangerous weapon‚ no one can stop the power of an atomic bomb. The first place that America used the atomic bomb was Hiroshima‚ Japan. The bomb was too powerful and it killed thousands of people. The bombing in Hiroshima has been the final attack to Japan that stopped the
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ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb‚ scholars and citizens subscribed to the original version of the story: the President acted to avoid the invasion of Japan and lose anywhere from 200‚000 to 500‚000 American lives. Then in 1965‚ Gar Alperovitz published a the book “Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam”. He argues that the dropping of the atomic bomb “was not needed to end the war or to save lives” but was a message to the Soviet Union. Fifty years after the atomic bomb was dropped‚ Alperovitz
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Mario Lopez ENC 1102 Fiedler 23 October 2012 Argumentative Essay Life and Success because of the Atomic bomb After defeating Nazi Germany there was only one step for the United States to end World War II and achieve world peace. The U.S. had to make the Japanese Empire surrender. The U.S. armed forces had already devastated the Japanese and conquered Japanese territories of Iwo Jima‚ Okinawa‚ and Japanese-held Luzon at a very high casualty rate. The last effort to make Japan surrender was to
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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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