If I was asked the question, "Do you think that the study of history is important?" ... If we do not study history, we would not have an identity. ... One thing I do not appreciate about history is the way it is taught in schools. ... Many lives are saved due to history. There can be many discoveries alike that have been tested and people have been killed, so when similar discoveries are found the necessary precautions are taken into mind. ...

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When you look at History you might just think that history does repeat itself, probably thinking of the First World War and Second World War, because that is what I thought at first, but then I looked deeper and realized that I was completely wrong, history does not repeat itself. ... History is the written records of the past, but there can be more than one version of the event. ... On August 6 1945 the U.S.A who, for the first time in history, used atomic bombs to bomb Hiroshima, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb had never been used before and it's affects had neve...

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Atomic bombs were the first nuclear weapons to be developed, tested, and used. ... The Trinity test (the code name for the test of the first atomic bomb), on July 16, 1945, was an amazing success (Kimball). ... When the news got back to President Truman, he said, "This is the greatest day in history!" ... "The History of the Atomic Bomb" 2003: March 23rd 2003 Church, George J. ... "Hiroshima Archive" February 16 1996: March 22nd 2003 Walker, Gregory. ...

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At that time in history the Cold War was at its prime state and America's fear of the Communists was at an all time high. ... Another major concern for the United States was that they were no longer alone in the nuclear market because they had learned that the Soviet Union had also created and tested atomic bombs. ... When they tested Semyorka with a dummy warhead, it was destroyed while entering back into the earth's atmosphere. ... One thing that really came of age during this point in history that would be impossible to ignore is the threat of spies and what that particular fear ...

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Thesis Statement History of the Atomic Bomb A. ... Testing and Bombing A. ... The race was on to construct one of the most deadly weapons in the history of warfare(Chamberlin 8). ... With the threat of the biggest weapon in history about to be constructed by the enemy, the U.S. had to get to work. ... At last it was time for the testing and bombing, to see if all the hard work had paid off. ...

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"The Manhattan Project ranks as the largest industrial and scientific effort in the history of the world, costing more than $2 billion in 1945 dollars and involving more than 175,000 workers. ... They tested the bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico. ... They used one for testing and The United States still have one for use. ...

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Just three weeks after the leading test on august 6, a second atomic bomb was detonated, this time over the municipality of Hiroshima. ... In the Nuclear Age, there has been a fearful stimulate of the conflicts between the drives of violence and the forces of reason, between savageness and respect, that have been throughout human history. ... In the 50 years since history's first atomic explosion, the promises and perils of nuclear science have touched nearly every aspect of our culture and politics. ... The first nuclear weapon was built and tested in the United States. ... The first bom...

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The nuclear bomb was developed in Manhattan project during the WW II and was successfully tested in the New Mexico on July 16 1945. ... [WWW document]. http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol4/v4n25nuc.html Nuclear History at the National Security Archive [WWW document]. ...

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Nuclear Weapons History. ... During the 1950s multi megaton nuclear warheads were tested above ground. ... (2) If nations cannot test nuclear weapons, they cannot build nuclear weapons. ... Forgotten was that one of the two types of nuclear weapons dropped in Japan had never been tested and the other type worked at Trinity during its first test. ... Israel is believed to have a stockpile of nuclear weapons without having tested nuclear weapons...

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Six years and 2 billion dollars later the Manhattan Project produced the first atomic bomb in history (Serendipity: Manhattan Project para.5). The bomb was tested in northern New Mexico on July 16th, 1945. ... The testing of the bomb in New Mexico was the first detonation, however it was not the last (Serendipity: Manhattan Project para.10). ... It will be passed down through history books and memorials. ...

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In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Four square miles of the city was reduced to rubble and more than 80,000 innocent civilians were killed on impact. The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days...

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The project was revealed to Truman by his Secretary of War Henry Stimson with this cautionary forward: "In four months, we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon known in human history, one bomb of which could destroy a whole city. ... Though the test bombing in Alamogordo, New Mexico, had given them an idea of the blast radius and the effect on the land, no one could have determined the effect on humans, short or long term. ...

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I could not worry about what history would say about my personal morality. ... Japan's unresponsiveness to calls and warnings from the U.S., gave them a window of opportunity to use Japan's stubbornness and cruelty as an excuse to test the true abilities of the newly invented A-bombs. ... One of the reasons that Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bombs, may be that the United States simply wanted to test them. ... For the first time in human history, there are weapons that can destroy all of the human race....

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When at the Potsdam meeting with Stalin and Churchill, Truman received word of the great success of the Trinity test. ... With the dropping of the atomic bomb, American's got their revenge, and World War II was on its way to becoming a part of history. ...

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On August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945 were days in history like no other (Alperovitz 2). Only one country in history has ever used an atomic bomb against another nation, the United States of America, code named the Manhattan Project (Lewis 1). ... President Truman received news of the successful test while negotiating the post-war settlement in Europe at the Potsdam Conference (Grant 22). ...

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During his time in Posdam, the President received secret word that the atomic bomb had been successfully tested. ... I could not worry about what history would say about my personal morality. ... World War Two was the worst war in history. ...

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The December 7, 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was one of the great defining moments in history. ... The Potsdam Conference opened in mid-July 1945, the day after the President learned about the successful test explosion of an atomic bomb in a remote area in New Mexico. ...

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Weapons of Warfare The weapons of war have dramatically changed throughout the ages. From the club to the machine gun weapons have been upgraded with the most advanced technology man has: their minds. War has been around since man first evolved. It has been one of "mans chief activities for thous...

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Eventually, through about two months of construction at the Jornado del Muerto desert in central New Mexico, codenamed "Trinity" by Oppenheimer, the atomic implosion bomb was ready to test in July of 1945. ... After the successful test at Trinity, it was then time to adapt the weapon for a practical use, actually converting it into a bomb. ... He wrote in his diary: We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. ...

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The Cold War is a difficult term to define. It is a term used to describe the conflict between the U.S and Russia during the post-war period. However, there was no actual fighting between the two, just threats and anti-opposition propaganda. Another problem with the Cold war is that because it ...

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This mistake made the most serious nuclear accident in the world, and was the only level 7 accident in nuclear history. ... After the nuclear weapon testing in America, there was a scientist exclaimed that he didn't know what a devil they had made and couldn't imagine the future life and war will happen on the earth. ...

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"Stimson.. seemed at least as much concerned with the role of the atomic bomb in the shaping of history as in it's capacity to shorten this war" Stimson then tackled this project head on and an Interim committee was set up to control the S-1 issue. ... The final "nail in the coffin" concerning the use of the atomic bomb was the Trinity test which took place on July 16th 1945. ...

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