Proposal for Extended Essay: Was It Justified to Drop a Nuclear Bomb in Japan? I decide to write about the nuclear bomb incident happened at the end of World War II. The United States dropped two nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at August 6 and August 9‚ 1945. The United States was one of the United Nations‚ while Japan was one of the Axis Powers. They were on the opposite military alliances during the World War II. In order to end the war shortly‚ the United States under the command of President
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The document‚” The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki “was produced during the time period of World War 2 in the 20th century. Both denotations were dropped in 1945. It was an attack that was ordered by the United States on Japanese land because the Japanese had attacked previously attacked the United States. Japan had initiated this conflict and the U.S was determined in ending it. This document states that an overview of the immense damage to Japanese infrastructure‚ population‚ and willpower
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The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was both tragic and unnecessary. This explosion caused over 150‚000 civilian deaths. The United States used this bomb as a way to how superiority to Japan and the Soviets‚ but they took it too far. For one‚ it was way overfunded. The United States were also uneducated about its full power. When they dropped the bomb‚ even they were unsure of the full destruction the bomb was capable of. Doing this to innocent civilians that were not even a part of the war gave
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On August 6‚ 1945‚ during World War II (1939-45)‚ an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb named the Enola Gay over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It is said to have dropped right over Shima Surgical Hospital some 70 yards southeast of the Industrial Promotional Hall (now known as the Atomic Bomb Dome). The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80‚000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Crewmembers of the
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The world’s first atomic bomb was transported to Guam by the former flagship of the American Pacific Fifth Fleet‚ the USS Indianapolis. The bomb was brought aboard the ship on July 15th 1945‚ while she was anchored in San Francisco Bay. At 8:00 a.m. The following morning the USS Indianapolis left San Francisco bound for Tinian with the atomic bomb‚ something that would cause so much devastation and go down in history. Of the crew aboard that morning 883 of 1‚199 will have perished in two weeks. The
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New Yorker Cover: 9/11/01 Writer‚ editor‚ and artist‚ Art Spiegelman‚ created the very controversial cover for The New Yorker magazine. Mr. Spiegelman worked for The New Yorker for ten years‚ resigning a few months after the September 11th terrorist attacks‚ living within walking distance from the world trade center. The cover of the September 24th issue of The New Yorker was voted in the top ten of magazine covers of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The cover was
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World Trade Center By Nicomi Kloempken Liberty University April 2014 World Trade Center Years after the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York city‚ Oliver Stone (1946-) directed the movie World Trade Center (2006 version). The movie follows the various characters thru their seemingly normal day of work; Except this day the terrorists fly two planes into the two towers. Nicholas Cage stars as the lead Port Authority Police officer‚ John McLoughlin. He says to his gathered
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Patrick Blackett is known as the father of operational research and most of his work was done in and around Britain during the WWII era. During the years of 1940 to 1945‚ Blackett participated in many projects to aid the allied members in combating the axis powers. Some of his projects included creating the air-defense grid for Britain‚ improving ship convoy strategies‚ improvements to vehicle armor plating‚ as well as many other works. He was responsible for beginning the work that ultimately led
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Radio Bikini is a movie from 1988 by Robert Stone about two atomic tests (“Able” and “Baker”) that the United States government did under the name of “Operation Crossroads”. If you were to go to Google and type in the words “Atomic Bomb” you would come up with a list of over 12‚700‚000 links‚ with the vast majority of them being about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While‚ Hiroshima and Nagasaki are very important in the history of the atomic bomb; there is another significantly more important location that
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Do you know about any scientist that have discovered the domain of nuclear science? Well I don’t think you have so I am going to tell you about him. The man I am talking to you about today is the man that did a great job showing proof of what he discovered is true and that it is real. This man was an over achiever‚ as you know everyone have their ups and downs. He had multiple obstacles in his life‚ but was able to get over them to reach his goals. This man was one of many scientists who contributed
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