Everybody knows about the atomic bomb‚ but not everybody is aware of the story behind it. The atomic bomb is arguably one of the most iconic turning points in history. There are many takes on whether this invention was beneficial or unnecessary. At first‚ the bomb was built out of spite to beat the Germans; later on‚ it was used against Japan after Pearl Harbor. This complex weapon needs many people to participate in its creation. The reason the project started was to surpass the Germans in creating
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Hiroshima‚ Japan in 1945. On December 7th 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and as a result the US declared war. The US started to develop the atomic bomb‚ and ultimately bombed Hiroshima. The two perspectives that the atomic bomb was necessary to end the war and the atomic bomb wasn’t necessary to end the war will be addressed. Many people said that the bomb was a quick and effective way to end the war with minimum American lives lost‚ while others believe that is was a barbaric tactic that caused
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the first atomic bomb used in warfare on the Japanese city of Hiroshima‚ and then on August the 9th‚President Truman announced “sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy” and then on August the 9th three days later another American bomber plane dropped the second bomb on the industrial section of the city of Nagasaki‚ these two bombed completely destroyed most of the cities. There were lots of consequences of the bomb being dropped
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American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima‚...That bomb had more power than 20‚000 tons of TNT...which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare”. By the summer of 1945‚ millions of soldiers and citizens of the world had died after years of fighting in the Second World War. Although Europe’s involvement in the war had come to an end‚ the War in the Pacific between the United States and Japan had not found its conclusion. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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He didn’t understand that his findings will be utilized in an approach that is damaging. He believed that atomic conflict was evitable‚ but needed to work on peace deals as an alternative to battling and understood he was assembling a blast. Oppenheimer had ethical issues using the growth of the explosion‚ and he felt uneasy as “ the father of the atomic bomb being recognized.” Simply worked to get a government lab in Woods Gap‚ Ma. He did research to do good for his information‚
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President Harry S. Truman‚ atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima‚ and Nagasaki‚ marking the only time nuclear weapons were used in warfare in all of U.S. history. It roughly killed about 129‚000-246‚000 or more people. Using a weapon of such untold destructive force‚ it made Japan finally announced its surrender to the Allies. Was America justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Japan? I think that America was justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. Dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Manhattan Project he knew what he was saying. Especially since he knew the destructive force of the weapon he helped create. Although it was not the first‚ the atomic bomb was a weapon that the world had never seen before. With the ability to wipe out an area in seconds and leave that said area in shambles for years later. This power gave the atomic bomb the title of a weapon of mass destruction. Even though they are one of the newest threats to the world; weapons of mass destruction are the most dangerous
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The Atomic Bomb The atomic bomb is a powerful‚ explosive nuclear weapon. It is fueled by the fission of the nuclei of specific amounts of plutonium or uranium‚ in a chain reaction. The strength of the explosion created by one of these bombs is equal to the strength of an explosion created by thousands of tons of TNT. The atomic bomb was first created in the early twentieth century. Physicists in the United States and Europe had discovered that the fission of uranium could be used to create
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information about the Manhattan project and the development of the atom bomb‚ the importance and value of the information that he gave the Russians is unfathomable. “By handing over the 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
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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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