the effects of the atom bomb
On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb ever was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, killing about 70,000 people, wounding about 70,000 and destroying about five square miles of the city. The atomic bomb was the result of the manhattan project, an enormous undertaking by the U.S. government to exploit the fission process for military purposes, by way of a bomb with incredible destructive powers. The project was given the "green light" by President Roosevelt after he received a letter from Albert Einstein describing what could be accomplished with the Manhattan project, it took the combined efforts of some of the worlds top scientists to convince Einstein to write the letters and the knowledge that Germany was trying to build their own atomic bombs. The atomic bomb affected the world by ending the war, changing the way we fight wars and affecting the way people live their everyday lives. By the time the Manhattan project was complete the war was nearly over in Europe, so President Harry Truman decided that the bomb should be dropped on Japan. This was for three reasons, the Japanese would not give up the fight easily and Truman did not want any more Americans to die, the project was of too great a cost, nearly two billion d
Even though the atomic bomb was developed for the sole purpose of destruction it also had some positive affects on the world. The biggest benefit to the development of the nuclear bomb was that it led to us learning how to harness nuclear energy. A nuclear power plant is a much more efficient way of producing energy than anything before it, but it does have its downfalls. On April 6, 1986, a power plant in Chernobyl, part of the former Soviet Union, had a nuclear meltdown, with the effects still being felt nowadays. The creation of the atom bomb also led to advances in science and medicine. The CAT scan was developed with technology discovered while making the bomb and radiation is a normal type of treatment for people suffering from cancer. Many scientists even speculate that without the development of the atomic bomb, space exploration would not be at the point it is today, and these are but a few of the good things that were a result of the Manhattan Project. ollars, for the American government not to use it and the American citizens held resentment against the Japanese for Pearl Harbor and the treatment of American prisoners. So on August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay dropped a 9,000 pound bomb, called little boy, on Hiroshima, Japan. Little Boy detonated 1,900 feet above the city, immediately it killed about 70,000 and left 70,000 injured, but the full effects of the blast could be felt for years with people dying from radiation sickness, some people also developed genet
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