On August 6 and 9‚ 1945 United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ during the end of World War II. The two bombings‚ killed around 199‚000 people‚ and until today has been the only use use of nuclear weapons in battle. Why did the United States drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and what was the aftermath? After the war in Europe had concluded when Nazi Germany surrendered on May 8‚ 1945‚ and Hitler committed suicide. The Japanese‚ refused to
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world scientific community held the concern of Nazi scientists utilizing this new found energy to build a nuclear bomb. As to avoid this‚ the United States implemented their own project. With the input of multiple scientists‚ and the ultimate approval of President Roosevelt‚ the first atomic bomb began to be designed and built by the United States. During World War II‚ The United States had discovered that German physicists had figured out how to separate a Uranium atom. The US feared that Nazi scientists
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display of unimaginable power in the form of an atomic bomb being deployed by the United States on Hiroshima‚ Japan. Innocent citizens heard an imaginable thunder‚ that was nothing short of earth-shattering. The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was not taken lightly. The Manhattan Project‚ a top-secret American scientific endeavor‚ worked tirelessly to develop a weapon of unprecedented power. The successful test of the first atomic bomb‚ codenamed "Trinity‚" on July 16‚ 1945‚ marked a
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When the United States decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan their ultimate goal was to intimidate the soviet union. The relationship between the two countries was beginning to unravel. The U.S. decided that the only way to gain the respect from the soviet union was to display the amount of power they truly had. The war between Japan and the United States was a good way to showcase the power that they had. The bombing in Japan made it clear that the United States held all the power. Therefore
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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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The use of the atomic bomb remains controversial to this day. There are academics and policy makers of the time that still disagree on the whether it was justifiable to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They debate if it truly was in the interest of ending the war sooner and with less loss of life. Several issues played together to help form the opinion that Truman acted for more nefarious purposes. Domestic as well as international politics is said to have played a role in the decision of Truman
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to do to deal with Japan was a tough one. America made the right decision on dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. The atomic bomb was necessary in order to assure the war would end as soon as possible. On August 6th the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ on august 9th a second one was dropped on Nagasaki‚ and on August 10th Japan declared its intention to surrender. This is clear proof that atomic bomb was an effective way to end the war. Even if it did kill many people it might actually have
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After the shift in power from President Franklin D. 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
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family didn’t want their people to get hurt so they quietly packed without anyone knowing. The thing that Hiroki’s family didn’t know was that the atom bomb was going to be dropped at that day. But as soon as Hiroki’s father came out of the house he ran back inside and told everyone to go under a table...a few seconds later…….the atom bomb dropped.
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On August 6‚ 1945‚ a plane called the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb‚ Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima. Hiroshima was a very industrial city; it had a military base and had not yet been bombed. The U.S. military thought Hiroshima would be a good target to display the destructive power of their new super bomb. Harry S. Truman‚ the president of The United States from 1945 to 1953‚ decided to drop the atomic bomb due to several reasons. First‚ he wanted to end the war as soon as possible‚ second
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