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Atomic Bomb
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... Spector
June 9, 2003
Why did the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? ... The politics are so complicated that hundred thouthand people can be killed in the matter of three seconds just by dropping the single atomic bomb? ... atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and, three days later, Nagasaki, brought an end to World War 2. But the arrival of the atomic age, and the brutal evidence of just how effective this new weapon was, tained the ensuring peace." ("The Atomic Age"). ... "The United States in late 1941 established a secret program, which came to be known as the Manhattan Project, to develop an atomic bomb, a powerful explosive nuclear weapon. ... Robert Oppenheimer, was to build an atomic bomb before Germany did. ... Truman became president and inherited the bomb-development program. ... "In july 1945, Allied scientists had explored a terrible new weapon, the atomic bomb. ... The atomic bomb can be captured by terrorists for their threats and demands. The one conflict between the countries can trriger the nuclear war, because the atomic bomb is the most advanced strategic and tactic weapon. ... The United States came up with the quick ideas of the atomic bomb usage. ... Second, possession of the bomb would enable the United States, and not the USSR, to control postwar policy. ... The American military planners wanted to use the bomb in order to dominate and become a superpower. ... After talking for days with military and political advisers, Truman desided to use the bomb. ... Not knowing about the atomic bomb, the Japanese government paid no attantion to Trumans warning. ... "Should the United States use the bomb to finally end the war with Japan? ... Scientists who developed the bomb debated what to do with it. ... "Truman was the central figure in three controversal issues concerning the military to the civilian Atomic Energy Commision and on placing authority to use the bomb solely with the president. ... He had already been informed of the successful detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico, ten days earlier.
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Title: Atomic Bomb
Words: 1655
Rating: None
Pages: 6.6
submitted by: Romanski
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