Imagine living in Hiroshima or Nagasaki and having an Atomic Bomb dropped over you unexpectedly killing you and your loved ones. Also imagine all the survivors suffering and dying slowly of radiation poisoning. Thats what the Atomic Bomb was. I don’t think the United States should have bombed Japan but at the sametime I do because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and that brought us into World War 2 and also bomb Japan. At 8:15am on 6 August 1945 a US B-29 aircraft dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese
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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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The dropping of the Atomic Bomb was an attack made on the Japanese by the Americans. Although the dropping of the Atomic Bomb by the United States helped to end World War II‚ the act was unjustified because of innocent Japanese civilians that were needlessly murdered and were not given sufficient time to surrender from the area. Consequently‚ the Japanese were defeated before and they were attempting to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the unsuccessful bombing with conventional
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The atomic bomb dropped on Japan was the correlated decision of the president at the time‚ Harry Truman‚ and his chief advisors. While the pros and cons were weighed heavily‚ it was decided that the least blood shed would be wrought if we shed the most blood on the first strike. On August 6‚ 1945‚ the enola gay‚ a class B-29 heavy bomber‚ departed from Tinian‚ an island to the southeast of Japan‚ carrying a heavy payload which would effectively be the beginning of the end of Japan’s war against the
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The world changed in 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan‚ many people have debated whether or not this was necessary. The United States atomic bombing of Japan was justified. The Japanese would not have given up if the United States had not dropped the two atomic bombs. The Japanese code to encrypt messages was called the Purple Code‚ by this time in the war the United States had long broken the Purple Code and in their “Secret” messages. They said that they were not going to surrender
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb is not necessary for many reasons such as the following. The Ground and Naval wars are progressing strongly and also Japan is already on defense. The ground war is doing very well and has worked for us so far so why not continue. Some may say that the mountainous region of Japan could lead to the death of many American soldiers but the Japanese soldiers would have many fatalities so it would even out instead of just killing many innocent Japanese. The Naval war was making
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Generational Perceptions: Interracial Dating Views between the Baby Boomers and Millennial’s Generational Perceptions: Interracial Dating Views between the Baby Boomers and Millennial’s 2013 Catherine Mueller COMM 489 Senior Thesis 1/24/2013 2013 Catherine Mueller COMM 489 Senior Thesis 1/24/2013 Generational Perceptions: Interracial Dating Views between the Baby Boomers and the Millennials Abstract: Introduction: Interracial relationships or Miscegenation is a mixture of
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Historical Development of Atomic Structure Yazan Fahmawi Sept. 30‚ 1995 T3 IBS Chemistry Ms. Redman The idea behind the "atom" goes back to the Ancient Greek society‚ where scientists believed that all matter was made of smaller‚ more fundamental particles called elements. They called these particles atoms‚ meaning "not divisible." Then came the chemists and physicists of the 16th and 17th centuries who discovered various formulae of various salts and water‚ hence discovering the idea of a molecule
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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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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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