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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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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I became interested in this topic because of my interest in history. It seemed an appropriate topic because I am presently studying World War 2 in my history Class. ... FDR died on April 12, three months before the first successful Trinity test (Beyer 56). ... The Manhattan Project was one of the most important parts of American History. ... Nuclear testing, nuclear power, and nuclear waste are still being debated for over 50 years, and the United States,...

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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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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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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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The research, studying and testing of this atomic bomb received the code name the Manhattan project. ... There is no way we would be able to tell exactly how many lives were saved just by the fact that we would no longer need to invade Japan but given Japan's history of resistance the number of casualties would have exceeded that of the atomic bombing. The United States had already developed plans to invade Japan naming the plans, "Operation Downfall," and the execution of this plan had an estimate of 24,000 Japanese and American Soldiers dying every day and it is unimaginable h...

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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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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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"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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To an addition, after world war two, in 1945, the Cold war started latter giving birth to the greatest arm race ever between the major superpowers, mainly; United States and Soviet Union in the early 1950s.6 During the arms race both United States and Soviet Union tested their nuclear weapon. ... In fact history had confirmed it; there had never been a nuclear war between nuclear weapons states. ...

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