Bombs

Cardillo Period 6/7 21 May 2015 The Manhattan Project took place during World War II and its purpose was to create a bomb so devastating it would rip part and incinerate anything in its path. This project was created to aid America in WWII and it was a success creating one of the most devastating bombs ever used by mankind, the atomic bomb. This bomb was the pinnacle of all bombs. its destructive power matched that of twenty-thousand tons of TNT. The Manhattan project started when Pearl…

many people feared that Hitler would build an atomic bomb after word spread that German scientist had split the uranium atom (fission). However, one of Hitler’s mistakes was his persecution of Jewish scientists. This persecution resulted in numerous scientists seeking asylum in the United States. One such scientist was Albert Einstein. Einstein, abandoning his belief in pacifism, then urged president Franklin Roosevelt to develop an atomic bomb before Hitler did. Eventually, Roosevelt agreed and…

United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The way these bombs were created and discovered…

The United States began to enter the war when the Japanese attacked the United States’ naval base, Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii. This established an international tension between the United States and Japan. Japan’s main objective was to take over lands throughout in East Asia so they would not have to depend western imports all the time. Tension between America and Japan rose when the Japanese army invaded and attempted to claim Manchuria in 1931. The Rape of Nanking also triggered the United States…

were certain weapons that people were biased to either use or not use. In the War against Japan, the US was debating to drop the atomic bomb. There are three main arguments why they should and three why they shouldn’t. Japan was an enemy to the United States at one point. The United States believed in dropping the atomic bomb in Japan. One reason was the bomb saved American lives. People believed it was necessary to end the war as soon as possible. Ending the War early would prevent the number…

have dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dropping the bombs did allow for a swift end to the war, but thousands of people, citizens and soldiers alike, were still murdered, and both Japanese cities were decimated. People are still suffering from the leftover radiation today. The United States should not have dropped the atomic bomb. With knowledge of this new power the world would have something new and very dangerous to fight over. After effects of the bombs were not known at the…

"World War II: Second Atomic Bomb That Ended the War." History Net Where History Comes Alive World US History Online. January 1997. http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-second-atomic-bomb-that-ended-the-war.htm. In this article, Glines provides us an inside look on the mission of the drop of the second atomic bomb. In detail he describes the steps that were taken leading up to the drop and how…

spots a terrorist who plans to detonate a bomb that could risk lives of many. The officer made the choice to tase the terrorist just enough to paralyze him from making the bomb go off. Another case was the “interrogation case” that speaks about a terrorist planting a bomb somewhere and security services using electric shocks to get the terrorist to speak on the whereabouts of the bomb. Another scenario about torture that was discussed was about a retired bomb…

lives, both Allied and Japanese. An atomic bomb was being prepared to drop on the city of Hiroshima. As I said before the bombing was about to end a 4 year-long war. The pacific war was a bloody, hard fought war by both the United States and the Japanese.…

bombing was not justified. The bomb used was the largest bomb ever used yet in history of welfare and was far more destructive than the bomb used on Pearl Harbor. The United States responded brutally, and unnecessarily. Things could have been handled way differently. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unjustified because many innocent lives were lost, the U.S. could have handled the matter in a less brutal way, the U.S. was unaware the outcome of the atomic bomb. The bombing of Hiroshima…