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The text says scientist were told theories about the atomic bomb by Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein was frightened that Germany would figure out how to create the bomb first, after he concluded that such a bomb could be made. US President Franklin Roosevelt set up the Manhattan Project when he was aware by Einstein about the bomb. The project was a development for the atomic bomb. Once the bomb became more real the US wanted to make sure they were the first to build the bomb. So, they added scientist and funding to the project. There were around 200,000 people involved in the project and around $2 billion from funding when the program ended. This makes me wonder if Germany did the same as the US but had an unsuccessful program.

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Kids learn about the history of the Atomic Bomb during World War II. Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan to end WW2.

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https://www.historyonthenet.com/how-many-people-died-in-world-war-2/
It is really starting to grow on me that the atomic bomb was actually a good thing, even with the aftermath of death and radiation to come for decades. 500,000 people die every battle, and in average of the two bombs, one atomic bomb killed 50,000 people. That makes me wonder that the bombs were necessary, as the whole point of the bomb was to prevent another battle along the islands of Japan. I now see that an atomic bomb just saved 10x more lives than it actually took.

Article below is article tallying up the deaths of the bombs and link above is article showing around of deaths per battle in WW2.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Atomic Bomb

Background

Before the war, many scientists had been investigating the possibility of generating energy and even weapons from the atom, the building block of the universe and everything that surrounds us.

The famous scientist Albert Einstein represented these leading thinkers by writing to the American president Franklin Roosevelt in August 1939.

He told him about their ideas and the danger of the Nazis in Germany developing such a bomb for military use.

Roosevelt responded by setting up a group of experts to develop the idea in the United States.

The idea only really got going after the Japanese bombed the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbour in December 1941.

Other countries also saw the appeal in having a very powerful weapon that would prevent their soldiers being killed in large numbers, as well as being able to stop enemies from making possible attacks on them.

These countries included Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. However, none of them were able to make the bomb before the Americans.

Between 1941 and 1945, the scientist, Robert Oppenheimer, led a group of experts on the Manhattan Project with the aim of making the world's first atomic bomb.

Many of the people on Oppenheimer's team were scientists who had escaped Nazi Germany.

They all worked at a special research site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

The decision to use the bomb

Throughout the war, Allied forces heavily bombed Japan killing hundreds of thousands of people. But the Japanese survived these attacks and were still very strong.

They refused to surrender and so President Harry Truman thought about a possible invasion of the country.

The Japanese army was huge and the President knew that he would lose hundreds of thousands of men, if he embarked on such a plan.

So, in July 1945, Truman offered the Japanese the chance to surrender.

He knew that the bomb had now been completed and effectively tested in the New Mexico desert and was ready for use.

The Japanese wanted to negotiate the conditions of surrender and refused to give in to the demands of the Allies.

Hiroshima

The Americans targeted Hiroshima because it had not yet been hit by their air raids.

This meant that it would be a better testing ground to examine the effects of the atomic bomb over a particular area. Hiroshima also had an important military base.

On the morning of the 6th of August 1945, Paul Tibbets flew an American B29 bomber plane, called 'Enola Gay', over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and dropped the bomb named 'Little Boy' at 08:16 am local time.

The explosion was devastating and instantly wiped out the entire city. 140,000 people were killed at the time of the explosion and by the end of 1945.

The intense heat of the blast led to fires throughout the city which continued for three days, making survival more difficult for those who were not killed in the initial explosion.

Nagasaki

On the 9th of August, Charles Sweeney piloted a second mission on another B29 called Bockscar with the 'Fat Man' bomb, as it was known.

The main target of the bomb was in fact another Japanese city, Kokura. Due to cloud and smoke over Kokura, visibility was poor and Japanese fighter planes were drawing near.

So the pilot decided to target the city of Nagasaki as an alternative.

Nagasaki was picked due to the fact that it was an important port.

The bomb was dropped.

It was not as devastating as the Hiroshima bomb, but thousands of people died with the total reaching around 70,000 by the end of the year.

Several days later, on the 14th of August 1945, Japan gave its unconditional surrender to the Allies.

At noon the next day, Emperor Hirohito told the Japanese people of the decision.

Consequences

The atomic bomb changed the world forever after the end of the war.

As well as the high number of people who lost their lives, those who survived the blast suffered from terrible illness.

Several years after the war, the Americans and Soviets had created even more powerful hydrogen bombs which could now be fired at long-range targets all over the world, using missiles.

These new bombs made ordinary people fearful that one day there might be an all out war causing mass destruction.

Many people fought against nuclear weapons and still do. But they were unable to stop leaders developing more and more weapons.

Despite the fears, the two main powers after the war, America and the Soviet Union, never used the weapons even though there were many close calls.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki - History for kids

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Atomic Bomb Background Before the war, many scientists had been investigating the possibility of generating energy and even weapons from the atom, the building block of the universe and everything that surrounds us. The famous scientist Albert Einstein represented these leading thinkers by writing to the American president Franklin Roosevelt in August 1939.

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Things that iv'e learned from watching the video about the evolution of Atomic Bombs would be that Atomic bombs have surprisingly evolved since the first world wide bombing in Hiroshima. "Little Boy" which was made up of tons of thousands of TNT wasn't just the only bomb that ever existed. There was also the Fat man and many more bombs that weren't just created by the U.S.
And did you know that their still making many more types of Atomic/Nuclear bombs that could do a thousand times worse than the first bomb. . and their still being tested! But where are they tested? Maybe in the desert or possibly in the ocean... because a bomb with as much power as a thousand tons of TNT must have caused some occurrence with the outside world... or did it...

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While reading this article it made me wonder about the damage one atomic bomb can cause. It can cost the lives of millions of people. This article also gives background information on the first 2 atomic bombs created. It explains whatboth atomic bombs can do and what they are made of. The bomb in Hiroshima was said to be stronger than the one dropped in Nagasaki because of the dame it caused to the city and the lives it took with it. What's also good about this article is the pictures it has representing both bombs.

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THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMBS: "Little Boy"and "Fat Man"

There were actually two new bombs, one using uranium, the other plutonium, with different triggering devices for each. The main research and production sites were Los Alamos, New Mexico; Hanford, Washington; and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The entire project operated under top secrecy, mobilizing top scientists and engineers, and at unprecedented high costs.

The Hiroshima bomb

Nicknamed "Little Boy"(for President Franklin Roosevelt), the bomb's size was 3 meters in length by 0.7 meter in diameter, using uranium 235 as its critical material. Inside a shortened smooth-bore 76.2 mm (3 in.) naval gun, a subcritical projectile of U-235 was fired at a subcritical target of U-235. At the moment of impact, a supercritical mass was formed, triggering a nuclear chain reaction, or atomic explosion. The gun barrel and heavy casing gave it a weight of over four metric tons (8,900 lbs). The subcritical material was an alloy called Oralloy, a code named derived from the secret laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where it was fabricated.

For use in the gun device, the fissile materials had to be made into geometric shapes capable of withstanding the violence of being shot down the gun's tube, then stoipped abruptly at the target, and held together long enough to detonate.

The Nagasaki bomb

Nicknamed "Fat Man" (for England's Prime Minister Winston Churchill), this bomb had a core of plutonium 239, was 3.5 meters in length by 1.5 meters in diameter, and it weighed 4.5 tons. Its plutonium core was surrounded by 64 explosive charges arranged in an inner and outer shell. The explosive charges were fabricated in geometrical shapes in a configuration similar to a soccer ball-an extremely difficult and demanding procedure. When the two shells were detonated, the shockwave slammed into a tamper surrounding the plutonium nucleus, causing a rapid increase in density that compressed the slightly sub-critical plutonium core, rapidly increasing its density, making it supercritical, thus exploding in a nuclear chain reaction.

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There were actually two new bombs, one using uranium, the other plutonium, with different triggering devices for each. The main research and production sites were Los Alamos, New Mexico; Hanford, Washington; and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The entire project operated under top secrecy, mobilizing top scientists and engineers, and at unprecedented high costs.

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After reading an article talking about the perspectives of the crew on the Enola gay, people who had dropped the "Little Boy" on Hiroshima. I can see why they had agreed to this. They had believed that the lives gone by this atomic bomb would've been less than what would have happened if the war had continued on any longer. Of course they do have regrets of dropping the atomic bomb. They didn't know just how truly powerful it was when dropped on an actual city. A quote from Captain Roderick Lewis (co-pilot) "My god, what have we done?" My only other thought on this is. Would they do it again? Knowing what the damage would be, the lives taken, and the results of the city.

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On August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Twelve men were on that flight. Some chose to keep a low profile and others spoke out about their place in history. Almost all had something to say after the war.

The 509th Composite Group was formed by the U.S. Army Air Force to deliver and deploy the first atomic bombs during World War II. The group was segregated from the rest of the military and trained in secret. Even those in the group only knew as much as they needed to know in order to perform their duties. The group deployed to Tinian in 1945 with 15 B-29 bombers, flight crews, ground crews, and other personnel, a total of about 1770 men. The mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (special mission 13) involved seven planes, but the one we remember was the Enola Gay.

Air Force captain Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk did not know the destructive force of the nuclear bomb before Hiroshima. He was 24 years old at that time, a veteran of 58 missions in North Africa. Paul Tibbets told him this mission would shorten or end the war, but Van Kirk had heard that line before. Hiroshima made him a believer. Van Kirk felt the bombing of Hiroshima was worth the price in that it ended the war before the invasion of Japan, which promised to be devastating to both sides.

I honestly believe the use of the atomic bomb saved lives in the long run. There were a lot of lives saved. Most of the lives saved were Japanese.

In 2005, Van Kirk came as close as he ever got to regret.

I pray no man will have to witness that sight again. Such a terrible waste, such a loss of life. We unleashed the first atomic bomb, and I hope there will never be another. I pray that we have learned a lesson for all time. But I'm not sure that we have.

After the war, Van Kirk got a masters degree in chemical engineering and worked for DuPont until his retirement. Van Kirk passed away in 2014.

Thomas Ferebee pushed the button that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. He slept in the plane both before and after he did his part. After the war, Ferebee stayed with the Air Force, serving in the Strategic Air Command and in Vietnam. He retired as a full Colonel.

Colonel Ferebee, who retired from the Air Force in 1970, always argued that the Hiroshima bomb was necessary. "I'm convinced that the bombing saved many lives by ending the war," he told Newsweek magazine in 1970.

That doesn't mean he had no opinion on the further use of such weapons.

"Now we should look back and remember what just one bomb did, or two bombs," he told The Charlotte Observer in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. "Then I think we should realize that this can't happen again."

Colonel Ferebee died in Florida in 2000, at the age of 81.

Army Air Force radar specialist Jacob Beser was the only man who served on both the Enola Gay in the Hiroshima bombing mission and the Bock's Car three days later when its crew bombed Nagasaki. He couldn't look at the detonation of the bombs because he was charged with monitoring for outside signals that could have detonated the bomb early and monitoring for signals of the proper detonation. This is addition for keeping an eye on radar for any enemy planes.

In this 1985 interview for the Washington Post, Beser was asked if he would do it again.

Given the same circumstances in the same kind of context, the answer is yes. However, you have to admit that the circumstances don't exist now. They probably never will again. I have no regrets, no remorse about it. As far as our country was concerned, we were three years downstream in a war, going on four. The world had been at war, really, from the '30s in China, continuously, and millions and millions of people had been killed. Add to that the deliberate killing that went on in Europe, [and] it's kind of ludicrous to say well, geez, look at all those people that were instantly murdered. In November of 1945 there was an invasion of Japan planned. Three million men were gonna be thrown against Japan. There were about three million Japanese digging in for the defense of their homeland, and there was a casualty potential of over a million people. That's what was avoided. If you take the highest figures of casualties of both cities, say, 300,000 combined casualties in Hiroshima [and] Nagasaki, versus a million, I'm sorry to say, it's a good tradeoff. It's a very cold way to look at it, but it's the only way to look at it. Now looking into tomorrow, that's something else again. I don't have any pat answers for that.

After the war, Beser was an engineer at Sandia Laboratories where nuclear research continued and at Westinghouse where he worked on classified projects for the military. He retired in 1985. In 1988, Beser wrote a book called Hiroshima and Nagasaki Revisited. He died of cancer in 1992 at age 71.

There isn't a lot of biographical information available on radar operator Joe Stiborik, except for some of his reminiscences of the mission.

Joe Stiborik remembered the crew sitting in stunned silence on the return flight. The only words he recollected hearing were Lewis's "My God, what have we done." He explained, "I was dumbfounded. Remember, nobody had ever seen what an A-bomb could do before. Here was a whole damn town nearly as big as Dallas, one minute all in good shape and the next minute disappeared and covered with fires and smoke...There was almost no talk I can remember on our trip back to the base. It was just too much to express in words, I guess. We were all in a kind of state of shock. I think the foremost thing in all our minds was that this thing was going to bring an end to the war and we tried to look at it that way."

Stiborik died of a heart attack in 1984 at age 69.

Morris Jeppson was only 23 years old when he was assigned to accompany the atomic bomb on the Enola Gay. It was his duty to arm the bomb and make sure it would work. Jeppson had the power to abort the mission if it didn't. It was his first and last mission of the war. Jeppson had worked in developing the mechanics of the bomb, and after the war he continued on the nuclear path. He studied physics at Berkeley and worked in the radiation laboratory there. Then he worked on developing hydrogen thermonuclear weapons at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Jeppson went on to invent and market hi-tech machinery for medical and industrial uses.

In 1995, Jeppson looked back at the Hiroshima mission.

Until the 509th reunion that year Jeppson hadn't given the mission much thought. "Those bomb plugs were just kicking around in a drawer" for years, he says. Still, he maintains that dropping the bomb on Hiroshima was a necessary means to help end the war. He points to wartime concerns that Germany was developing nuclear bomb technology. "If that had happened, the world would be an entirely different place (today)," he says.

Jeppson passed away in 2010.

Richard Nelson was the youngest of the Enola Gay crew. He was 20 years old in August of 1945. He relayed the news of the atomic bomb to his superiors in code, who forwarded it to President Truman: "Results excellent." After the war, Nelson got a degree in business administration and made a career as a salesman. Fifty years later, he had no regrets about his part in the mission.

"War is a terrible thing," he told The Riverside Press-Enterprise on the 50th anniversary of the bombing. "It takes and it destroys. Anyone feels sorry for people who are killed. We are all human beings. But I don't feel sorry I participated in it. If I had known the results of the mission beforehand, I would have flown it anyway."

Nelson died from emphysema in 2003 at age 77.

Enola Gay tail gunner Bob Caron wrote a book about the mission called Fire of a Thousand Suns. Despite his description of the bomb's effects, he never regretted being part of the mission.

In an interview with the Rocky Mountain News published two weeks before he died, Mr. Caron said he had no regrets about his role in the World War II bombing. "No remorse, no bad dreams," he said. "We accomplished our mission."

Caron died of pneumonia in 1995. He was 75 years old.

Wyatt Duzenbury kept tabs on the Enola Gay's engines and other systems while others tended the bomb and the mission itself. He considered it an honor to be chosen for the secret bombing mission that was to shorten the war. After 1945, he stayed with the Air Force. In his retirement, he looked back at the mission.

...he told the Lansing State Journal in 1985, "We were told to go, cranked up, dropped it, and came home." He told the newspaper that he didn't feel guilty about his mission, but did "not feel good about the 100,000 people who died." In an earlier interview, he said, "Personally, I feel that if we hadn't dropped that bomb, and the other crew hadn't dropped its bomb on Nagasaki, it would have cost thousand of US soldiers' lives establishing a beach head for the invasion of Japan."

Duzenbury died in 1992 at age 71.

Robert Shumard assisted flight engineer Wyatt Duzenbury in keeping the Enola Gay running. In a 1960 interview, Shumard said he didn't feel honored to do what they did, but he felt honored to be selected for the mission. And given the circumstances, he would do it again.

"Nobody actually wants to cause the destruction we caused," he said. "But it was through a necessity rather than a wanton type of destruction. It was something that had to be done. As much as a man has gangrene in his leg, and they have to cut it off. It's something that has to be done. It was a cancer in the world situation that had to be removed, that's all."

Naval gunnery officer William "Deke" Parsons was pulled from sea duty to work on the Manhattan Project in 1943. He helped turn the nuclear bomb into a weapon of war, from development to assembly to delivery. He armed the first atomic bomb while the Enola Gay was airborne. After the war, Parsons continued in nuclear weapons development, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral. He oversaw the Operation Crossroads nuclear testing project and also served on the Atomic Energy Commission. Parsons witnessed seven of the first eight nuclear explosions. There are no quotes available from Parsons as he was still serving in the Navy when he died of a sudden heart attack in 1953. He was 52 years old.

Air Force flier Robert Lewis was a pilot first and foremost. He was upset that commander Paul Tibbets had named his plane the Enola Gay. But he was also dedicated to the mission, and earned Tibbets' respect despite the animosity between the two. Lewis wrote a diary of the mission in a notebook during the flight to Hiroshima, against orders. He later sold it for $37,000. It was resold in 2002 for almost ten times that much. He is often quoted:

"As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: 'My God, what have we done?'"

Some sources say that quote was a revision after the fact. Later in life, Lewis defended the mission.

Over the past half century, some of the crew have returned to the city to take part in the annual commemoration celebrations. Lewis never did. For him "it was just a job of work. I helped make the world a safer place. Nobody has dared launch an atomic bomb since then. That is how I want to be remembered. The man who helped to do that."

Lewis died of a heart attack at age 65 in 1983.

Lieutenant Colonel Paul Tibbets was chosen to head the bomb delivery mission in September of 1944, and he selected the rest of the crew. At that time, the Manhattan Project was preparing to drop a bomb on Europe as well as Asia. After the mission, Tibbets remained in the Air Force until 1966, achieving the rank of Brigadier General. He worked as an aviation executive until his retirement in 1970.

In a 2002 interview with Studs Terkel, Tibbets said he never had second thoughts about the mission:

Number one, I got into the air corps to defend the United States to the best of my ability. That's what I believe in and that's what I work for. Number two, I'd had so much experience with airplanes... I'd had jobs where there was no particular direction about how you do it and then of course I put this thing together with my own thoughts on how it should be because when I got the directive I was to be self-supporting at all times. On the way to the target I was thinking: I can't think of any mistakes I've made. Maybe I did make a mistake: maybe I was too damned assured. At 29 years of age I was so shot in the ass with confidence I didn't think there was anything I couldn't do. Of course, that applied to airplanes and people. So, no, I had no problem with it. I knew we did the right thing because when I knew we'd be doing that I thought, yes, we're going to kill a lot of people, but by God we're going to save a lot of lives. We won't have to invade [Japan].

Tibbets died in 2007 at age 92. He had requested cremation and no physical memorial, because it would become a pilgrimage site for nuclear protesters.
This post originally appeared in 2010.

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The Crew of the Enola Gay on Dropping the Atomic Bomb

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On theory on a piece of the article I’m developing(decision to drop the bomb) is that when leaders where deciding to drop the atomic bombs ,they didn’t think about Japanese lives and only American lives.Another piece to the theory that I’m creating is that what if there where other options to use,would the bombs have been used?This makes me wonder if the US even considered other peacful options before dropping the bomb.

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Kids learn about the history of the Atomic Bomb during World War II. Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan to end WW2.

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I think it was interesting how the Soviets knew they would never catch up to the USA and Germany in terms of making nuclear weapons, so they immediately planned on how they could steal information.

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throughout an article and a video I have enough information to know that the atomic bomb is a very powerful and threatening weapon. Some countries will use it to force opposers to forfeit or surrender if they are at war or conflict. When I came to conclusion it made me wonder what would happen if a weapon such as an atomic bomb were to fall in the wrong hands. Nd what would happen to the world.

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Using information I have gathered, I've come to the realization that not only does atomic bombs have physical effects, it has very damaging emotional effects and economic effects as well. Articles have portrayed the bomb as very dangerous and powerful but I think the bomb is more than that. I believe the bomb is just something that countries use as a threatening mechanism.  In many articles they describe the bombs as "ruthless" and "killing machine" when in reality the bomb is just a threat for other countries. The usage of these bombs have also affected the dooms day clock, which not many have taken into consideration.
http://atomicbombmuseum.org/3_social.shtml
https://newsela.com/read/doomsday-clock/id/14606

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I Realized how the atomic was actually brought about and how these people quickly processed to make the atomic bomb . Like the whole background of the idea with Albert Einstein. Also how even through both bombs Japan still stood strong not knowing if the U.S did or did not plan to drop another bomb. Also how several years after the war the U.S and Soviet Union still creates more powerful hydrogen bombs even though they were afraid of the next war being a nuclear war. http://www.historyforkids.net/atomic-bomb.html

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It made me understand how devastating the effects of an atomic bomb can be,and I realized that bombs have come a much farther way. It will be even more horrendous now that technology has advanced and even more than a city can be destroyed in a matter of seconds.The text also made me wonder which people know about these important topics because one the president that went into power didn’t even know that they had atomic bombs but still used it. It also amazes me how much money they spent on trying to make the atomic bomb they spent over a billion dollars trying to create this thing that caused mass destruction

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Newsela | The Hiroshima bombing: What you need to know about the nuclear attack

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The effects brought about by the Hiroshima bombing

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I think it was interesting how the Soviets knew they would never catch up to the USA and Germany in terms of making nuclear weapons, so they immediately planned on how they could steal information. They had great physicists, enough materials, and everything else needed to make a nuclear bomb. This was demonstrated through the creation of Tsar Bomba. The real question is why didn’t they make the bomb sooner? One theory I’m starting to grow is that they didn’t make a nuclear weapon at the same time as the USA and Germany is because they were still trying to grasp the idea of how they could split atoms to make extremely powerful bombs, they were still trying to figure out what the US was doing to make their bombs. They must’ve used the information stolen from the US, changed the process a little, then created Tsar Bomba.

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What I first thought about the Atomic Bomb was that it was all of Japan's fault that they were bombed with the A-Bomb. But actually, it was partially the United States fault as well. I understood why they used the first bomb "Little Boy," but they should've given Japan more time on choosing to surrender or not, before dropping the bom, "Fat Man." Because of the United States' impatient decision to drop the second bomb, an estimated one-third of their population was killed, most of them civilians.

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http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

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A thought I have about this is how did scientists put the uranium that was split between a neutron put in the outer layer of the bomb without exploding. After reading this article,  one theory i'm growing is how did the Soviet Union made an atomic bomb named the Tsar Bomba that made the most deadliest and biggest explosion because the scientist from the Soviet Union just used hydrogen to make an hydrogen bomb that could explode up to 50 ton of TNT.
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This makes me wonder if they trust theoretical probability over experimental probability. I think that scientists used theoretical because of the damage that it can cause from releasing this weapon.

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The book Bomb makes me wonder how our future changed all in an instant. The United States wanted to avoid the War, but when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, we declared war. The United States was already working on an atomic bomb in secrecy when the possibly of Germany building an atomic bomb as well reached the ears of the President. The race had begun. Spies were all over each other's territory to get any information possible. We won the war by bombing Japan, but that didn't stop our thirst for power. Globally, we have created atomic bombs that could cause a major impact in our lives if we were to enter a nuclear war.

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The decision to use the atomic bomb was made on December 6, 1941. On may 1943 was  the first operational bomb should be dropped on Japan, the choice of targets really did not receive systematic attention until two years later

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The text says the bombs explodes when it has  critical mass that starts a chain reaction leading to a nuclear explosion.  this makes me think how did it not explode when it was in the plane that carried them.This makes me wonder if they knew it was dangerous why did they use this method to make japan surrender if there was also a risk to the pilot and the other people in the plane in charged of dropping the bomb.This makes me wonder how many other countries would   use this method of  the atomic bomb.

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The article says that the u.s droped a bomb on Hiroshima on august 6 1945 then another on Nagasaki august 15 1945.I wonder after the first bombing why did japan resist to surrender if they would have surrender it wouldn't have led to a second bombing .this makes me feel upset because if japan would have surrendered not as many innocent kids would have lost their life or people.
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The text says that an atomic bomb is a weapon with huge power created by splitting an atom of the element uranium. This makes me think that an atomic bomb is on of the most powerful\deadliest things ever. This makes me wonder why the president didn't think of another way for japan to surrender quickly without harming anyone.-Sherice Washington

https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/world-war-ii/atomic-bomb/