WWII. The Manhattan Project‚ a plan all over the USA to research and build an atomic bomb. Ranging from 1941-1946‚ General Leslie R. Groves ran the project‚ as J. Robert Oppenheimer ran the research. “Manhattan Project” by Ctbto.org reports‚ “Project research took place at over 30 different sites across the United States‚ Canada and the United Kingdom.”(citation needed) With this‚ the race to the atomic bomb began. Two bombs were made during this‚ Little Boy and Fat Man. Little Boy was similar to a
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WAS THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI JUSTIFIED? A bomb which was equal to 13‚000 tonnes of highly-explosive bombs‚ used to make the Japanese surrender‚ but also killing many lives‚ cannot be justified. When the highly-explosive bombs were dropped in Dresden‚ everyone had thought of this as very affective. But imagine how bad the atomic bomb would be‚ which could destroy a city only just by its radiation‚ let alone the actual explosion. President Truman of America made a decision of
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Were the Americans justified in dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945? The United States of American became the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry in warfare‚ when they dropped the first of two atomic bombs 2000 feet over the city of Hiroshima in japan on August 6th 1945‚ killing 80000 civilians and militants instantly and eventually leading to the total destruction of up to 90 per cent of the city. This bomb along with a second bomb led to the surrender of japan just days
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The alternative hypotheses in this case is dropping an atomic bomb against your enemies will end war and save lives. The null hypothesis was ending war and saving lives had nothing to do with the reason why the atomic bomb was dropped. It was dropped on the sole propose of showing the world that it would be willing to use nuclear weapons against its enemies. Finding the data on how many times we used bombs on enemies and non-enemies can test both hypotheses. After that we will take a look at the
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All Were there any injury phases on the people who survived the Atomic Bomb horrific? The injury phases on the people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki who survived The Atomic Bomb were horrific because most people were instantly vaporized or had the high risk of Cancers‚Blood Disorders‚ and Tumors. There were also risks of being badly burnt and having skin injuries that caused life long disorders to the body. The Atomic Bomb was so powerful that it caused more than 7 decades of death and agony to the people
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would jump straight to thinking about the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Because President Truman made the decision to do that‚ many people began to despise him. But there is a lot that people do not know about what led to him making that horrific decision. In my opinion‚ President Truman’s decision to drop the bomb on Japan was justified. First of all‚ the United States did not immediately drop the bomb on Japan. In fact‚ they considered 4 other options that they thought
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Union was at its peak in history. It was a time when the hatred against communism and the idea of nationalism were growing exponentially. Meanwhile‚ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for the accusations of helping the Soviets create the atomic bomb‚ which was the United States’ only advantage over the Soviets. Their arrest eventually led to the first ever execution of espionage in United States history. However‚ the justification of their execution is still being debated to this day. Did
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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 the first time. Thus‚ Truman decided that the best way
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In early August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly yielded the surrender of Japan and the end of American involvement in World War II. By 1946 the two bombs caused the death of perhaps as many as 240‚000 Japanese citizens1. The popular‚ or traditional‚ view that dominated the 1950s and 60s put forth by President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson was that the dropping of the bomb was a diplomatic maneuver aimed
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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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