Atomic Bomb Essay

the United States idea of creating the atomic bomb. Before the creation of the atomic bomb there were around 255,000 people living in the city of Hiroshima and 240,000 in Nagasaki. When finally ready to drop the bomb the US asked Paul Tibbets to be the pilot of the B-29 loaded with the bomb. An atomic bomb is a bomb which was designed to cause mass destruction and be able to start wars. The atomic bomb has the power of around 20,000 tons of TNT. When the bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki…

President Truman and the United States Government had many alternatives to dropping the atomic on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. The United States could take part in a land invasion of Japan in order to fight surrender out of them. Waiting for Russia to break their Japanese neutrality act and attack Japan was also a very viable option presented to Truman while he was deliberating dropping the atomic bombs. Unfortunately, there were very good reasons why both of these options were…

On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, just three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. While many historians argue about the morality of the bombs, and effect on the Japanese decision to surrender, this essay will discuss whether the Japanese had enough time to initiate a surrender in between the atomic bombings. In Japan, there are six major leaders which are required to come to a unanimous decision to bring about surrender. At the…

In the 1940s, the atomic bomb was undergoing development and in August of 1945, the first non-test atomic bomb was dropped by a U.S. B-29 bomber on the city of Hiroshima in Japan and another was dropped, 3 days later, in Nagasaki. Some justify the attack because it spared the lives of many American and Japanese soldiers that would have been lost in an invasion of Japan, which was the alternative to the bombings. However, the cons outweigh the pros: the bombs caused mass civilian casualties,…

as many disadvantages to the use of atomic bombs in World War II for President Harry S. Truman as there were advantages. When Harry Truman learned of the accomplishment of the Manhattan Project, he recognized he was faced with a choice of supreme gravity. The ability to end the war with Japan was in his hands, but it would include releasing the most dreadful weapon ever known. The dropping of the atomic bomb. Truman indicated that his decision to drop the bomb was chastely military. For Truman,…

Harry S. Truman had a lot of moral dilemmas to face we he was trying to decide if he wanted to drop the atomic bombs. He had to think of the innocent people he would kill with the atomic bomb and he also had to worry about the Soviet Union feeling threating by the attacks. The reason Harry S. Truman wanted to bomb Japan was because on December 7, 1941 Japan decided to attack and bomb the Pearl Harbor. Japan destroyed twelve ships with a hundred sixty airplanes included, of those twelve ships was…

topic of atomic warfare. Not many people understand how it works, however they terrified of it as an imminent threat. A majority of people have the topic of atomic warfare hiding in the back of their heads but don’t think too much of it because it’s been years since a country has been attacked. A recent number of tests in North Korea has scared many Americans due to a history of tension between the two countries. The destructive history of atomic wars interested me in how an atomic bomb works.…

Those who believe that the bomb was justified argue that, when American lives are at risks, a president has a duty to end the war in any way that they possibly can. However, those in opposition argue that the United States killed civilians, and helped to usher in a new era of fear in war. I believe firmly that the latter, those who believe that the use of atomic weapons on civilians was an act that was unnecessary and unjustified,…

the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima at 8:15 in the morning. Hiroshima, as a city, was circular in shape, and the bomb landed a bit northwest of the center of the city making the devastation from the bomb even more catastrophic. Also on August 9, 1945, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki at 11:02 am. The destruction at Nagasaki was not as bad as it was at Hiroshima but was still reported as if every building was under the condition as if it had taken a direct hit by a normal bomb,…

issued in the future. The United States should not apologize for dropping an atomic bomb on Japan since dropping the bomb saved many civilians by avoiding the invasion of Japan. Also, Japan has never apologized for their own war crimes. Lastly, those questioning the wartime decision of 70 years ago did not feel the necessity to end the war, thus, all the speculation over the bombs is after thought.…