The Cold War: The Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs

Since the dropping of the Atomic bombs on Japan, humans have been in a constant struggle to build the best and most dangerous bombs we have ever seen. This struggle was piloted by two nations in particular, the United States and the Soviet Union. These two nations fought for supremacy in the nuclear age in an event called the Cold War. It was called the Cold War because it never got hot; although both of the countries were able to create many power bombs and many breakthroughs in their technology, both sides realized what would happen if they launched nukes at each other. After both sides came to an agreement over their nuclear weapons, they were slowly decommissioned and their payload of nuclear material was converted into fuel for the new

(8) Every country has a common cycle that they go through when developing their methods of energy creation; this cycle includes burning large amounts of fossil fuels without any care for the environment because they are cheap to use. Without any government regulation of the fossil fuel plants in these developing countries, it could spell trouble for the environment as these plants would be introducing large amounts of soot into the air which would damage the area around them as well as the citizens in those areas. But if you use nuclear you have almost no carbon emissions and much more power being produced than in a coal fired plant. But we must think of our own country before

Up until the time of the nuclear bombs being dropped, the United States military was preparing a full scale invasion and dubbed it Operation Downfall. Operation Downfall would have been a joint attack made on the Japanese homeland by allied countries and Russia that would require at least 2.5 million American troops and would take until October of 1946 to complete at the earliest. (4) According to declassified documents by the Joint War Plans Committee, the invasion expected heavy casualties on all sides with an expected 550 thousand Americans dead, injured, or missing. The Americans would not allow this number of casualties to become a reality since there had already been over 200 thousand lives spent on invading the Asian islands. The dropping of the two bombs was able to stop an all-out invasion, saving hundreds of thousands of American lives, as well as millions of Japanese lives as only 230 thousand. But even the dropping of the atomic bombs do not hold the record of deadliest air raid ever. That record goes to Operation Meetinghouse lead by General Curtis