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How Did The Us Use Atomic Bomb In 1945

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How did the dropping of atomic bombs in 1945 impact the U.S. and U.S. history? Hiroshima was the first military target of a nuclear weapon in history. This occurred on August 6, 1945, in the Pacific theater of World War II, at 8:15 a.m., when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on the city. The Manhattan Project used the atomic bomb, hoping to bring the war to a quick end. The year 1945 marked a turning point in world history as the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hiroshima was a devastating event, causing exposure to the blasts and, from the long-term side effects of radiation, passing on to their kids, and people mutated. The Japanese attacked …show more content…

fleet and buy them time in the Pacific and Southeast Asia. However, the bombing led to the end of World War II, reshaping global geopolitics, sparking debates over the morality of nuclear weapons, and influencing Cold War dynamics. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki “In 1940, the U.S. government began funding its own atomic weapons development program, which came under the joint responsibility of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the War Department after the U.S. entry into World War II. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was tasked with spearheading the construction of the vast facilities necessary for the top-secret program, codenamed “The Manhattan Project” (for the engineering corps’ Manhattan district). To avoid such a high casualty rate, Truman decided—over the moral reservations of Secretary of War Henry Stimson, General Dwight Eisenhower, and a number of the Manhattan Project scientists—to use the atomic bomb in the hopes of bringing the war to a quick …show more content…

The writing of the bomb's weight and blast ability offers insight into its massive destructive potential. The estimated death tolls indicate the devastating human cost of the bombings, stressing both the immediate and long-term effects of radiation. Another key impact is a historical account of the activities surrounding the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at some point in World War II. The choice-making system behind the use of atomic bombs with the aid of the US, such as the motivations and the effect of the bomb. Testimony of Yoshitaka Kawamoto “I remember that”. I could hear the sobs. Someone was calling his mother. But those who were still alive were singing the school song for as long as they could. I think I joined the chorus.“ I was so weak. My hair came off even the hair in my nose fell out. My hair started to come off about two weeks later. I became completely bald. I lost my eyesight, probably not because of the radioactivity, but because I became so weak. I couldn't see him for about three months. But I was only thirteen; I was still young, and I was still growing when I was hit by the A-bomb.” The survivor was young at the time of the bombing. “I went to Miyuki Bridge to get some water. At the river bank, I saw so many people collapse. And the small steps to the river were jammed, filled with people pushing

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The purpose of this book is to research and analyze how, why, and by whom the decision to use the atomic bomb was made in order to inform the public. The value of this source is that the author has written numerous academic papers in the past including another book: Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam. The analysis given also has the benefit of being written when a larger amount of sources are open to the public including access to primary sources that were previously closed to research. However, after checking one of the sources cited in the book, I found that Alperovtiz had misrepresented one of the sources that he used (see appendix). Although this raises the question of how accurate the narrative actually is, I believe that it is fairly reliable and thoroughly

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Document G tells the story of Akihiro, a survivor of the bomb. Akihiro passed away in 2011 and suffered permanent injuries from the bombing and permanent trauma. He describes the bomb and his experience as such, “I was actually blown about 10 meters… Everything collapsed for as far as I could see. I felt the city of Hiroshima had disappeared all of a sudden.

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On August 6th and 9th of 1945, the United States brought World War II to an end with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The actions taken by President Harry Truman to use the atomic bomb on Japan, would leave it to become one of the most controversial issues in history. There exists a variety of perspectives on the dropping of the atomic bomb, but none compare with the perspectives of Paul Tibbets and Yoshikata Kawamoto. General Paul Tibbits was a pilot for the United States Airforce and he flew the B-29 plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Whereas, Yoshikata Kawamoto was a thirteen year old boy who was at school in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing.

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The atomic weapon destroyed most parts of the a Japanese town of Nagasaki and Hiroshima .

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The Japanese had dropped the high explosives and incendiary bomb at Pearl Harbour which was the American naval bases. “We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbour, against those who have starved, beaten and executed American prisoners of war” (Compton,el al). The atomic bomb was in no way America’s first choice of to end the war because diplomacy was tried but didn't work for US so they drop the atomic bomb on japan. The Soviet Union declared the war on japan. On August 9 a second atomic bomb was dropped of the bomb after effects of the bomb were considered deadly in most account thousand more died as before other people died on the first atomic bomb attack o what what was known as the radiation poisoning.

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More japanese citizens either lost their lives or had serious injuries. There was also the aftermath of the bomb like radiation poisoning in the air causing many people in Japan to become sick and die. As horrible as this bomb was, it changed the course of history, and ended World War 2. Had it been my decision to bomb these japanese cities, history would remain unchanged, meaning I would have chose to bomb Japan.

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People rode their bikes, pushed wagons, walked and rode their boats down the river. They all had an idea something was going to happen from hearing about it on the radio and all the talk around town. Not knowing the exact time something was going to happen was horrifying for the people all over. The nuclear bomb that hit Hiroshima not only destroyed the environment but also destroyed the lives of both the people killed and the survivors that lost so much that day. As the bomb went off, the beautiful city of Hiroshima was destroyed within seconds.

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