The United States government secretly spent billions of dollars on a program code-named the Manhattan Project. Its highest national priority: developing an atomic bomb. The project was encouraged by Albert Einstein himself and led by J Robert Oppenheimer. In a barren desert in New Mexico, on the morning of July 16, 1945, the bomb was tested. The flash of light could be seen 180 miles away.
President Truman did not agonize over the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. For the President abstract ethical issues did not outweigh very real American lives and an opportunity to end the war. Later some historians would condemn Truman's decision. What would you have done?
"Little Boy" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., commander of the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare. TheHiroshima bombing was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity test, and the first uranium-based detonation. It exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ). The bomb caused significant destruction to the city of Hiroshima.
1 yes because what they did to us they deserved it/no because alot of innocent people. I would pray a lot, but a lot of soldiers drink and did drugs to forget about it. Some of them come even killed them selves.
ReplyDelete2 Japan's leaders said Hiroshima forced them to surrender because it made a terrific explanation for losing the war, but facts show that they didn't, because both the Supreme War Council and the Cabinet were deadlocked on what to do next.