States knew how destructive the bomb was‚ they should have not used it in the first place. Not only was japan in danger but Leo Szilard and 69 co-signers at the Manhattan Project stated “ the cities of the United States as well as the cities of other nations will be in continuous danger of sudden annihilation.” Most people working on the project for two and a half years did not even know what they were working on or hiding from the American public. Though‚ Japan killed and injured many Americans‚ the
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Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt that described this discovery and warned of its potential development by other nations. The U.S. government established the top secret Manhattan Project in 1942 to develop an atomic device. The leader of the Manhattan Project was U.S. Army Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves. His team‚ working in several locations but in large part at Los Alamos‚ New Mexico‚ under the direction of American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer‚ designed
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this deadly weapon.The most famous person who helped make the bombs was a man who was the head of the Manhattan project named Julius Robert Oppenheimer who is also known as “The father of the Atomic Bomb”. The Manhattan project spent around two billion dollars to research the creation of these bombs. The bombs were tested in New Mexico and they were proven to be very deadly. The Manhattan project gave the two bombs that would drop on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nicknames the first bomb was named “The Little
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manager by the Department of Energy (DOE) at the Hanford Nuclear complex to correct over 40 years of safety neglect resulting in millions of tons of nuclear waste material. Other agencies overseeing Hanford in the 1940’s and during the Cold War were Manhattan Engineer District U.S Army‚ Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Energy which took control in 1977. Among the contracted site managers we can list E.I DuPont de Nemours Company and General Electric‚ Westinghouse‚ Bechtel Hanford‚ and others
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focus manny properties on it such as Resources ‚scientist ‚military‚ citizens‚ and more. Without these resources the united States would become weak. Well the atomic bomb was their solution. First of all the Manhattan project spent years on creating the bomb so why not use it!The Bomb project that spent nearly 2 billion dollars which is equivalent to 23 Billion dollars today.And then the bomb did not have to be strategized such as attacking with infantry ‚and thus lessen the chances of something going
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The bomb was much more explosive than scientists thought it would be. The 100 foot tower which housed the bomb was totally destroyed by the blast. ("World War II"‚ 1997‚ 1-2). After the bomb exploded‚ Robert Oppenheimer‚ the head of the Manhattan Project‚
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At the start of 1942‚ the Manhattan Project‚ which was codename for the creation of the atomic bomb‚ began. The project was to create a high functioning bomb which caused mass destruction. As WWII came to a close‚ with Japan and the United States the only remaining countries in combat‚ neither showed signs of surrendering. Something had to be done to end the war‚ so the United States dropped the atomic bomb. It was justifiable to drop the bomb because neither country showed signs of surrendering
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The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Written By: Nicholas Phandoe World War II began on September 1st‚ 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and then ended on September 2nd‚ 1945 with the signing of the surrender documents from Japan aboard the American Battleship USS Missouri. During the course of 1941 when the US joined WWII‚ and 1945 when it ended over 291‚000 US American
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of both of the bombs dropped on Japan. Originally‚ the Manhattan Project was devoted to seeing if it was possible to even create the reaction needed for such a bomb to exist. The U.S. government had heard from the esteemed Albert Einstein that the Germans had discovered the reaction that powered the deadly atomic bomb. Out of fear‚ and the desire to have the biggest and strongest bomb‚ F.D.R. authorized the creation of the Manhattan Project. It was responsible for discovering the reaction‚ producing
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Albert Einstein: The Nuclear Rejection Albert Einstein once said‚ “ I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out with the atom bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.”. From this quote‚ he wanted everyone‚ anywhere around the world to not use nuclear weapons. He wanted his famous formula e=mc^2 to bring good for everyone around the world. Soon after knowing that making nuclear weapons is possible by using his formula‚ Albert started writing letters to president
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