The History Of The A-Bomb And Hioshima

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Term Paper Title	The History Of The A-Bomb And Hioshima
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The History of the A-Bomb and Hioshima

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 atomic bombs 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 an  destruction of both 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 supply.  Both of these, water and uranium, were needed to make the atomic bomb.  Therefore, the United States initiated a top secret program called the Manhattan Project.  Even the Vice President didn't know about this project.  The Manhattan Project cost over 2 billion dollars.  Yet, Congress never voted to fund this program (Hoare, 1987, 10-14).  Roosevelt authorized scientists to find out if an atomic bomb could be built.  On December 2, 1942, scientists working in a secret laboratory under the bleachers 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, the Alsos (a troop sent to find how far the Germans had come in the building of the atomic bomb) radioed back that they had given up in their attempt to make it.  Still, despite scientists' pleas with the President to discontinue it, the U.S. maintained the work on their atomic bomb (Conrad, 1982, 12-16).  In Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated in the desert.  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. ("World War II", 1997, 1-2).  After the bomb exploded, Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, said, "Behold.  I have become death, destroyer of worlds." (Hoare, 1987, 18)
     When Harry Truman became President after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, he appointed a committee to advise him about the atomic bomb.  The committee was headed by Secretary of War, Henry Stimson.  The committe...

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