Manhattan Project Case Study Of Hiroshima Nagasaki

In the midst of World War II, August 1945, the United States unleashed the first ever atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The usage of the atomic bomb was effective, but at the same time devastating and unnecessary. The United States should not have dropped the atomic bomb because it maimed countless of Japanese civilians, caused radiation poisoning whose effects impacted future generations, left both cities in ruins, left citizens homeless, and it was absolutely unmoral for the United States to have created such havoc and chaos in these two cities. Being there on the day Hiroshima was struck by the atomic bomb, junior high student,

The United States decision to release the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a way to terrorize the Soviet Union. The United States terrorized the Soviet Union by revealing what they were capable of doing during war. Also, the United States wanted to posture the power they had obtained throughout time.

Intense moral justification was needed in order to make the decision to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki however, President Truman was ultimately the man who made the final decision to launch ‘Little Boy’ and destroy Hiroshima, Nagasaki and their civilians, thus forcing an end to the war. Although there were many alternatives presented to President Truman, it is unknown as to whether they would have actually succeeded in ending the war or producing less casualties. Truman made the decision to drop these bombs in the heat of war but his justification of having a military target appeared extremely unrealistic, as both cities were full of innocent civilians. The morality of the bombs have been debated over the years, however the publication of the actual damage to civilian life caused a strong voice opposed to the usage in the 60 years following the action.

In Hiroshima Mr. Tanimoto experience chance during The bombing. Mr.Tanimoto was a unjuried survivor in the book, and he found “by incredible luck, his wife. She was holding there”infant daughter”. Therefore this happening Mr. Tanimoto had amazing luck/chance. He had a very small chance to see his wife, but he did. Mr. Tanimoto had a small chance to see his wife during the bombing with being injured.

During the final stages of World War II, America dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The bomb meant victory for America, but devastation for Japan. The bomb not only incinerated innocent human lives, but it also influenced an ongoing arms race with other countries. The Manhattan Project was a secret organization made up of the most intelligent scientist whom were led by President D. Roosevelt. The primary objective for which it was created was to cause mass destruction and to quickly terminate the conflict with Japan. With President Roosevelt’s death, Vice-President Truman was induced into office as President. As the nation’s leader, Truman continued the Manhattan Project and issued a final warning to Japan known as the Potsdam Declaration. Japan’s refusal inadvertently caused one of the most inhumane destructions of all time - the dropping of the atomic bomb.

Japan’s emperor had his mind set on expanding his country through the South Pacific. He was halted and stopped by America’s vast amount of ships, which blocked their progress and way. By this, mayhem started. On December 7, 1941, the first aerial attack on America occurred. Japan flew across the Pacific Ocean, over Pearl Harbor, in the early morning. Bombs began to fall from the sky and started to cause havoc of the Americans located there. The battle lasted several hours, and many citizens died. Around two-thousand and four hundred people were killed, leaving another thousand wounded. Along with the deaths, about seventeen ships and 5 battleships were destroyed. Following the surprise attack from the Japanese, President Roosevelt called for a state of emergency. The next day, December 8, 1941, America declared war on Japan. America was seeking for a way of revenge on Japan. Before the

Under the presidency of Harry Truman, he had a choice on whether or not he should have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, however, he chose to use the first atomic bomb ever used in history to end the destructive war known was World War II. This has been a widely discussed topic on why Truman should have dropped the atomic bomb and if it was necessary. I believe that Truman should have dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because Japan was the first to attack the United States, more lives would have been lost for Americans, Japanese, and more nationalities, and Japan was issued a warning known as “prompt and and utter destruction.”

Towards the end of World War II, in Hiroshima, Japan, thousands died. The “Enola Gay dropped a 9,000 lb TNT bomb called “Little Boy.” Approximately 78,150 people died after one death count, but radiation was still lethal. Three days later, another bomb was dropped. “Fat Man,” dropped by “Bock’s Car,” was a Uranium-235 bomb, even though it did less damage than Hiroshima, the seaport of Nagasaki still was torn to pieces. Overall, there were approximately 23,753 lives taken by “Fat Man.” The Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not help America because it started the Cold War, killed many innocent Japanese people, and caused other countries to feel that we are more ruthless than the Japanese themselves.

1939 was one of the most disastrous years in human history. 1939 wasn’t just the start of the second world war, but it was also the start of one of the most dangerous projects in American history. The Manhattan project not only ended the war but would reshape the world.

Before the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States of America had already mad plans to invade Japan with several operations in the process. While the war in Europe ended on May 8,1945 when Nazi-Germany signed the "Instrument of surrender", the Pacific war continued. For many months, the U.S. had dropped as many as 63 million leaflets, intending to warn civilians of an air raid. USA called for surrender from the Japanese armed forces on July 26, 1945 with threats of "prompt and utter destruction."

On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. This event was considered to be a “dark and difficult chapter in U.S. history”. The bombing of Hiroshima has killed about 200,000 people and still haunts the lives of survivors. In addition, a survivor named Chisako Takeoka witnessed the bombing when she was 17 years old. She was knocked unconscious in a sweet potato field, but woke up to a devastating site. The article states, “She witnessed the horrors of a river filled with victims’ bodies, her mother's eye blown out of its socket by the blast, the loss of her son 18 days after birth due to radiation poisoning two years after the bomb”. To this day, many people still remember the destructive memories caused

In my opinion, the US was justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Firstly, the Japanese were not innocent because Japan already killed over 2,000 people at Pearl Harbor, they attacked without any warning which resulted encouraging the US to join WW2. In addition, the US did nothing to provoke the Japanese. The Japanese need to experience the horrors they’ve done to others. Secondly, The US tried to persuade the Japanese to surrender but they could never give in because the Japanese honor system taught that death was preferable than surrender, and Japanese people believed that it was a disgrace to do so. Additionally, they wanted to establish the survival

On august sixth in 1945, a fifteen kiloton atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was detonated one thousand, eight hundred feet over the ground. The plane that dropped the bomb was the Enola Gay, which is now at the Smithsonian in Washington DC. The same thing happened on August ninth over Nagasaki. seventy thousand people died due to this bomb. The effects of the atomic bomb are thermal and nuclear radiation. Radiation affects the skin and cell reproduction and can cause cancer. People in the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima experienced both long-term and short-term effects from the radiation. Though the bombing of Hiroshima brought the immediate end of World War Two, the use of the atomic bomb had grave effects on the people and

It has been seventy years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the Second World War in the Pacific Theatre. However, the unconditional surrender that was favored by the Allies was only accepted by Japan after the Soviet Union entry into the “Greater East Asia War” and the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is a common myth in the Western world that the nuclear bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” caused Japan to surrender and in turn saved the lives of thousands of American soldiers that were about to embark upon Operation Downfall, the invasion of Japan. However, decades after the war the idea that the nuclear bombing of Japan was a military necessity is not taken at face-value as it once was. Any historian who would explore the situation in the Pacific theater will find that most of the actions taken by the warring nations during the end were in reality very political in nature. This means that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have a political necessity instead of a military one. This political necessity was which nation would ‘win’ the surrender of the Japanese Empire. The United States of America and the Soviet Union were racing each other for the surrender of Japan for different reasons. The Soviets wanted to make sure that their prize promised to them at the Yalta Conference would be upheld. On the other hand the Americans wanted to win Japan’s surrender before the Soviets could launch an invasion on Japanese home

Though Hiroshima 's bombing was a terrible disaster, it undoubtedly brought the Japanese community together. The terror was undeniable, yet through the destruction people sacrificed themselves to save others. In the novel Hiroshima, written by John Hersey, even though many of the main characters are injured, they still stop to help others. The acknowledgement of others pain and suffering and developing empathy and sympathy for them, having the strength to give up your desires for a moment, having respect for yourself and others are qualities of humans that compel them to help others even if there is nothing to gain. It is only when we put faith in ourselves and others that we truly help others.