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After six months of the United States attacking Japanese cities using bombs with the United Kingdom, and China, and the Japanese go as far as to use suicide bombers to change the events of the war, the United States called for japan to surrender. But the Japanese government was too honorable to surrender in time of war and ignored the Potsdam Declaration. Created by brilliant scientists, the bomb which was Original’s purpose was to be used against Nazi Germany was to be used to end the war. The bomb which could wipe a city off the surface of the map and cause long time damage was first atomic test was in New Mexico which Exploded with the force of 67 million sticks of dynamite. The flash from the explosion could be seen from over 10 miles away

“We believe that . . . an early unannounced attack against Japan inadvisable. If the United States were to be the first to release this new means of indiscriminate destruction upon mankind, she would sacrifice public support throughout the world, precipitate the race for armaments, and prejudice the possibility of reaching an international agreement on the future control of such weapons. Much more favorable conditions could be created if nuclear bombs were first revealed to the world by a demonstration in an appropriately selected uninhabited area.” The initial test for the atomic bomb was dropped in Alamogordo, Mexico with experts observing more than 20 miles away. The explosion was estimated to be a blast of about 10,000 tons of TNT. The Atomic bomb’s intense and destructive power frightened many scientists who were working on the Manhattan Project (Knebel 78). Including the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer felt as if he had created something that would bring forth destruction to the world, instead of using his brilliant scientific mind to improve and usher the world into an era of peace like he intended to. In fact, many scientists within the Manhattan Project were shocked and against using such a powerful weapon as the atomic bomb against other humans, so much that a group of scientists and

The United States dropped their first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The explosion was tragic, “90 percent of the city was wiped out and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens and thousand more would later die to radiation exposure” (Lemay and Paul). Innocent children and citizens would die.

In August 1945, America dropped two Atomic bombs on Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed at least 130,000 people and were the first and last use of nuclear weapons in warfare.

“We have to protect our Earth, so our children and grandchildren will never suffer like that,’ she said. And she looked ahead. ‘Maybe nuclear weapons won’t be abolished while I’m alive,’ she said. ‘But I will never give up.” (Hanley, NBC News). August 6, 1945 at 8:16 in the morning, the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on thousands of unsuspecting people in Hiroshima, Japan. Not only did this catastrophic event kill thousands of civilians, but it also resulted in other nations obtaining and learning how to create these deadly weapons, weapons that we still have today. In the book Hiroshima by John Hersey he gives readers a new look at that day, through the eyes of six victims who survived the horrific attack on Hiroshima, he shows how the entire city of Hiroshima suffered, and were left alone to fend for themselves.The book Hiroshima by John Hersey, sheds light on the immense dangers of nuclear warfare, and the government's responsibility for its people, affected by a war they aren’t fighting in.

1942: The Manhattan Project: The Manhattan Project was a military project that created the Unites States’ first atomic bomb. The project that was researched, put together, and tested was used as a threat to Japan so that they would surrender. The Japanese military refused to surrender

Finally, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unjustified because of the lack of testing. Although the project to design the first atomic bomb, codenamed the Manhattan Project, began in 1941, the first bomb was not ready to be tested until the month before it would be used in 1945. When it was tested at Trinity Site in New Mexico, the detonation caused unexpected results (“The Manhattan Project”). It caused “A blinding flash visible for 200 miles lit up the morning sky. A mushroom cloud reached 40,000 feet, blowing out windows of civilian homes up to 100 miles away. When the cloud returned to earth it created a half-mile wide crater metamorphosing sand into glass” (“The

One of those was as said earlier the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. That would later lead to the biggest milestone to ever be met. However, there was still a few milestones and successes to be met before that. The most significant of those seeing as how the list is too long to name is when Einstein convinced them to work with the military and conduct a controlled a nuclear fission reaction. Now comes the biggest one of them all, the testing of the bomb. This was a test in which no one knew what to expect because it had never been done before. The testing resulted in a forty thousand foot tall mushroom cloud that could be seen two hundred miles away, and blew out windows of homes one hundred miles

This committee decided that the United States should retain nuclear superiority, in the event that international relations deteriorated following World War II (US Department of Energy). This decision is a foreshadowing of the Cold War, and nuclear arms race which followed the dropping of nuclear weapons on Japan. The interim committee also decreed that a regulatory system should be created to control the development of nuclear weapons, since other nations would inevitably obtain the technology needed to develop weapons. Possibly, the most influential decision made by the interim committee was to keep the details of the atomic bomb a secret, to maintain the shock effect, until after it had been dropped on Japan. Two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first bomb dropped was a uranium bomb, nick-named Little Boy, was untested before its detonation (US Department of Energy). The second, dropped after the Japanese did not surrender, was a plutonium bomb, nick-named Fat Man. The dropping of these bombs propelled the United States to a seat of world power, as they were the only country to obtain a weapon of mass destruction. The Manhattan Project became scientific and engineering feat, employing over 100,000 individuals. The exceptional organizational model the Manhattan Project provided, allowed for great scientific achievements in the later part of

Since 1940, the United States had been working on developing an atomic weapon, but Nazi Germany was already conducting research into nuclear weapons. The American effort to design and build an atomic bomb received its code name — the MANHATTAN PROJECT (ushistory.org). The U.S. developed two types of atomic bombs during the Second World War. The first, Little Boy, was a uranium core bomb. Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. The second weapon was dropped on Nagasaki. It was called Fat Man and was an implosion-type device. It had a plutonium core. After the final bill was tallied, nearly $2 billion had been spent on research and development of the atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project employed over 120,000 Americans (ushistory.org). It was also the best well-kept secret of

The operation introduced the world to one of the most potent and destructive weapons mankind had ever seen, and later led to the use of the bomb on thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians in Japan. Because of the tremendous number of civilian casualties, many question Truman's morality. Some argue that Truman's administration had substantial evidence that the Japanese would have surrendered if they were able to keep their emperor. They also point out that civilians-despite being in the general area of Japanese military bases- were the primary targets. Others argue that the bombings actually saved the lives of thousands of American and Japanese lives because it prevented an invasion of Japan by the United States, seeing that it was Truman's alternative choice to the bombings. The Manhattan Project was also a direct correlation with the introduction of nuclear warfare to humankind and the beginning of a nuclear arms race against the Soviet Union, who, after receiving the blueprints from their spies in the U.S, began to build up their own nuclear arsenal and posed a threat to the United

The first test of a fission bomb was done on Monday, July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert in New Mexico, at 5:29:45 A.M., Mountain War Time. This was the test of a plutonium bomb that was given the code name Trinity. The need to avoid sending more ground troops further into Japan was a priority because it was becoming clear that the Japanese forces were fighting more fiercely the closer American forces got to the home islands. Invading and seizing Japanese territories was not easily accomplished because of the 1941 Code of the Japanese Soldier that required victory or death. Hence, the public became aware of the true story about what the bright light and tremor of shock waves that encompassed a 160-mile radius of the Trinity test site truly was when President Harry S. Truman ordered the drop of its second nuclear bomb that detonated over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. The second nuclear bomb was the second design that the LAL, under the direction of Oppenheimer, had been working on. The

The history of these atomic bombs is quite fascinating but devastating. For example, “little boy” was a manhattan project that worked on uranium extraction.

Both politics and political issues have changed society’s views on the world. On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped. The United States established the Manhattan Project, comprised of the country’s leading scientists to create a bomb, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb, which was to be dropped onto Japan. From the bomb, 90,000 to 146,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and 39,000 to 80,000 people were killed in Nagasaki. The atomic bomb wiped out many blocks and destroyed many streets and buildings. This bomb was the most deadly bomb to successfully drop in that time. However, in 1954, the United States successfully detonated the first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific. This bomb was 1,000 times more powerful than regular

With the approval of American President Harry S. Truman, the fates of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were sealed. This decision came with heavy hearts, as the United States attempted to end their involvement in World War II by using nuclear power against the nation of Japan. Truman’s primary goal in this form of attack was to discontinue the war as quickly as possible, while also sending a message to the enemy and establish the United States as the leader in atomic energy. Beginning as a secret operation labeled the Manhattan Project, atomic bombs became the new weapons of mass destruction. The evident frontrunner in nuclear technology, the United States was the first country to release atomic bombs on another nation for war