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The Atomic Bomb
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The Manhattan Project
(1942 – 1945)
Albert Einstein
(Introduced Idea) J. Robert Oppeinheimer
(Lead Scientist)
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Successful Test: July 16, 1945
Los Alamos, New Mexico
• $2 billion and 130,000 people
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Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
• Plane: Enola Gay
• Bomb: Little Boy
• Killed: 140,000
• Destroyed: 1 mile
• Fire radius: 4.4 mile
• Buildings
destroyed: 90%
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Hiroshima
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Enola Gay
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Enola Gay
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Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
• Plane: Bocks Car
• Bomb: Fat Man
• Killed: 70,000
• Destroyed: 1 mile
• Fire radius: 3.2 mile
• Degrees: 7000 F
• Winds: 624 mph
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Atomic Bomb Victims
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Decision to Use the A-Bomb
Proponents Opponents
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Proponents of the A-Bomb
1. Save
American
Lives
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Battle of Okinawa (April 1 – June 23, 1945)
American Results
• Dead: 12,000 +
• Wounded: 36,000 +
• Ships
– Lost: 36
– Damaged: 368
Potential Attack on Japanese Home Islands
1 million additional casualties
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2. End World War II
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3. Revenge –Pearl Harbor (1941)
• 2,402 Americans killed
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4. Keep Russia out of Japan
• At the beginning of WWII, Russia and US were allies
• Russia helped US to defeat Germany
• Russia and US worked to rebuild Germany
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Russia started to become aggressive (1945)
US does not want to
work with Russia to
defeat Japan.
Why?
Russia will gain control
of parts of Japan like
Germany
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Rivalry: US vs. USSR
The Cold War –struggle between the US and USSR for
global power
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Opponents of the A-Bomb
1. Murder
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2. Will it work?
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Tokyo,
Japan
Dresden,
Germany
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3. Conventional Bombing Was
Working (1945)
• March -10 days over 11,600 B-29 sorties
– Destroyed 32 square miles in 4 cities
– Killed over 150,000 people
• 6,960 bombing missions against 60 cities
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Japan
Going to
Surrender
to Russia?
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The Nuclear Age