The bombs "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" were dropped respectively on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with the death total estimated to be 180,000 Japanese civilians and soldiers. ... The test of the atomic bomb was named "Trinity," and it was a major success. The test bomb was detonated resulting in a shockwave that could be felt over 100 miles away and heard as far as El Paso, Texas. The bomb created a crater at the test site spanning 250 feet and a mushroom cloud reaching 7.5 miles into the air (Wikipedia). ... On August 9, the atomic bomb "Fat Man" was detonat...

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The bomb caused immense amounts of casualties while the unusual consequence of radiation resulted in many more deaths among the survivors. ... The amount of deaths caused by an invasion would have easily surpassed those of the atomic bombings. ... Roughly seven thousand American marines and sailors lost their lives, in addition there were twenty one thousand other American deaths. ... The Japanese would have fought until they all starved to death due to the blockade or until they had been bombed into nothingness. ... Essentially, in the end, it was President Truman's decision to use and...

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Then on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico the Manhattan project had its very first successful drop. Although the Trinity test was a success, the allied powers already had defeated Germany in Europe, but Japan, however, announce they would fight until the bitter end despite the very slim chances they had of winning. ... Hiroshima was a manufacturing center of approximately 350,000 people located 500 miles from Japans capital Tokyo, was selected because it not only held an important military base, but also it had not been targeted by conventional bombing raids, a...

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First, the Emperor didn't not intervene in political affairs as he was considered to be above such petty human politics, and second, the Japanese code of honor which puts death before dishonor. ... The Japanese people had such a passion for their Emperor that if there was the slightest hint that he was going to be treated like a common war criminal, the Japanese people, man, woman, and children would rather fight to the death before they allow such a thing to take place. ... The major concern for the Japanese military was the loss of honor; they had a code of "death before dishonor" (Long...

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The research, studying and testing of this atomic bomb received the code name the Manhattan project. ... So on Aug. 6, 1945 the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, "causing death or serious injury to about 160,000 people," (HIST, 426) then later there was a second bomb dropped on, "Nagasaki killing between 60,000 and 80,000 people," (HIST, 426). ...

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Gojira is a science-fiction/horror film around a mutant animal from the Jurassic period with atomic forces, brought to life as an after-effect of the nuclear blast and close-by atomic bomb testing. ... The deaths in the scene show rather an impersonal connection. ... Serizawa's announcements in Godzilla includes more stun quality when he makes his own death possible with his own development, it takes away an imperative message of the film (intended by Honda in the original) that should not have been disregarded in the American version. ...

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