The Usage of the Atomic Bomb The atomic bomb was used mainly for the purposes of war and freedom over the Axis Powers,
Germany, Italy, and Japan. The United States had to use them to keep the American people out of fear and to not have anyone else on their side have any more casualties. It has changed the United States’ history forever because it was used in WW II, dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and helped the United States end and win the war. The atomic bomb was used in WW II. In 1939, the world’s scientific community discovered that German physicists had learned the secrets of splitting an uranium atom (“The Manhattan Project”). In late 1941, the American effort to design and build an atomic bomb received its code name -- the Manhattan Project, which included scientists David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fachs, and Edward Teller (“The Manhattan Project”). The chief among the people who unleashed the power of the uranium atom was Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the project from conception to completion to make sure that nothing would go wrong (Bellis). There were two bombs that were dropped miles apart in different cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Japan (“The …show more content…
On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon “Little Boy” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, followed 76 hours later on August 9th by the detonation of the “Fat Man” nuclear bomb over Nagasaki (Yamazaki). Hiroshima lost 70,000 lives from the radiation blast, while Nagasaki lost 150,000 in the explosion of the bombs, which is around 220,000 lives lost (Novelguide Team). To the American people who were weary from the long and brutal war, such a drastic measure seemed necessary to end this terrible period in time (Novelguide Team). Because of this convenience, it gave the United States a landslide victory over
Germany, Italy, and Japan. The United States had to use them to keep the American people out of fear and to not have anyone else on their side have any more casualties. It has changed the United States’ history forever because it was used in WW II, dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and helped the United States end and win the war. The atomic bomb was used in WW II. In 1939, the world’s scientific community discovered that German physicists had learned the secrets of splitting an uranium atom (“The Manhattan Project”). In late 1941, the American effort to design and build an atomic bomb received its code name -- the Manhattan Project, which included scientists David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fachs, and Edward Teller (“The Manhattan Project”). The chief among the people who unleashed the power of the uranium atom was Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the project from conception to completion to make sure that nothing would go wrong (Bellis). There were two bombs that were dropped miles apart in different cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Japan (“The …show more content…
On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon “Little Boy” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, followed 76 hours later on August 9th by the detonation of the “Fat Man” nuclear bomb over Nagasaki (Yamazaki). Hiroshima lost 70,000 lives from the radiation blast, while Nagasaki lost 150,000 in the explosion of the bombs, which is around 220,000 lives lost (Novelguide Team). To the American people who were weary from the long and brutal war, such a drastic measure seemed necessary to end this terrible period in time (Novelguide Team). Because of this convenience, it gave the United States a landslide victory over