https://padlet.com/20webbch/jrkj3n3ztzl7 en-us 2018-03-24 01:25:04 UTC 2018-03-24 01:35:09 UTC hello@padlet.com 20webbch https://padlet.com/20webbch/jrkj3n3ztzl7/wish/245685614 The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II. The controversial creation and eventual use of the atomic bomb engaged some of the world’s leading scientific minds, as well as the U.S. military—and most of the work was done in Los Alamos, New Mexico, not the borough of New York City for which it was originally named. The Manhattan Project was started in response to fears that German scientists had been working on a weapon using nuclear technology since the 1930s—and that Adolf Hitler was prepared to use it.]]> 2018-03-24 01:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/20webbch/jrkj3n3ztzl7/wish/245685614 20webbch https://padlet.com/20webbch/jrkj3n3ztzl7/wish/245685798 On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. More than 140,000 people died in the devastating blast which killed, maimed and traumatised civilians in the city for decades to come. Three days later, the Americans dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki that killed about 40,000 more and left a trail of destruction in its wake. The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki became known for cancers, premature births and malformed babies. Survivors of the bombing and their families were shunned; the effects of the bomb blast outlived its survivors. This week the world remembers the fateful attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which changed the world forever.

]]> 2018-03-24 01:31:16 UTC https://padlet.com/20webbch/jrkj3n3ztzl7/wish/245685798 20webbch https://padlet.com/20webbch/jrkj3n3ztzl7/wish/245685835 I believe it was needed to drop the bombs in Japan. The Japanese were not taking us seriously ans continued to do what we warned them not to do. The United States needed to make a statement and they did that with the bombings in Hiroshima and in Nagasaki. ]]> 2018-03-24 01:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/20webbch/jrkj3n3ztzl7/wish/245685835