On August 6th, 1945, the world began a new age, the nuclear age. At 8:16, that morning, we got the loud power of our self-destruction. That was the Hiroshima bombing. Some days after, on August 9th, we got a new demonstration of our death power with Nagasaki. The catastrophe of the atomic bombs dropped on those two cities is one of the worst moments of our history. It meant the death of more than one hundred forty thousand people immediately or with in a few months after the drop. .
Leo Szilard, a physicist who lived in the United States, felt the incredible power of the recent scientific progress. Frightened by the Nazi threat and the technological power of Germany, he persuaded Einstein to write a letter to the President of the United States. In that letter, Roosevelt was informed about a new form of energy which could be used in bombs: the nuclear power. That letter convinced him to make the atomic bomb before Germany. The United States concealed its project to develop an atomic bomb under the name "Manhattan Engineer District." On July 2nd, Stimson wrote to the President, demanding that Japan be warned before using the A-bomb. The atomic bomb carried out the first successful atomic explosion on July 16, 1945, in a deserted area called Jornada del Muerto near Alamagordo, New Mexico. The Hiroshima Bomb measured in length three meters, and in diameter zero point seven meters. The bomb weight four tons and bomb contain a nuclear material called uranium 235. This bomb was named "Little Boy".
On August 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped, then later on August 9 the second bomb was dropped. It was then when Japan surrendered to the U.S. After the bomb was dropped, the American population was happy the war ended. Americans were tired by atrocities, privations and bombardments, and they didn't know the dreadful effects of atomic bombs. That poll showed that senior citizens still approve of the bombing, unlike younger Americans under the age of thirty.
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On that day the United States of America detonated an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. ... In Hiroshima this atomic bomb killed 100,000 people mostly civilians and in Nagasaki three days later it killed 40,000 people. ... The atomic bomb would penetrate every fabric of American existence, from our politics to our educational system, our industry and our art. ... It is told from a point of view of six hibakussha's, survivors of the atomic blast. ... His work was the transiton between works that glorified the dropping of the atomic bomb, to those that focused on its amazing destructi...
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The first military application of the atomic bomb followed shortly after the tests. On August 6, 1945 the U.S. dropped its first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. ... These bombs use the same principals as the atomic bomb, but with a few variations. ... First an atomic bomb explodes triggering the hydrogen and atoms. ... Other effects of a hydrogen bomb are the shock effect and the heat effect, similar to the effects of an atomic bomb depending on the size of the bomb. ...
Although the most memorable effects of the atomic bomb were the mass amounts of death, the development of the atomic bomb has greatly influenced American society and the world. ... The project was designed to research and create a usable atomic bomb. ... The first atomic bomb, Fat Boy, was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. ... Also, the development of the atomic bomb cost two billion dollars. ... The development of the atomic bomb, also, heavily influenced artists of the fifties. ...
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