After the successful invasion of Iwo Jima, Allied leaders were worried that a and invasion of Japan wold be difficult and costly. President Truman felt like the United States have taken enough casualties already. By using the atomic bomb, President Truman believed that it would limit the total casualties in general, especially on the American side. The Office of Scientific Research of Development (OSRD) was created to make scientists help the Allied war effort. The Advisory Committee on Uranium started research on the bomb and had a successful test on July 16th, 1945 near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Manhattan project was very secretive and 600,000 people worked on it and did not know completely what they were doing. To end the war, the U.S. threatened Japan to surrender. When they refused, President Truman ordered the use of atomic bomb, code name Little Boy, on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9th, 1945, a second atomic bomb, codename Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki. Emperor Hirohito after seeing the devastation caused by the bombs, ordered the surrender. The use of the atomic bomb on civilian centers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is still a controversial issue today.
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You're definitely write about it being a controversial issue :). Well written, good flow, and informative. Nice summary.
ReplyDeleteThis was very informative to me, as I never knew too much about the background of the atomic bomb. This is well written, detailed, and concise. Thanks for sharing this important information!
ReplyDeleteThis is a well written summary!
ReplyDeleteIts terrible that President Truman thought the bomb would limit casualties, when it did the total opposite.
This is written very nicely and is informative. It taught me that people had been working on the atomic bomb without knowing exactly what they were working on.
ReplyDeleteWell done! The first sentence is kind of choppy and has a couple typos, but the rest of the post is easy reading. Great job giving the facts and not taking a side, though I would like to hear about the details of the controversy here.
ReplyDeleteWell done, a great summary of a very important historic event
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