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**     media type="custom" key="814851" width="248" height="217" Was The Atomic Bomb Necessary? **    **On August 6 1945 The Enola Gay Bomber dropped an [|atomic bomb] over** [|****Hiroshima, Japan****] **shortly after 8:15 AM from an altitude of 31,600 ft. leaving behind a creation of man to unleash hell. Some say that the war shows winning of a war shows how strong a country is but the U.S. shows mankind how strong they are by ending a war with an atomic bomb. Creating the bomb was not only to end the war but for national pride.** **Imagine waking up in a hot summer morning and walking and seeing a great mushroom cloud of fire and smoke at the horizon. Not knowing where it came from but knowing that the explosion was here form miles away and destroyed a beautiful island. Later a dust cloud of radio active debris comes in to you home and completely covers it. Imagine your self living in a completely dark world where later you find dead bodies all around you and knowing that that might be you next. All these things came to mind to the people who were not struck by the explosion.** **The** [|****Manhattan Project****] **was the project in which the U.S. developed the Atomic Bomb.** [|****General Leslie Groves****] **was the commander of the Manhattan Project. The Bomb started to develop in the University of Chicago by physicist Enrico Fermi. On December 1942 the first controlled nuclear reaction occurred under the bleachers at Stagg Field, the University’s football field.** [|****Vannevar Bush****]  **told [|Franklin Delano Roosevelt] the latest achievements of Britain with nuclear research. Roosevelt told Bush to begin nuclear research in the U.S. “in every possible way”. Just by saying those four words you can see how he wanted to build the atomic bomb first, as if it was a race. The British were confident that they were going to make a war ending bomb. Roosevelt knew that and still wanted to make the bomb before the British to show that the U.S. was powerful. The U.S. did not have to make the bomb. A month after the nuclear reaction occurred under the bleachers, Roosevelt authorized 400 million dollars for [|uranium] separation and to create** [|****plutonium production plants****]**.** **On March 1943 Commander of the Manhattan Project, Leslie Groves opened a nuclear laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The laboratory was under the directorship of [|J. Robert Oppenheimer]. On the spring of 1945 more that 3000 scientists and engineers had come to Los Alamos to make the bomb. On July 1945 in a desert near Alamogordo the first bomb was successfully tested. The Nuclear Age had begun three weeks later when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.** **On August 9 at approximately 11:00 A.M. The U.S. dropped another bomb over [|Nagasaki, Japan], killing more than 40,000 innocent people. The United States did not have to drop one bomb but know they dropped a second. A second unnecessary should have never dropped. Knowing that the United States wanted the power of nuclear weapons, Roosevelt built the bomb for pride. The War was already over.** **“At the moment, few if any doubted that the purpose of the first use of the atomic bomb was to bring the war to the swiftest possible end, and there by to avert American casualties. The bomb was dropped primarily for its effect not on Japan but on the Soviet Union. One, to force a Japanese surrender before USSR came into the far Eastern War, and two, to show war conditions the power of the bomb. Said by Paul Fussel, who was a soldier at the time and now literary historian.** **
 * Jacob Carmona  **
 * Mr.Olmstead  **
 * American History/English 212  **
 * `The United States did wrong and wanted to become a threat. Making the bomb started a revolution in technology which know almost every country in the world has possession of. Creating the bomb started a new war ending option, destroying a country with a bomb, a mushroom cloud of radio active dust killing anyone who breaths it.