Concerns about Germany developing the atomic bomb before the United States prompted the United States to start building test and production facilities across the country, code named the Manhattan Project, installations were erected in Tennessee, New York, Washington, New Mexico, and Illinois. ... The plutonium bomb was successfully tested at the Alamogardo bombing range on July 16th, 1945. The test produced an explosion the equivalent to 20 000 tons of TNT, and exceeded the expectations most scientist working on the project. ... Although it was stronger, it missed its intended target b...

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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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• Testing whether their bomb actually worked and to what extent. ... I believe the best way to deal with situation would have been negotiating with Americans allies to form a plan of attack to restrict Japan from not attacking and minimising deaths. ... They chose to do this to for several reasons including: • To test whether the atomic bombs would actually work and to what extent of the impact would have. ...

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Decision to Drop the Bomb Essay "Today the guns are silent, the Skies no longer rain death-the seas bear only commerce-men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. ... In the 161 days after Theodore Roosevelt's death, Harry S. ... Many supported this idea, that maybe it would save people from unnecessary death. ... 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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The first one was a test model named "Gadget," while the other two "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" where used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Countries started an arm race involving nuclear weapons and so did India. 18th of May 1974, India carried out its initial and first test in Pokhran, Rajasthan northwestern state. On May 11and 13, 1998 India set off five nuclear devices in the same test site, and from this moment India became one of the few countries owning nuclear weapons. ... Nuclear weapons were only used twice in warfare and caused the death of 200,000 civi...

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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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On August 6th and 9th of 1945 U.S. bombers dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing utter destruction and many deaths. ... In three years the U.S. was ready to test the first atomic bomb, and did in New Mexico. ... Less than a month after the first test, a bomb fell on Hiroshima. ... With statistics like these it is clearly seen that Pope John Paul II was right when he said, "Any nuclear war would inevitably cause death, disease, and suffering of pandemic proportions and without the possibility of effective medical intervention. ...

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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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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 never been tested, men discovered it's destructive powers and now fear them and are aware of them. ... Women died very often of giving birth; this was because of the dirtiness of the hospitals, not knowing that dirt can cause infections, and can eventually result to death. ...

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Before the successful testing of the atomic bomb, the United States had an elaborate set of plans for the invasion of Japan that were developed in the spring and summer of 1945. ... Although their country's ability to win the war was gone, if the Home Islands were invaded, "the Japanese civilian population, inflamed by a national slogan - "One Hundred Million Will Die for the Emperor and Nation" were prepared to fight to the death" (Davis, 1987). ...

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With the help of Seaborg and other renowned intellects on the Manhattan project, the United States was successful in creating and testing the first atomic bomb. ... The isotope can be used in two ways, one of high dosage to various parts of the body to kill cells as it causes mutation and death in cells that it penetrates due to its mode of beta decay, and as a radioactive tracer similar to technetium-99. ...

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Before the successful testing of the atomic bomb, the United States had an elaborate set of plans for the invasion of Japan that were developed in the spring and summer of 1945. ... Although their country's ability to win the war was gone, if the Home Islands were invaded, "the Japanese civilian population, inflamed by a national slogan - "One Hundred Million Will Die for the Emperor and Nation" were prepared to fight to the death....

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