Well this is what many people had to experience in the bombing of 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
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happen if America did not release the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Would thousands more of our men’s lives would be lost to fighting this never ending war? President Truman made a decision and two atomic bombs were instructed to be released in Japan to have a more abrupt result in ending World War II. The atomic bombs were sponsored from a foundation named the "Manhattan Project." When the bombs were made‚ they were prepared to release it on Japan. In August 6‚ 1945‚ the B-29 Super-fortress
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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 the bomb out of a B-29 bomber named (Enola Gay) after the piolets mom. The bomb killed an estimated 80‚000-100‚000 people
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July 16th‚ 1945‚ a test bomb was successfully detonated at a test bomb site in Alamogordo‚ New Mexico. Months later‚ on August 6th‚ 1945‚ the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9th‚ 1945‚ a second atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. In my opinion‚ the dropping of the atomic bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” on Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ was not justified. I believe it was not justified because of the effect it had on innocent civilians
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The Atomic Bomb Abigail Dockstader Senior Division Research Paper The Atomic Bomb The Atomic Bomb is one of the deadliest weapons ever to be created. It has changed the history of the world. The atomic bomb would be the first weapon to bring together the world and shatter it altogether. In 1945‚ the only weapon that could destroy the world was built. This is the story of the history‚ creation‚ and innovation of the Atomic Bomb. In 1905
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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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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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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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need to drop bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? On the 6th of August 1945‚ the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima‚1ushering in the nuclear age. The bomb caused the deaths of over 100‚000 people‚2with the bulk of the destruction pertaining to innocent civilians. Three days later‚ the Americans repeated their action at Nagasaki. The aim of the US was not‚ however‚ to cause complete annihilation of the Japanese‚ but to seize the fierce nationalism within Japan‚ ending
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