Why Was The Atomic Bomb Invented

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only time in our world's history that the atomic bomb has been used. The most asked question of World War II is was the Atomic bomb needed at all? In this essay I will discuss with you how the Atomic bomb was made, the casualties, and the men that put in work to make it happen.
The main reason why the Atomic bomb was invented was because the Americans were afraid that the Nazi’s were going to invent it first. Albert Einstein personally wrote a letter to Roosevelt expressing his concern about the Nazi’s inventing a weapon of mass destruction. While German nuclear scientists Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Diebner, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Niels Bohr were kidnapped by the Hitler and his Nazi party to develop a

It was a fourteen kiloton bomb. It generated enough explosive power to equal 15,000 sticks of dynamite.This bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by Colonel Paul Tibbets pilot of the B-29 sky fortress “Enola Gay”. They were ordered to drop a bomb on Hiroshima but they were unaware of the type of bomb they were carrying. The crew of the Enola Gay recalled the explosion of the bomb as “sitting on a metal trash can and somebody hitting it with a baseball bat.” Hiroshima was home to 280,000 to 290,000 civilians, and 43,000 soldiers. When the bomb was dropped in about 0.001 seconds the temperature reached several million degrees Fahrenheit. Everything in a 1.6 Kilometer radius everything was instantly vaporized. An estimated 90,000 to 160,000 people were believed to have died in the four month period after the bomb. The people that survived the blast were affected with really bad burns, radiation blindness, and radiation sickness. The bomb would not of been so devastating if all the buildings in Hiroshima were built from a flimsy and very tinder wood that could catch fire easily and burn for