First Atomic Bomb
On Aug. 6, 1945 The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, not just once but twice. Despite devastating affects the U.S believed that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki would speed the end of war and ultimately save American lives.
Hiroshima had long been a key transportation hub. At the beginning of the Showa Era,( "period of enlightened peace/harmony" or "period of radiant Japan"), the population had reached 200,000, and the city was the political and economic center of the Region. This academic city with it is numerous institutions of higher learning also became one of Japan's most important military cities. Nagasaki was a shipbuilding center, the very industry intended for destruction(B4).
Why they bombed? …show more content…
It was called the Manhattan Project. The first people to actually start to researching about the bomb were colleges. Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley. A group of scientist tested the first controlled nuclear chain reaction under the football fields stands at the University of Chicago. Then shortly after that, the project expanded at a quick rate of speed. Nuclear facilities were built at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington (B12). The main assembly plant was built in Alamo, New Mexico. The total research bill totaled to nearly $2 billion. The Manhattan Project employed over 120,000 Americans (B11). In the summer of 1945 scientist were ready to test the bomb. They tested the bomb somewhere in the New Mexico desert on a 100-foot tower and discharged just before dawn. No one was prepared for the result. 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 (C7). When the cloud returned to earth it created a half-mile wide crater in the sand. A bogus cover-up story was quickly released, explaining that a huge ammunition dump had just exploded in the desert. Now if that was me getting my windows blown out from over 100 miles away from where it exploded I would think it was something other than ammunition, but that's just me. Soon word …show more content…
The bombed hit the city on August 9, 1945 at 11:02 a.m, More powerful than the one used at Hiroshima, “the bomb weighed nearly 10,000 pounds and was built to produce a 22-kiloton blast (B10).” But because the region of Nagasaki, which was nestled in narrow valleys between mountains, reduced the bomb’s effect, limiting the destruction to 2.6 square miles. The bomb killed nearly 80,000 people and about the same amount of people were injured (exact figures are impossible, the blast having obliterated bodies and destroyed records). The bomb destroyed anything and everything in its path. General Leslie R. Groves, the man responsible for organizing the Manhattan Project, which solved the problem of producing and delivering the nuclear explosion, estimated that another atom bomb would be ready to use against Japan by August 17 or 18—but it was not necessary. Japan announced their surrender on August 15 and then formally signed September 2,
On Aug. 6, 1945 The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, not just once but twice. Despite devastating affects the U.S believed that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki would speed the end of war and ultimately save American lives.
Hiroshima had long been a key transportation hub. At the beginning of the Showa Era,( "period of enlightened peace/harmony" or "period of radiant Japan"), the population had reached 200,000, and the city was the political and economic center of the Region. This academic city with it is numerous institutions of higher learning also became one of Japan's most important military cities. Nagasaki was a shipbuilding center, the very industry intended for destruction(B4).
Why they bombed? …show more content…
It was called the Manhattan Project. The first people to actually start to researching about the bomb were colleges. Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley. A group of scientist tested the first controlled nuclear chain reaction under the football fields stands at the University of Chicago. Then shortly after that, the project expanded at a quick rate of speed. Nuclear facilities were built at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington (B12). The main assembly plant was built in Alamo, New Mexico. The total research bill totaled to nearly $2 billion. The Manhattan Project employed over 120,000 Americans (B11). In the summer of 1945 scientist were ready to test the bomb. They tested the bomb somewhere in the New Mexico desert on a 100-foot tower and discharged just before dawn. No one was prepared for the result. 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 (C7). When the cloud returned to earth it created a half-mile wide crater in the sand. A bogus cover-up story was quickly released, explaining that a huge ammunition dump had just exploded in the desert. Now if that was me getting my windows blown out from over 100 miles away from where it exploded I would think it was something other than ammunition, but that's just me. Soon word …show more content…
The bombed hit the city on August 9, 1945 at 11:02 a.m, More powerful than the one used at Hiroshima, “the bomb weighed nearly 10,000 pounds and was built to produce a 22-kiloton blast (B10).” But because the region of Nagasaki, which was nestled in narrow valleys between mountains, reduced the bomb’s effect, limiting the destruction to 2.6 square miles. The bomb killed nearly 80,000 people and about the same amount of people were injured (exact figures are impossible, the blast having obliterated bodies and destroyed records). The bomb destroyed anything and everything in its path. General Leslie R. Groves, the man responsible for organizing the Manhattan Project, which solved the problem of producing and delivering the nuclear explosion, estimated that another atom bomb would be ready to use against Japan by August 17 or 18—but it was not necessary. Japan announced their surrender on August 15 and then formally signed September 2,