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scientists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner to begin stockpiling uranium ore. This decision was made due to fears that Nazi Germany was developing nuclear weapons of their own, and so a race begin between the countries to develop the atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project was established in 1942 to develop the atomic bomb, and, despite initial refusal by the British to do so, eventually collaborated with the United Kingdom’s (UK) atomic weapon research project, codenamed “Tube Alloys”. At this point…

The use of the atomic bomb is one of the most controversial topics discussed in United States history. One key figure involved in the decision-making process to use the bomb against Japan is Henry L. Stimson. Stimson served as the Secretary of War under President William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. Furthermore, he performed as the Secretary of State for President Herbert Hoover. In the book, Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against…

all originally designed for war. The atomic bomb was created by the United States government through the Manhattan project. According to Thomas P. Hughes Alexander Sachs “… played a critical role in bringing the attention of his friend Roosevelt to the threat of a German atomic bomb.” (Hughes 374). The physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was appointed by President Roosevelt to lead the Manhattan Project with General Leslie Groves which was assigned the task of creating a nuclear weapon before the…

Decades after the atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Americans still question whether it was a good idea to drop them. One of the reasons the bombs should have been dropped is the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The United States and Japan were at peace until Japan bombed a military base in Hawaii and afterward, president Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan. In his well-known infamy speech, FDR stated, “I ask that the Congress declare that since the…

August 7, 1945, Harry Truman, President of the United States of America paced his office as he considered the consummating destruction of Hiroshima, Japan. Just one day earlier, his responsibilities required him to make a world altering decision. As commander in chief of the U.S. Military, he had to choose whether or not to unleash the raw power of America’s newly developed atomic technology on Japan. Because they refused to surrender, Japan tasted that raw power not once, but twice. Three days…

Freshmen 9- India SocoMUN 2015 Nuclear Proliferation Summaries 1. Title: The development of nuclear weapons Adress: Date: Background On October 1939, after World War II the United States had begun a secret project called “The Manhattan Project.” This project was taken place after the suspicion that Germany had already begun working on an atomic bomb, that Hitler would eventually use to gain control over the entire world. By July 16, 1945 the first nuclear powered bomb was tested in a…

The Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a stepping stone for the United States of America, it would change the meaning of war forever. The development of the first Atomic bomb would put America in the lead, surpassing our enemies in World War II. The Project was one of the most secretive projects in the history of The United States and was a turning point in the history of twentieth-century science. This new bomb had the potential of nuclear annihilation and was also one of the most…

As the Second World War was nearing an end, with the surrender of Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945, the United States planned to defeat Japan for the last time. With that, the United States decided to employ the atomic bomb, resulting in millions of lives lost. While the United States had definite reasons for using the bomb on Japan, it had some of its detractors after the end of the war. These reasons included Japan’s perseverance not to surrender, a solution to end the war quickly while having as…

Atomic Bomb research started with The Manhattan Project, a project created as the United States feared fascist european countries were already researching in such topics, when fission was discovered during 1938, with this discovery scientist were able to tell that certain radioactive components could combine and form a lethal bomb. The United States the isotopes uranium-235 and plutonium-239, the reaction of this two isotopes they cause a chain reaction. According to The Columbia Encyclopedia…

Pearl HarborOn December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed pearl harbor a day in which the United States will never forget. What the pearl harbor attack caused us to do was to join a war that the US tried to avoid from joining.1 The war which was world war 2 and which the pearl harbor attack lead to the atomic bomb coming to be cause after the pearl harbor attack the US fired back by building the world’s strongest atomic bomb created in that era which was named little boy and dropped on Hiroshima which…