On August 9th, 1941, a single bomb was dropped into a Japanese industrial area. The bomb was decimated with an equivalent force of 22 thousand sticks of TNT, which resulted in people seeing it over 100 miles away. It generated temperatures over 3900 degrees centigrade and generated winds up to 600 miles per hour. At least 129,000 people were either killed on the day or would die in the weeks and years that followed. Six days after the attack, Japan surrendered to the Allies, bringing a close to the most destructive active conflict in recorded history that ended within the first two and so far only two nuclear attacks in history. It was the second world war. On December 7th, 1942, the U.S. naval base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, was subject to an attack that was one of the greatest military surprises in the history of warfare. In less than 2 hours, the U.S. Pacific fleet was devastated, and more than 3,500 Americans were killed or wounded. On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered this Day of Infamy speech. He stated It was just the kind of unexpected thing the Japanese would do. At the very time, they were discussing peace in the Pacific, they were plotting to overthrow it. Immediately afterward, Congress declared war, and the United States entered World War 2. …show more content…
The Manhattan Project was the codename for the secret U.S. government research and engineering project during the Second World War that developed the world's first nuclear weapons. The atomic bomb was used by the U.S. to force quick surrender by the Japanese to reduce the number of American lives