Around 8:15 am on 6 August 1945 a us B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay by its pilot Paul Tibbets dropped the first bomb (Little Boy) instantly killing 80,000 people.Three days later a second bomb (Fat Man) was dropped on Nagasaki killing 40,000 more. The reason we did this is the Japanese would not surrender and if we were to invade America would have lost a lot of soldiers.The bombs were being developed by a group of scientist known as the Manhattan Project at the time it was the largest collective scientific effort ever undertaken. involved 37 installations across the us, 13 university and a host of prestigious participants including nobel prizewinning physicist Arthur Holly Compton and Harold Urey. Directed by army chief engineer Brigadier
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Many voices in the military tried to convince and express caution with the new weapon but Truman believed it was a good idea and their only option to win the war.World War II came to an end on the 15th of August just six days after Nagasaki was bombed. We soon doubted the bomb when the survivors of the blast had been given harmfull effects by the residue left behind. When the first western scientists came to Japan after the bombs the described charred landscape populated by hideously burnt people, coughing up and urinating blood and waiting to die. Thanks to the long term effects the moral aspect divided historians between if dropping the bomb was the right or wrong answers . In the end Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not radioactive anymore mostly because the bombs didn’t touch the ground but were detonated in the air. Nagasaki was hit with the second bomb but Kakura was the first target it was changed also a month after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, a typhoon hit the city killing another 2,000 people. 10% of U.S. electricity is made from dismantled atomic bombs. In 1962, the U.S. blew up a Hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than …show more content…
Ct body scans give off to the patient the same radiation as being a mile and a half away from Hiroshima. There's a atomic bomb museum in new mexico, the museum is only open 12 hours per year and it’s where the the first atomic bomb was tested. A very lucky but unlucky man survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki also another survivor of hiroshima won a marathon in 1951 boston. A bonsai tree survived hiroshima and now resides in U.S. museum. Many who had survived the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attack begun to experience symptoms high fever, dizziness, nausea, headaches, diarrhea, bloody, stools, nosebleeds and whole-body weakness. Their hair fell out and their wounds had extreme amounts of pus and their gums bled, infections ravaged their internal organs. Many people died of the symptoms some losing consciousness and died in extreme pain other suffered for weeks either dying or slowly recovering. Those who had no injuries got sick and died too. Dr. Tatsuichiro Akizuki said that the nuclear attack reminded him of the black death pandemic the ravaged Europe In 1300s. Later a second wave of illnesses came through Nagasaki in the late August and at the start of
Many voices in the military tried to convince and express caution with the new weapon but Truman believed it was a good idea and their only option to win the war.World War II came to an end on the 15th of August just six days after Nagasaki was bombed. We soon doubted the bomb when the survivors of the blast had been given harmfull effects by the residue left behind. When the first western scientists came to Japan after the bombs the described charred landscape populated by hideously burnt people, coughing up and urinating blood and waiting to die. Thanks to the long term effects the moral aspect divided historians between if dropping the bomb was the right or wrong answers . In the end Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not radioactive anymore mostly because the bombs didn’t touch the ground but were detonated in the air. Nagasaki was hit with the second bomb but Kakura was the first target it was changed also a month after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, a typhoon hit the city killing another 2,000 people. 10% of U.S. electricity is made from dismantled atomic bombs. In 1962, the U.S. blew up a Hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than …show more content…
Ct body scans give off to the patient the same radiation as being a mile and a half away from Hiroshima. There's a atomic bomb museum in new mexico, the museum is only open 12 hours per year and it’s where the the first atomic bomb was tested. A very lucky but unlucky man survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki also another survivor of hiroshima won a marathon in 1951 boston. A bonsai tree survived hiroshima and now resides in U.S. museum. Many who had survived the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attack begun to experience symptoms high fever, dizziness, nausea, headaches, diarrhea, bloody, stools, nosebleeds and whole-body weakness. Their hair fell out and their wounds had extreme amounts of pus and their gums bled, infections ravaged their internal organs. Many people died of the symptoms some losing consciousness and died in extreme pain other suffered for weeks either dying or slowly recovering. Those who had no injuries got sick and died too. Dr. Tatsuichiro Akizuki said that the nuclear attack reminded him of the black death pandemic the ravaged Europe In 1300s. Later a second wave of illnesses came through Nagasaki in the late August and at the start of