Dark Bombs: A Short Story

Have you ever been really nervous because if you don't win a race to build the world most dangerous weapon you are in a critical condition of dying? The best part of the book is when Japan refuses to surrender. The only option is to drop atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It was intelligently planned to drop bombs there because it would, of course, scare many. Not only that but Nagasaki and Hiroshima were really unarmed for something like the world's most dangerous weapon in the world (the atomic bomb). In the book The Bomb by, Steve Sheinkin writes about how most countries in the world is in a race to build the first atomic bomb. The U.S. successfully makes the bomb and ends the war. The author Steve Sheinkin fully describes how the conflict

Many people know what it feels like for one action or event to change the whole course of a day, a year, or maybe your whole life. The book The Bomb, by Theodore Taylor, is set on a Pacific Island called Bikini Atoll. During World War II, the Americans took over the atoll from the Japanese, who were in control at the time. The main character, Sorry Rinamu, is grateful for being freed by the Americans. However, after the war, the Americans wanted to test another Atomic Bomb, and they chose to test it for research at Bikini Atoll. The conflict that drives the plot is that Sorry tries to stop the Americans from testing the bomb on his home (person vs society). The two primary ways it generates the plot are when most islanders agree to have their atoll taken away by the Americans and when Sorry gets the radical idea to stop the test from happening from his uncle, Abram Rinamu.

The dropping of the Atomic Bomb changed not only warfare forever, but also all international relations. With that being said, the decision to do so was one of the biggest decisions made by any government in the history of time. Nuclear warfare was way more destructive and way faster than any other form of warfare preceding. With the United States seemingly always viewed to be “the good guys” it is puzzling that this country is the same one who killed hundreds of thousands of people all at once and essentially ruined not one but two entire cities within minutes of dropping two single bombs. This decision was not taken lightly, and with basically two schools of thought, liberalism vs. realism, insisting to do so or not to do so, and realism won out. Realism and the many counterparts that strengthen this school of thought is what drove the decision to go ahead and drop the atomic bomb.

The origins of the Manhattan Project go back to 1939, when Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard, who had moved to the U.S. in 1938 to conduct research at Columbia University, became convinced of the feasibility of using nuclear chain reactions to create new, powerful bombs. German scientists had just conducted a successful nuclear fission experiment, and based on those results, Szilard was able to demonstrate that uranium was capable of producing a nuclear chain reaction. Szilard noted that Germany

we warned the Japanese ahead of time to clear the military base at Hiroshima of people,

Lack of authority and diffidence is a major theme in the novel, “The Bomb” by Theodore Taylor. In this essay, I will write about this struggle that several of the main characters are confronted with throughout the story. One of the main characters in particular, Abram Makaoliej, is a strong activist against meekness and self-doubt. He encourages the rest of the village people of Bikini to stand for what they believe in, and he even delivers a message to me to never give up.

President Truman stood in the oval office full of many advisors, but was truly alone ready to make the hardest decision, which would change the world forever. Is dropping the bomb the right decision for the president to make?

Nestled in a huge dip of land, in Boone, Iowa, is a tiny girl’s camp with cabins tucked into the trees called Bear Creek. Owned by the LDS church, this little piece of wilderness becomes my home away from home, five days during the summer. This collection of stories comes from the summer of 2015, and is a collage of my fondest memories from that week.

A fight is taking place is Israel over whether or not Israelis should be able to lead or even live in what used to be Palestine. The U.N. gave half of Palestine to the Jews and then they started leading and taking more land. Everyone there needs somewhere to live, so who should be able to live there?

Next, I would like to talk about how the atomic bombs completely shattered Japanese view of their culture. I interviewed my grandmother who lived 50 miles away from Nagasaki. During this time, many Japanese people believed dying meant honor and devoting their lives to the Emperor. When she was young schoolgirl, her and other classmates were expected to recite the “Military Song” to instill the patriotic spirit of the Japanese. Every day, the neighbors continuously travel by boat to Nagasaki for work normally, until the day the world heard about the Hiroshima atomic bomb. People viewed Japan as indestructible and that was shattered after the bomb was released again, hitting Nagasaki. The information traveled from word of mouth. Although, she

One of the documents above is from the Manhattan project, documenting the development of the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb was created to try and stop the World War Two. The people of the United States greatly did not want to use the bomb to end the war. The American citizens, and their government, did not know the rule of Bushido. Bushido is a code of honor in the culture of the Japanese. It bans all possible situations to dishonor one 's self or the family of the same person. The person who wrote the document is Henry Dewolf Smyth. He talks about their need of plutonium and the development of the atomic bomb, and he starts to work on it, along with his co workers. “ The ultimate responsibility for our nation 's policy rests on its citizens and they can discharge such responsibilities wisely only if they are informed. The average citizen cannot be expected to understand clearly how an atomic bomb is constructed or how it works but there is in this country a substantial group of engineers and scientists who can understand such things and who can explain the potentialities of atomic bombs to their fellow citizens.”( Preface). In this he states that all of the citizens have a duty to keep their secrets to themselves, and not tell anything to the USSR or any other nation. The document came from the atomic archive which is a very credible source, and the limitation of it is that it only covers the side of the US but it also gives an indepth look at the Manhattan project from the

You jump to your feet at the slightest murmur of an attack. It's dark inside the bunker, and everywhere you look is blackness. Shells pound the ground no more than 50 meters in front of your position, rattling the fillings loose in your skull. Quickly you fumble in the darkness, looking for your rifle and helmet, but there's something odd about this attack. There's no explosion

I think Mary should drop the bomb tonight, and tells Bob that she has a three children. She needs to do that because honesty is important in every relationship. Also, when Mary tells Bob about her children, she will know if he really loves her. Because I think when someone is in love they will accept anything that the other person has, and in Mary situation Bob may accept that. However, if she will not tell Bob tonight, they may have a big conflict because she did not tell about her children, so they may break

After beginning his new life, it was an obvious decision for Otto to forget the other one. He held no positive memories about his previous world; at least, no positive memories regarding the people or experiences which originated in that world. In his limited time there, most had disregarded him as a mere copy of an original, and nothing more. Barely even considered a living creature, ’Mother’ created him as a tool; an insignificant commodity she could modify when needed, torture, punish, and then tear to pieces and destroy again.

August 6th, 1945, 70,0000 lives were ended in a matter of seconds. The United States had dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Today many argue whether or not the U.S. should have taken such a drastic measure. Was it entirely necessary that we drop such a devastating weapon? To answer that first we must look at was going on in the world at the time of the conflict. The U.S. had been fighting a massive war since 1941. Moral was most likely low, and resources were at the same level as moral. Still both sides continued to fight and both were determined to win. Obviously the best thing that could have possibly happened would have been to bring the war to a quick end with a minimum of allied casualties. Harry Truman’s decision to