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The Pros And Cons Of The Atomic Bomb

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What is the Atomic Bomb?
What is the atomic bomb and is it good or bad or is it both this will be answered in this passage It can be used for good or bad intentions. The invention was made by Robert Oppenheimer in Los Alamos New Mexico as a secret project under the code name “the Manhattan Project.” This shows how the bomb works “Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of a heavy atom into smaller pieces, which releases gigantic amounts of energy” (Daniel J). This shows how the massive explosion is caused by extreme heat and pressure. which allows for immense damage to where is hits and blows up and it can kill but is can also stop killing.
Then the first combat test came on August 6th, 1945, at 8:15 am in Hiroshima Japan the “Little Boy” was launched and instantly killed 70- 80’000 people. Later it would vertex at 135’000. Due to people dying of radiation poisoning. Then the second one was launched called “Fat Man” another 60-80’000 will soon die in Nagasaki. This catastrophic damage was enough to stop the Japanese from invading China and attacking the USA anymore. (And two peace bridges at the park were sculpted by the American artist Isama Noguchi. Millions of paper cranes, the Japanese symbol for longevity …show more content…

At this time both sides of the two dominions of countries had nuclear power on their side, and they loathe each other’s ideologies and the Soviet Union. Wanted to spread the idea of communism to the world but the U.S.A did not want their way of living, so they menace to us the atomic bomb is they tried to invade. That show that the atomic bomb stopped a potential invasion from Russia. nevertheless president gorge H.W Bush said, “By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.” his say that after the cold war President a George H.W. Bush was thankful for winning the war because the U.S bombs was one of the only things that come to an end of the USSR from

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“Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if monster steamroller has passed over it and squashed it out of existence” (Wilfred Burchett). This quote tells how bad of an effect the bomb had on the city and people. About 150,000 people were killed on August of 1945 in Hiroshima. Most people died of radiation, burns, and the explosion.

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A second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki three days later. This bomb was called "Fat Man". The atomic bombs are said to have killed 70,000 people instantly and around 100,000 more people died from radiation sickness and burns. (ushistory.org)

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The atomic bombs had been developed by the U.S. over the course of World War II under the Manhattan Project. President Harry Truman then decided to use them on Japan in a desperate attempt to end the war. Despite the fact that it saved American lives, the dropping of the atomic bombs on

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The bomb that killed thousands of innocent lives which will determine the outcome of the war. On August 6, 1945, during World War II , an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first ever atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 civilians; thousands of more would later die due to radiation poisoning. A few days later, a second B-29 dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 civilians. The amount of casualties totaled over 150,000 civilians.

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It was a calm August morning in the year 1945, and citizens were out living their lives as normal, getting groceries, playing at the park, and walking to work, little did everyone in what was the beautiful town of Hiroshima know, there was an atomic bomb right above their heads. Boom. Simultaneously 70,000 innocent lives were lost. 30,000 more lives were taken later on due to the atomic bomb. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two Japanese cities that the United dropped the Atomic Bomb on in 1945 to try & bring an end to World War 2.

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On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an Atomic bomb called the Little Boy on Hiroshima in Japan. A few days later the united states dropped another atomic bomb called the Fat man on the city of Nagasaki. The dropping of an atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the wars quickly, as Japan saw the devastating effects it had on their people and country. The decision to drop the bomb was a very hard one to agree on but changed lives for others. There are many pros and cons of the atomic bombs.

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In 1945 World War 2 was coming to an end, President Truman was faced with a very tough decision on whether or not to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. On August 6 1945 an American B-29 bomber dropped the worlds first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, three days later another B-29 bomber dropped a second bomb on the city of Nagasaki in total the bombs killed well over a hundred thousand people. The use of the atomic bombs were necessary to end the war on Japan, although the bombs killed many people the use of the bombs saved hundreds of thousands of American lives, and eneded Japan’s reign of terror on the world. People believed that with only two atomic bombs ready that it was too risky to use one on a demonstration showing off the power of the bomb.

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Theodore Roosevelt once said, “I believe the more you know about our past, the better you are prepared for the future.” Never has this quote been more relevant than in the debate of the questionable decision made by President Truman to drop the Atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For years this decision has been debated, backed by insurmountable amounts of evidence on both sides of the argument. Was there another way to break the will of the Japanese? Was there any way to avoid death and destruction?

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First used in war on August 6, 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on to Hiroshima killing thousands. On that fateful day a door was opened out of which came a monster the world had no idea how to deal with. The ability to destroy a massive amount of the population so effortlessly has created a world-wide issue that continues to this day. Tension runs rampant in international relations, many times due to the power behind atomic bombs and the advancements thereafter. There has been controversy over whether or not U.S. President Truman made the right decision by using the atomic bomb on Japan.

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The US was suffering from many casualties in their island hopping military strategy, and the naval blockade of Japan was causing hundreds of thousands of deaths due to malnutrition, famine, and dehydration. The US already had a high amount of deaths from invading Iwo Jima and Okinawa in February and April 1945. It is under debate, but if they followed through with the proposed two stage invasion, Operation Olympic and Coronet, the US casualties could range from 125,000 to over 400,000 to the War Department's estimate of millions. While the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had highest-end estimates of 140,000 and 74,000 victims (Tomonaga). As well as the invasions, incendiary bombs were previously dropped on Japan, but did not stop Japanese attacks.

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Flying as fast as he could away from Hiroshima, he knows the atomic bomb, Little Boy has just exploded. He feels the Enola Gay shudder from the shock wave of the blast and knows the city of Hiroshima was no more. This is what Colonel Paul Tibbets and his crew experienced on the morning of August 8th, 1945 at around 8:20 am. This was a day that changed the history of the world forever, as a new type of player was introduced to the game of war, the atomic bomb, a superweapon of mass destruction. It was developed by the Americans during the Manhattan Project and was unlike anything the world had ever known.

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Atomic Bomb is a bomb which contains nuclear energy to release the destructive power of nuclear energy which causes damage through heat, blast, and radiation. The first atomic bomb was made on August 6, 1945. The dropping bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was made in America to drop in Japan. Sources mentioned that they were numerous reasons for dropping the bomb. Sources mentioned that the dropping of the atomic bomb was to force Japan to surrender as soon as possible because it would help minimize US casualties.

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The initial formation of the Manhattan Project in June 1942 during World War II led to the intensive wartime research in the United States that produced the first atomic bombs in the world, ushering in a nuclear arms race between the United States and Soviet Union. Research and funding to develop nuclear weapons eventually became the top-secret Manhattan Project wartime program. With over $2 billion authorized for the project, the United States emerged successful in creating the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico. Just one month later, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, killing over a hundred thousand people in total.

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1. Immediate Aftermath On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., an atomic bomb by the name of “Little Boy” detonated 1,900 feet above the city of Hiroshima. The bomb exploded directly above the Shima Surgical Clinic with the force of about 16 kilotons of TNT, causing the burst temperature to exceed 1 million degrees Celsius and creating a massive fireball measuring 840 feet in diameter. The explosion killed an estimated 70,000 to 80,000 and injured a similar number.

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The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nuclear attacks: Hiroshima is the capital city of Hiroshima prefecture in japan; the city’s name means “Broad Island”, in august 2016 they estimated the city’s population of 1,196,274 , Hiroshima is best known as the first city in the history to be targeted by a nuclear bomb, when the united states army air forces dropped the bomb on the city on august 6,1945 near the end of the WW2, and as in for Nagasaki , it is also a city in japan , and the next atomic bomb was dropped on it after 3 days from the first attack in Hiroshima , in the date of august 9 , 1945 , only to make this city the last city in the world to experience a nuclear attack. The two bombings killed at least 129,000 in average, 140,000 people died

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