Hiroshima

            
             The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a tragic but necessary event. Japan basically pulled the United States into World War 2. Many Americans were furious with Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
             The president at the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt, first heard about the possibility of an atomic bomb in October of 1939. He received a letter from Albert Einstein. The letter indicated that extremely powerful bombs of a new type could be built. Einstein made it clear that he wanted the United States to have the bomb before anyone else. In response, Roosevelt set up an "uranium committee" to do some further research into the atomic bomb. The committee was strictly low priority, but soon after Britain learned how an atomic explosion could be controlled. In 1941, with Britain's newfound information, Roosevelt launched the Manhattan Project. The race to build an atomic bomb was on. .
             Top nuclear scientists worked together mostly in Los Alamos, New Mexico. An enormous camp was built where scientists and technicians lived with their family in a fenced in community. The community was high security, hence being closely watched by military security men. The president secretly gave the project 2 billion dollars, hiding it from the congress and public. Eventually 200,000 people were lending helping hands to make the bomb, most not even knowing it. With everything they needed, scientists and technicians raced around the clock trying to finish the atomic bomb before the war ended. Most of the people helping would feel like their time and money were wasted if they couldn't carry out the bomb on someone. With the newly elected president, Harry S. Truman, and his advisors, the United States started to plan the drop. Not wanting to kill very many civilians was a mutual feeling among the cabinet. One idea was to drop one bomb into a deserted area and then threaten to use it if Japan didn't surrender.