Lower Manhattan

The “Petition to the President” was an appeal to the government, but more importantly directed towards President Truman suggesting that there are other options versus a direct attack on Japan. The cosigners, team of 67 scientists responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb wanted to inform Truman the destructive power and grave consequences that could lead if the atomic weapon is used. The scientist would argue that Truman should offer Japan surrendering terms, not destruction and loss of…

In a matter of seconds seventy thousand people were killed. President Truman decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima Japan. Truman was trying to prove a point to Russia and the rest of the world that the United States isn’t a country to mess with. He also used it to end the war in the PTO. Was President Truman justified to drop the atomic bombs on Japan? From 1939-1945 World War 2 was going on. World War II was between the allies and the axis powers. A few months before the bomb was dropped…

Cook, Gareth. "Why Did Japan Surrender?" Boston.com. August 07, 2011. Accessed February 21, 2016. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/why_did_japan_surrender/?page=5. Writer Gareth Cook does a great job on informing the reader of the diverse arguments on whether the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war. He supports the questionable topic with arguments from a famous historian named Hasegawa. Hasegawa touches on the reaction of the Japanese government after…

T he Hindenburg was built by Germans and there were many people of different nationalities on board before it crashed including a German ministry (Colonel). This disaster started the end of the airship transportation. There was a total of ninety two people on the Hindenburg at the time that it crashed. The Hindenburg had a smoking lounge despite being filled with hydrogen at the time. The gas cells for earlier zeppelins were made of goldbeaters skin (the outer membrane of cattle intestines) the…

declare war with Japan. The attack on Pearl Harbor may have led to the decision to drop the bomb on Nagasaki. The bomb was not made as an offensive weapon. The Germans were clearly a threat when they started attempting to create the Atomic Bomb. The Manhattan Project was started to make Germany and other countries think before attacking the US (Barnes).…

Truman And The A-bomb So throughout this section of History we have been learning all about WW2 and how Hitler came into power on the E.T.O side and all about island hopping and fighting Japan. But the question I have been asked is to write about the A-bomb and if it was right for Truman to drop in on Japan twice. Here are some opinions on the A-bomb was it the right thing to do? Yes it was because we have been fighting and killing for so long so many lives gone. So when F.D.R passed away…

got its code name “Manhattan Project”. Colombia University, Chicago University and University of California were the first universities involved in the research. They made a breakthrough of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. After this the plan advanced in great speed. The plan had built plants around the United States. Neither the Germans or the Japanese could find out about their project, so it was kept a secret. In June 1942 the Corps of Engineers Manhattan District was…

After his time working on the Manhattan Project, Seaborg returned to the University of California, Berkeley, as a professor. Dr. Seaborg’s many advancements in the realm of nuclear science paved the way for the him to be appointed different positions. From 1954 to 1961, he was the Associate…

most of these buildings suffered extensive damage from interior fires, had their windows, doors and partitions knocked out, and all other fixtures, which were not integral parts of the reinforced concrete frame burned or blown away; the casualties in such buildings near the center of explosion were almost 100%. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T It had more than two thousand times the impact force of the British Grand Slam, which is the biggest bomb ever yet utilized as a part of…

To illustrate the devastating consequences of pesticide use on humans and the environment, Rachel Carson compares the hidden destruction of chemicals to the unmistakable effects of nuclear warfare. During WWII, the United States and other countries began experimenting with nuclear weapons, such as the bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the effects were instant, with around two hundred thousand deaths from the bombs and many more from burns and radiation. Carson’s book, written…