The Atomic Bomb by MADISON SWICK https://padlet.com/19swickmad/hpcd5grpj9cw en-us 2018-04-24 02:25:20 UTC 2026-02-07 09:52:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Use of The Atomic Bomb 19swickmad https://padlet.com/19swickmad/hpcd5grpj9cw/wish/254661465 While the war in Europe had ended in April, fighting in the Pacific continued between Japanese forces and U.S. troops. In July, President Harry Truman called for Japan’s surrender with the Potsdam Declaration. The declaration promised “prompt and utter destruction” if Japan did not surrender.]]> 2018-04-24 02:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19swickmad/hpcd5grpj9cw/wish/254661465 The United States was the only country with nuclear weaponry in the years immediately following World War II. 19swickmad https://padlet.com/19swickmad/hpcd5grpj9cw/wish/254661466 2018-04-24 02:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19swickmad/hpcd5grpj9cw/wish/254661466 Use of The Atomic Bomb 19swickmad https://padlet.com/19swickmad/hpcd5grpj9cw/wish/254661467 On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped its first atomic bomb from a B-29 bomber plane called the Enola Gay on Japanese city of Hiroshima. When the Japanese did not immediately surrender, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb three days later on the city of Nagasaki. Citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb,” Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender on August 15, ending World War II.]]> 2018-04-24 02:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19swickmad/hpcd5grpj9cw/wish/254661467 The Manhattan Project 19swickmad https://padlet.com/19swickmad/hpcd5grpj9cw/wish/254661468 The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic bomb during World War II. The Manhattan Project was started in response to fears that German scientists had been working on a weapon using nuclear technology since the 1930s. On July 16, 1945, in a desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated. It created an enormous mushroom cloud some 40,000 feet high.]]> 2018-04-24 02:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19swickmad/hpcd5grpj9cw/wish/254661468 Discovery 19swickmad https://padlet.com/19swickmad/hpcd5grpj9cw/wish/254661469 A discovery by nuclear physicists in a laboratory in Berlin, Germany, in 1938 made the first atomic bomb possible, after Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassman discovered nuclear fission.]]> 2018-04-24 02:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19swickmad/hpcd5grpj9cw/wish/254661469