Atomic Bombs
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945. The world would never be the same. This paper will discuss the significance of the dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how they led to the success of the Allied forces. It will also discuss how the United States developed the atomic bomb, the decision to drop the bomb, the weakening of Japan, the actual bombing and destruction of cities, the surrender of Japan and the impact the atomic bomb would have in the future.
During World War II, the United States was afraid that Germany would develop the atomic bomb first. Germany had taken over Norway, which was a heavy water supply and Czechoslovakia, which was a uranium ...
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of a football field in Chicago achieved the first man-made nuclear reaction. An atomic bomb could now be developed. Many scientists and other skilled workers participated in the making of the first atomic bomb. However, only few knew what they were making. In 1944, after D-Day, a spy was sent to find how far the Germans had come in the building of the atomic bomb; He reported that they had given up in their attempt to make it (Smyth, 145). Still, despite scientists' pleas with the President to discontinue it, the U.S. maintained the work on their atomic bomb. In Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated in the desert (Smyth, 150). The bomb was much more explosive than scientists thought it would be. The 100-foot tower, which housed the bomb, was totally destroyed by the blast. After the bomb exploded, Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, said, "Behold. I have become death, destroyer of worlds." (Feis, 170)
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The weather over Hiroshima was perfect. The B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb was named the Enola Gay. It was named after the maiden name of the pilot's mother. With the atomic bomb in the plane, as well as many extra devices, the bomber was 15,000 pounds over weight. Only a few days before, four overweight B-29 bombers crashed during takeoff. (Feis,180)
The Enola Gay took off from the island of Tinian, which the U.S. had conquered from Japan. The exact time it took off was 2:45 a.m.; its destination was 1,500 miles away. The bomber's crew was the 509th composite group. The atomic bomb was named Little Boy. Little Boy wasn't actually so little; it was ten ...
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