Soviet atomic bomb project

For the United States to even be able to bomb cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki with enough force, they needed…

to create an atomic weapon everything would head rapidly south. So the United States created an operation, The Manhattan Project, to begin our own nuclear experiments. This operation, in accordance with the sensitive nature, ended up as highly secretive and massively complicated. "Secrecy was paramount. Neither the Germans nor the Japanese could learn of the project. Roosevelt and Churchill also agreed that the Stalin would be kept in the dark..." If anyone got wind of this project it could…

The advent of nuclear weapon was paramount in the arms race between the Union of Soviet Republics (USSR) and the United States (US) during the Cold War. During the WWII, the US, Britain, Germany and the USSR were all engaged in scientific research to develop the atomic bomb.(US Department of state office of the historian,n.d) The development of the nuclear weapon by US through the Manhattan Project in 1942 and follow up of Soviet’s successful test of nuclear weapon soon after is a major…

States made by Japan, such as Pearl Harbor, left America with only one option; to fight back and end the war. With the help of great scientists and a top secret project, the United Sates worked hard and fast to create the first ever chain reaction between the splitting of atoms, that would also be known as an atomic bomb. The first atomic bomb to ever be used in warfare was used in 1945 on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These events killed and injured many Japanese citizens and…

Motivation for the Bomb As the Manhattan Project drew to an end, President Harry S. Truman knew he was coming upon the most difficult decision of his life. He could drop a bomb that would vaporize thousands of lives but would end a war in Japan, or he could continue on and cause more American, Allied, and Japanese military casualties. Truman decided to use the first atomic bombs ever made, codenamed “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”, to obliterate Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an attempt to end what was…

States was developing a means to end the warfront. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, an ambitious lead scientist, worked on the top-secret project called “The Manhattan Project”. Robert Oppenheimer was specialized nuclear fission theories. He worked with the project throughout and with supervision of the U.S. Army. Robert was essential to the developmental process of the atomic bomb. Robert Oppenheimer knew the statics of the destruction impact. He was faced with extremely tough calls of creation that…

During WWII, the Soviets were allies with the Allied powers. However, after the war ended, democratic countries were in a cold war against Soviet-run Communist nations that clearly wanted to spread communism throughout Eastern Europe. Many occurrences had Americans concerned about the expansion of communism, from the blockade of West Berlin by the Soviets in 1948, to Mao Zedong’s taking over of China in October 1948. Even though Americans were afraid of the spread of communism, they assumed that…

The Manhattan Project was in the early 1939. The German have found out how to make the first Uranium atom bomb. The Uranium atom bomb can do a lot of damage to a place if it happen to go off. Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi felt the need that the president needed to know of the great danger that may be ahead of them. Fermi traveled all the way to Washington to tell the government officials his concern, not a lot of them shared the same uneasiness that he did. Einstein then had to send a letter…

about the research of nuclear bombs in Nazi Germany. Hence, the U.S government began to conduct and fund their own researches on atomic weapon developments. This was called ‘The Manhattan Project’ which was a top secret facility in which the research and development of atomic weaponry created the first nuclear weapon. The morning of August 6th, 1945, represented a significant change in history in which a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb ‘Little Boy’ on…

Once man stopped fighting wars hand to hand with guns and swords, he took to the skies to drop bombs and spray bullets. It was only a matter of time before the price was too high for the collateral damage to be worth it. This militaristic milestone was reached by the creation of the atomic bomb in 1945. They decimated the target area, leaving nothing but shadow and ash in its wake. The fallout of the bombs ended the initial war, but provided the spark necessary to start all subsequent wars to…