not reply. So‚ on August 6‚ 1945‚ the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima‚ a Japanese city of 365‚000 people. Almost 73‚000 people died in the attack. Three days later‚ on August 9‚ a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki‚ a city of 200‚000. It killed about 37‚500 people. Radiation killed many more. The Japanese formally surrendered on September 2. The overwhelming destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb‚ and of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later‚ changed the nature
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What was the Manhattan Project? The Manhattan Project began in 1939 after Albert Einstein learned of the Germans plans to take the splitting of a uranium atom and turn it into a weapon‚ Einstein warned the U.S President‚ who took the upcoming threat seriously enough to begin the construction of the world’s first atomic bomb. Creation of the bomb began in 1942 and ended in 1946 after the United States dropped a bomb on Nagasaki and ultimately killed 200‚000 people. The construction of the weapon involved
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IA A. Plan of Investigation This investigation evaluates whether or not the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary to make Japan surrender unconditionally. To assess the extent to which the deployment of nuclear weapons affected the Japanese decision to surrender unconditionally and if Japan was already prepared to do this prior to the use of the atomic bombs. The details and motivations of the United States to drop the bombs are explored as well as Japan’s
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World War II lasted for six years from September‚1 1939 to September 2‚ 1945 and resulted with Japan’s surrender but believe it or not many events occurred both good and bad before anyone could make that choice. Before the declaration of this war japan had made an agreement with the U.S in which they gave them a friendship medal signifying peace. Turns out that wasn’t the case japan actually backstabbed the U.S and on the morning of December 7th‚ 1941 the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor destroying
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burned | 11‚494 | 23.0 | Blasted and/or burned | 14‚146 | 28.3 | Partially burned or blasted | 5‚441 | 10.9 | Total buildings and houses destroyed | 19‚587 | 39.2 | Undamaged | 30‚413 | 60.8 | TABLE A Estimates of Casualties | Hiroshima | Nagasaki | Pre-raid population | 255‚000 | 195‚000 | Dead | 66‚000 | 39‚000 | Injured | 69‚000 | 25‚000 | Total Casualties | 135‚000 | 64‚000 | The relation of total casualties to distance from X‚ the center of damage and point
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When President Harry Truman made the decision to drop the first ever atomic bomb‚ did he saves lives or did he create a whole new Pandora’s box that we would continue to struggle with today? After gathering facts and meeting with our Allies such as the Soviet Union‚ he believed that dropping the atomic bomb would make the Japanese surrender quickly saving lives in the long run. There were many factors that went into the decision that President Truman made. After the bloody battles of Iwo
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In August of 1945‚ by the end of the Second World War‚ the world witnessed for the first time the extreme power of atomic weapons‚ in an unprecedented attack on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although‚ for many‚ the use of that new piece of weaponry had been essential and only done to eliminate Japanese threat toward the United States‚ specialists in the subject expose possible other reasons for such attacks‚ which will be further analyzed. In a speech addressed to the nation of the
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refused to surrender‚ why the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The atomic bomb was first used in warfare at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in august 1945‚ and the bomb played a key role in ending World War II. The Atomic bomb created the Manhattan project. The Manhattan project was first exploded at the top secret base of Alamogordo on July 16th 1945. The bomb that dropped on Hiroshima was code-name “little boy”. What good did it bring the U.S people when
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that had caught my attention. The first was by Ken Kesney counter cultural figure and author of the 1962 novel “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” This first quote was taken out of his 1964 novel “Sometimes a Great Notion” “Suburban survivors of Hiroshima described the blast as a ‘Mighty boom‚ like a locomotive followed by a long‚ loud train roaring past‚ fading gradually away to a murmur.’ Wrong. They describe only the ear’s inaccurate report. For that mighty boom was only the first faintest
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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 were necessary
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