Why Did The United States Use The Atomic Bomb?
The Manhattan Project was developed to give America their best chance at not only fighting but winning a nuclear war. When German physicists had the knowledge to split a uranium atom, fear ensured. The world scientific community held the concern of Nazi scientists utilizing this new found energy to build a nuclear bomb. As to avoid this, the United States implemented their own project. With the input of multiple scientists, and the ultimate approval of President Roosevelt, the first atomic bomb began to be designed and built by the United States.
During World War II, The United States had discovered that German physicists had figured out how to separate a Uranium atom. The US feared that Nazi scientists would utilize this new energy they had created to produce nuclear weapons; giving Germany a dangerous advantage in the …show more content…
The outcome may have resulted differently if Japan had known we possessed a new weapon of mass destruction, regardless the Japanese military rejected the proposal. On August 6, 1945, the plane called the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on the entire city of Hiroshima, instantly vaporizing 70,000 people and later killing another 100,000 due to radiation sickness and burns. Three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki in which 80,000 Japanese people were killed as well. On August 14, 1945, the Japanese finally surrendered.
President Truman's decision to drop the bombs was said to be purely military as he didn't want to prolong the war causing the deaths of more Americans as well as the Japanese. Knowing there was no guarantee that the Japanese would surrender if a demonstration was given he thought that a failed demonstration would be worse than none at all. But even the scientific community failed to see the horrible effects that the radiation
During World War II, The United States had discovered that German physicists had figured out how to separate a Uranium atom. The US feared that Nazi scientists would utilize this new energy they had created to produce nuclear weapons; giving Germany a dangerous advantage in the …show more content…
The outcome may have resulted differently if Japan had known we possessed a new weapon of mass destruction, regardless the Japanese military rejected the proposal. On August 6, 1945, the plane called the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on the entire city of Hiroshima, instantly vaporizing 70,000 people and later killing another 100,000 due to radiation sickness and burns. Three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki in which 80,000 Japanese people were killed as well. On August 14, 1945, the Japanese finally surrendered.
President Truman's decision to drop the bombs was said to be purely military as he didn't want to prolong the war causing the deaths of more Americans as well as the Japanese. Knowing there was no guarantee that the Japanese would surrender if a demonstration was given he thought that a failed demonstration would be worse than none at all. But even the scientific community failed to see the horrible effects that the radiation