5/3/2011 Joan Hinton – Atomic Bomb Topic Outline & Thesis Statement According to Joan Hinton‚ “As long as there is war‚ scientists will never be free‚ are we scientists going to spend our lives in slavery for madmen who want to destroy the world?” Joan Hinton wanted to use her gift as a mathematician to help people around the world; instead‚ she was deceitfully recruited to work on a project that would kill sixty – seventy thousand people and injure one hundred
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The Atomic Bomb The Manhattan Project was a United States government research project where they produced the first atomic bomb. The project started in 1942‚ with only six thousand dollars in funding‚ and ended in 1945‚ when the first atomic bomb was produced. “ The atomic bomb took four years to produce about two billion dollars” (Moss 22). Dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified‚ that is why we dropped the bombs. The dropping of the atomic bombs saved many American
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Was the U.S justified in their Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb? Before WWII‚ the United States strongly supported the idea of Isolationism‚ meaning they did not want to be involved in wars. As the time passed the United States found them turning away from neutrality by providing armed weapons to other nations. When other countries could not afford to buy products‚ the U.S could not afford to lose business‚ so they came up with a Lend-Lease Act and Cash and Carry. Both selling and lending items
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Herbert Hoover once said “The use of the atomic bomb‚ with its indiscriminate killing of women and children‚ revolts my soul.” This is the opinion of not only Hoover‚ but for everyone else in the world as well. An atomic bomb is a dangerous weapon‚ no one can stop the power of an atomic bomb. The first place that America used the atomic bomb was Hiroshima‚ Japan. The bomb was too powerful and it killed thousands of people. The bombing in Hiroshima has been the final attack to Japan that stopped the
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Mario Lopez ENC 1102 Fiedler 23 October 2012 Argumentative Essay Life and Success because of the Atomic bomb After defeating Nazi Germany there was only one step for the United States to end World War II and achieve world peace. The U.S. had to make the Japanese Empire surrender. The U.S. armed forces had already devastated the Japanese and conquered Japanese territories of Iwo Jima‚ Okinawa‚ and Japanese-held Luzon at a very high casualty rate. The last effort to make Japan surrender was to
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It wasn’t necessary to drop the bombs on Japan. It wasn’t justified for many reasons. One reason being that Japan was already on the brink of surrendering. They killed innocent people just for the sake to end a war when there could’ve been other diplomatic ways to end it. It was all immoral. US also wanted to show off the power that they had. They knew just how powerful and how much damage it was going to cause‚ but they took the chance. Before the bomb decision was made‚ an “Allied demand for an
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war’s pressure caused this abominable leader to make the gratuitous decision to drop a ghastly atomic bomb on the innocent people of Hiroshima. President Truman’s imprudent decision to squander the atomic bomb against the Japanese city of Hiroshima was pure butchery‚ was the result of his vulgar racism towards other nations‚ and was immorally unnecessary. Some critics may argue that the use of the atomic bomb was completely the last option the United States had because “the Japanese military was refusing
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*Insert bomb falling sound* BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM! The Manhattan Project; big ominous name right? Makes you think “Oh whatever could it be?”‚ or “I like tacos!”. It was founded by the US with a little help from our friendly neighborhood Canada‚ and Britain. If you’re scared of the big‚ bad title‚ don’t worry‚ I’m here to tell you the what‚ the why‚ and the what about the not so friendly Manhattan Project! The reason why it was made is because of Fear of Nazi Germany making nuclear weapons had
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In 1942 the U.S. government started the Manhattan Project‚ which was the secret effort to make a bomb based on nuclear fission (Levine 269). The project’s name originated because it was initially located in the Manhattan district of the Army Corps of Engineers (Schlager 408). Frist‚ the initiative was put into motion because of the growing fear that Nazi Germany might be developing an atomic bomb following a number of their advances in science (Kraft). President Roosevelt eventually started the project
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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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