Manhattan Project Effect
What is the Manhattan Project? And how did it affect the world?
The Manhattan Project was a secret project that was kept from public knowledge and even the vice president didn’t even know about the project until the completion of the project was nearly done. The Manhattan Project has hundreds of scientists and was based out of numerous locations spread through out the country and there were many testing sights but the most common testing sight was the one that was located in a desert in New Mexico and it was the Trinity Test Tower where they would test the effectiveness of the bombs that they made during the Manhattan Project.
The Manhattan Project was assembled when “in 1939 the world’s scientific community discovered that German physicists …show more content…
Truman knows that this nuclear bomb has the capacity and power to end the war with Japan but he also knows that this is one of the most terrible weapons man have ever made. The Allied forces demanded that the Japanese surrender conditionally so Truman would not have to use the nuclear bomb. Japan refused to surrender so “on August 6, 1945 a plane called the Enola Gay dropped on of the bombs on the city of Hiroshima. Instantly 70,000 Japanese children were completely vaporized.” (US History 4) Also, in the following months and years an additional 100,000 people died from their burns and radiation sickness. Two days after the first use of the nuclear weapons the United States dropped another atomic bomb but this time it was on Nagasaki, which 80,000 Japanese people died. Only eight days after the United States had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima the Japanese had surrendered. Many military analysts believe that the Japanese were on their knees and that the use of nuclear weapons was completely unnecessary and the United States government was accused of racism because there would be no way that the U.S. would use these bombs on white civilians. There is a huge ethical debate about the decision to drop the two bombs on japan and it is a debate that will never get resolved because nobody knew …show more content…
The aftermath of dropping the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused more than just ending the war between Japan and the United States for example the day after the Soviet Union declared war on Japan we used the second bomb to set an example to the Soviet Union and everyone else that was paying attention to the war. The success of the Manhattan Project showed the United States how coming together with natural resources and funding to the program can accomplish impossible feats. The use of nuclear weapons in combat started the nuclear age and now that other countries know that he United States has the power of making atomic bombs the countries would need to develop their own programs in order to have some bombs in order to get on the same level or possibly a higher level than the United States. “After the end of World War II congress decided to establish the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)” (Osti.gov 28) They decided to establish this program for the sole purpose to further establish the atomic energy studies the
The Manhattan Project was a secret project that was kept from public knowledge and even the vice president didn’t even know about the project until the completion of the project was nearly done. The Manhattan Project has hundreds of scientists and was based out of numerous locations spread through out the country and there were many testing sights but the most common testing sight was the one that was located in a desert in New Mexico and it was the Trinity Test Tower where they would test the effectiveness of the bombs that they made during the Manhattan Project.
The Manhattan Project was assembled when “in 1939 the world’s scientific community discovered that German physicists …show more content…
Truman knows that this nuclear bomb has the capacity and power to end the war with Japan but he also knows that this is one of the most terrible weapons man have ever made. The Allied forces demanded that the Japanese surrender conditionally so Truman would not have to use the nuclear bomb. Japan refused to surrender so “on August 6, 1945 a plane called the Enola Gay dropped on of the bombs on the city of Hiroshima. Instantly 70,000 Japanese children were completely vaporized.” (US History 4) Also, in the following months and years an additional 100,000 people died from their burns and radiation sickness. Two days after the first use of the nuclear weapons the United States dropped another atomic bomb but this time it was on Nagasaki, which 80,000 Japanese people died. Only eight days after the United States had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima the Japanese had surrendered. Many military analysts believe that the Japanese were on their knees and that the use of nuclear weapons was completely unnecessary and the United States government was accused of racism because there would be no way that the U.S. would use these bombs on white civilians. There is a huge ethical debate about the decision to drop the two bombs on japan and it is a debate that will never get resolved because nobody knew …show more content…
The aftermath of dropping the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused more than just ending the war between Japan and the United States for example the day after the Soviet Union declared war on Japan we used the second bomb to set an example to the Soviet Union and everyone else that was paying attention to the war. The success of the Manhattan Project showed the United States how coming together with natural resources and funding to the program can accomplish impossible feats. The use of nuclear weapons in combat started the nuclear age and now that other countries know that he United States has the power of making atomic bombs the countries would need to develop their own programs in order to have some bombs in order to get on the same level or possibly a higher level than the United States. “After the end of World War II congress decided to establish the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)” (Osti.gov 28) They decided to establish this program for the sole purpose to further establish the atomic energy studies the