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The Atomic Bomb What made the second Great War change and bring it to an end? The answer to that is actually quite simple and it isn’t what you think. The real reason the war ended was actually because of the atomic bombs. The dropping of the atomic bombs was a turning point during World War II. Many people don’t understand the main reason for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many people still speculate the main reason President Truman dropped the atomic bomb, was because he was a racist. The true reason he did it was because in the eyes of our president, he didn’t want to risk the lives of U.S. soldiers (Nicolas). After Okinawa and Iwo Jima 19,200 soldiers died. Truman wanted the Japanese surrender by showing the power of the U.S., after the second bond was dropped on Japan, Japan finally surrendered and brought an end to WWII (“Harry S…”). The Manhattan Project was a secret group that made the atomic bomb in the 1930s.
The Manhattan project was an organization that was formed to make mass weapons of war. It was formed in fear of the Germans, and we used the project to make first atomic bomb. The first atomic was done “under the direction of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.” His research “ushered in the atomic age”, and his group helped us make the first atomic bombs …show more content…

After the U.S. dropped both bombs it brought an end to World War II, after that no nuclear bombs have been used in war. Many decades after, the U.S.S.R used spies to get ahold of secret information containing blueprints to an atomic bomb, and the files also showed the uranium in Eastern Europe. This then ushered in the cold war. During this time, many world superpowers would make upon 100’s of nuclear warheads. The U.S. and Soviet Union agreed to a treaty that would halt all nuclear weapons. This was called the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty (History.com

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