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On August 9th, 1945 a second bomb was dropped by the United states, at Nagasaki resulting in a final surrender from Japan. General Leslie R. Forests, the man in charge of sorting out the Manhattan Project, which tackled the issue of creating and conveying the atomic blast, evaluated that another iota bomb which would be prepared to use against Japan by August 17th or 18th, however council members who were ambitious in ending the war decided to drop the bombs earlier and dote on Japan’s…

Einstein advised President Truman on creating a nuclear bomb. (“Nuclear Bomb”) This bomb was meant to be the most powerful weapon ever used in military history. The Manhattan Project was the codename for America 's research in trying to create the world 's first atomic bomb. Once America succeeded in this discovery, two bombs were dropped on Japan to end the war. The exploration of new and more dangerous military weapons like the atomic bomb was justified because it demonstrated the power of the…

discovery of atoms, and later the splitting of atoms. This eventually lead to the use of atomic energy and its use to create a weapon far more destructive than any of those before it, the atomic bomb. This was a major breakthrough for the scientific and military community. In the 1940s, the United states created two atomic bombs that were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bomb changed the world forever, and it was known by scientists and politicians at the time…

Introduction In 1945 the United States took part in conflict with the Japanese as a result of the atrocities that took place at Pearl Harbor. A significant amount of Japanese civilians were wounded as a direct result of the bombings. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans were spaced out by two days as they occurred on August 6th and August 9th respectively. As a result, approximately 200,000 Japanese were wounded with 130,000 fatalities . Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki…

troops had made its way into Germany. Hitler committed suicide, then Soviet troops took Berlin and on May 8 the war against Germany came to its conclusion. After taking back the Philippines and Guam in 1944, U.S. forces located in the Pacific made its way closer to Japan. In the 1944 presidential election, Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term. However, on April 12, 1945, he died before the Allies…

Japanese would surrender by delivering two atomic bombs. Conditions of surrender were given, where Japanese would not have to fear total annihilation and would be free to choose a political system and develop economy once demilitarized. However, Japan would not surrender, and American policy makers said bombs must be used. Americans released the Little Boy, a 9,700 Uranium bomb above Hiroshima, and important Japanese military and communication center. The bomb caused total devastation for…

Oppenheimer such as the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb, and the ending of World War II, were the most significant. Oppenheimer was born into a well educated family in the heart of New York City (Scherer and Fletcher, 20). He became a physicist, following a path through quantum mechanics and when the time came, the leader of the Manhattan Project. Initially, “there was no central scientific authority running the project” (Scherer and Fletcher, 53-54) which considerably…

the atomic bomb actually began, though, as an attack on Nazi Germany. Albert Einstein alerted the American government that the Germans were developing atomic weapons and soon the Manhattan Project began. Robert Oppenheimer was in charge of the project to build an atomic bomb to counter Germany. Enrico Fermi designed the first successful nuclear reactor in 1939 and created it in 1942 at the University of Chicago as part of the project. On July 16, 1945 they detonated the world’s first atomic bomb…

The Manhattan Project was the codename for the classified government inquiry project to build atomic bombs. The scientists needed to work swiftly for the enemy’s attempt to build atomic bombs. The Manhattan Project took a stand by racing against the clock to develop atomic bombs. It also took a stand in World War II, in science, and in politics. World War II took place from 1939 to 1945. The main countries that supported Hitler’s regimes were Germany, Italy, and Japan. The other side…

The Decision of Dropping the Atom Bombs on Japan World War 2, the most destructive war in all of history, its exact cost in human lives is unknown, but casualties in World War II may have totaled 50 million service personnel and civilians killed. Nations suffering the highest losses, military and civilian, in descending order, were the USSR, Germany, China, and Japan. The most controversial loss was that of Japan from the decisions made to drop atom bombs that were looked at as the most…