Hiroshima and Nagasaki -Why Did the U.S. Use the Atomic Bomb?Oppenheimer
All of them believed that Japan had already been beaten and that the war would soon end. Was the bomb dropped to end the war more quickly? Or did it herald the start of the Cold War? In his probing new study, prizewinning historian Ronald Takaki explores these factors and more. He ...
Atomic Bomb History In addition to introducing the world to the previously top-secret atomic research program known as theManhattan Project, Truman doubled down on the threat that nuclear weapons posed to Japan, America’s only remaining adversary in the war. If the Japanese did not accept the...
On Aug. 6, 1945, an American B-29 named the Enola Gay dropped and detonated a five-ton atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb’s 15-kiloton explosion claimed the lives ofabout 70,000 peopleinstantly. While there’s some debate about the total number of individua...
1. Churchill did not want to meet Stalin when the bulk of the Soviet Army would still be in Europe and most of the Americans gone.Truman disagreed with Churchill - one of their few differences. But his reason was the same. He wanted to wait until he knew that the bomb was about to ...
Hiroshima, Then Nagasaki: Why the US Deployed the Second A-Bomb The explicit reason was to swiftly end the war with Japan. But it was also intended to send a message to the Soviets. Read more Why Congress Passed the Defense Production Act in 1950 The Cold War-era law went into effect ...
that the American desire to contain the Soviet Union as it was then was already evident in the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, because they wanted to show the Russians what terrible weapons of mass destruction the Americans possessed, so as to essential...
Tomorrow morning a dirty bomb may explode in the heart of Dallas or Washington revealing the fact that some suitcase bombs are circulating in Muslim circles. A mushroom cloud does not portend a normal life for anyone in America. But then, “It’s never happened here.” Yet!
The first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Its destruction was enormous, but Japan still did not appear willing to surrender. On the morning of August 6 in America, radio stations played a recorded address by President Truman. He announced the use of the...
THE atomic bomb that was detonated over Hiroshima 50 years ago today, and the second one which destroyed Nagasaki three days later, were not exclusively American creations. The Manhattan Project which produced them owed its inspiration in large measure to work conducted in Britain in 1940 and 1941...