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    Atomic Bomb Dbq

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    Atomic bombs can hurt about 100,000 people. They can get burns, radiation sickness, or even die from just one drop of this bomb. America and Japan have fought for four years, and Japan wouldn’t surrender. To make them surrender, America’s scientists created an atomic bomb, and dropped it onto Japan, and they finally surrendered. This nuclear weapon was needed to end war. The bombs did stop war and ended the rivalry between the two countries. Although, the bombs would pass along to other nations,

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    Atomic Bomb Essay

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    On the morning of August 6, 1945, the first Atomic Bomb in history was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Soon after, on August 14, 1945, the Japanese abruptly surrendered, abandoning their ancient customs regarding honor in war. The fact that only two bombs were able to bring an entire country to its knees is a true testament to the awesome power they held. There is nothing in modern warfare that can compete with the devastating effects

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    Japanese. Everyone wanted the war to end, so the United States decided to use an atomic bomb on 2 Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Americans hoped that the dropping of the bombs would make Japan surrender, and they did. The United States has been developing atomic weapons even before their involvement in World War two. Starting in the 1940`s the United States had been working on making a new weapon, the atomic bomb. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. began their

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    Essay On The Atomic Bomb

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    August 6, 1945, on this day the most destructive man-made force was dropped on Hiroshima. The atomic bomb killed on impact an estimated 140,000 people including many innocent men, women, and children and another 10,000 just from the nuclear fallout. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki which had killed about 75,000. Throughout history there have been a number of discoveries that have led up to that point such as Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the discovery of nuclear fission

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    The Atomic Bomb Of Japan

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    It is true to say that the Japanese deserved to have two atomic bombs dropped on two industrial cities in the span of just around three days? Is it also true to say that is was alright for thousands of innocent Japanese lives to be sacrificed for the sake of showing the power of the United States to the then Soviet Union? Is the use of the atomic bomb something that can be justified even after it have killed and has a lasting effect on certain lands in Japan? This cannot be justified because of the

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    Essay On The Atomic Bomb

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    first atomic bombs were dropped in a race to end World War II. The first nuclear bomb, ‘Little Boy’, dropped over Hiroshima, Japan wiped out ninety percent of the city and immediately killed thousands. Three days later, a second atomic bomb dropped on this time over the city of Nagasaki. The bombs were created by scientists who worked in secret for years on "The Manhattan Project" to perfect weapons that would bring an end to the long and traumatizing fight of World War II. The use of the atomic bomb

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    The Atomic Bomb On Japan

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    I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.” The impact of the bomb wiped out an entirety of people, but it also created new visions on arms and the future for all people. The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945 was both beneficial and harmful to the United States and Japan which also left positive and negative impressions on other parts

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    ‘The Atomic Bomb; a bomb which derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity’. On August 6 1945, at 8:15 am local time, the city of Hiroshima in Japan, home to 350 000 people, became the first victim of the destructive war weapon. As of this vicious and devastating day, world history was changed forever. The long and short-term significance of this event shaped the way in which people

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    Essay On The Atomic Bomb

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    Atomic bomb is a nuclear device designed to produce enormous explosive energy. Atomic bomb also called atom bomb is a weapon with a surge explosive power that can result from the sudden release of energy upon breaking off, or to provide energy in an explosive manner. Atomic bomb referred also as a thermonuclear bomb or hydrogen bomb; they are usually as nuclear weapon. The better way to describe them by coining of the world kiloton (1000 tons) to represent blast energy. August 6, 1945 The President

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    The Beginnings of the Atomic Bomb

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    of the Atomic Bomb World War 2 was one of the worst wars in world history. The allied forces, the U.S., France, China, Russia, and Great Britain, were at war against the axis powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan, to stop the nazis from taking over the world. There were many bad events and battles that happened over the 6 year time span of the war; but one of the worst has to be the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings at the end of the war. Some people say that the U.S. Needed to drop the bombs to save

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