The central idea of the article is that when Barack Obama visited Hiroshima, it highlights how hard the U.S has worked to bring peace, and make up for past mistakes. One supporting detail is that the United States now has a peaceful relationship with Japan, and acknowledges the hardships the Japanese people had to endure. The U.S has made an agreement with the country of Japan, and Obama's visit showed that we continue to try to make peace. Another supporting detail is that America has played a big role in peace in Asia. This is shown through how the U.S has tried to improve our relationship with China and Russia. One last supporting detail is that officials from the U.S and Japan have worked for peace. Nobusuke Kishi, the grandfather of Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe, was one of those people who pushed for peace. 

Nuclear Fission (n)-   

Process of splitting a larger atom into two or more smaller atoms 

Nuclear Fusion (n)-  

Two or more atoms are joined together to make a larger atom 

Uranium (n)- 

A chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92 

Created during the second World War and mass produced, tested, and developed for the arms race in the Cold War, atomic bombs have had a big impact on history, along with a history of their own. The discovery that made these bombs possible was in 1938 in Berlin, Germany, when and where scientists Hahn, Meitner, and Strassman discovered nuclear fission. Nuclear fission was when "an atom of radioactive material splits into lighter atoms" causing a "sudden, powerful release of energy" (History.com, 3). During WWII, in fear that Germany was creating nuclear weapons, Americans made the Manhattan Project, where scientists worked on developing the first atomic bomb. The first two working atomic bombs that the Manhattan Project created were "Little Boy" and "Fat Man", bombs capable of murdering thousands of people instantly, both of which were dropped on Japan Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WWII. Only after a few years following WWII, America was no longer the only country with atomic bombs because, though spying, the USSR obtained the blueprints for atomic bombs. During the Cold War, the world appeared to be on the brink of nuclear war to many people. During this time, it was discovered that nuclear "fallout" or the radiation created by atomic bombs caused cancer, which lead to many antinuclear movements to start up in America. In 1968 America and the Soviet Union took the lead in creating the NPT, which took effect in 1970. The NPT, or the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, requires that countries with nuclear weapons cannot use those weapon, must reduce their stockpiles of it, and not aid non-nuclear countries in obtaining nuclear weapons, along with requiring  countries without nuclear weapons to not acquiring nuclear weapons of their own. Some countries who did sign the NPT, like North Korea, are ignoring these requirements and making nuclear weapons, along with some countries that never signed and want nuclear weapons of their own. 

Central idea: Atomic bombs are dangerous weapons capable of destroying cities, feared yet yearned, throughout the world and time. 

1) The bomb "Little boy" exploded Hiroshima with about 13 kilotons of force and killed about 80,000 people instantly 

2) After the US and Soviet Union were able to create atomic bombs, many other world superpowers were creating, developing, and storing tens of thousands of nuclear weapons 

3) in 1968, the US, Soviet Union, and some other countries created a treaty to try and lower usage and production of atomic weapons, along with stopping the spread of them to other countries. 

Atom (noun)- the basic unit of a chemical element 

Thermonuclear (adjective)- relating to or using nuclear reactions that occur only at a very high temperatures 

Hydrogen (noun)- a colorless, odorless, highly flammable gas, the chemical element of atomic number 1 

Fallout (noun)- the dangerous amount of radiation caused by atomic bombs 

BOOM! 

The ground is shaking, the air is hazy 

Screams and cries can be heard ringing 

Throughout the land throughout the skies 

The radiation will never die 

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

Build a bomb

Build a bomb

Don't let those communists beat us to it

Build a bomb

Build a bomb

Build a bomb

We can't lose this race to the USSR

Build a bomb 

Build a bomb

Build a bomb

Even if Nevada is destroyed by fallout

Build a bomb 

Build a bomb

Build a bomb

Survival Town can be build again

Develop

Develop

Develop

Make them stronger than ever before

Develop

Develop

Develop

Detonate them one by one

Develop

Develop

Develop

Scientists must keep moving forward

Develop

Develop

Develop

So America can remain at the top

 

Detonate 

Detonate 

Detonate 

Bombs fall from the sky

Detonate 

Detonate 

Detonate 

Ignorance watches with amazement

Detonate 

Detonate 

Detonate 

Let the tests continue 'till

Detonate 

Detonate 

Detonate 

Fallout rules those barren lands

Who would've thought? 

The explosion shook the world. 

It left a hole in the hearts of people.

It will never get better…

Or so we thought.

Risen from the ashes, is peace.

Two countries once at odds,

Now allies. 

What once was war

Is now peace.

Who would've thought?