The A-bomb in WWII

The atomic bomb killed many innocent people, but it was necessary to end World War II. After World War II began in 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the neutrality of the United States. Many people in the United States thought that their country should stay out of the war. The people wanted the Allied Forces to have the victory. President Roosevelt also wanted an Allied victory because an Axis victory might endanger democracies in the world. The United States equipped nations fighting the Axis with ships, tanks, aircraft, and other war materials, which angered the Axis nations. At this time, Japan was aiming to take control of China, though China refused. So, the United States started supplying China with war gear. This caused Japan to see United States as a target. A surprise attack was ordered by Japan on December 7, 1941. The target was the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii . Three hundred planes bombed the naval base killing around three thousand seven hundred people and destroying many warships, aircraft carriers, and submarines. This was a catalyst that brought the United States into World War II.

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President Truman justified his decision to drop atomic bombs on television in February 1965. He said:

World War Two was the worst war in history. The casualties were high and some of the nasty weapons were created. Thus referring to the atomic bomb. Though the use of the atomic bomb was necessary to end the war because if they did not use it then the war probably would have gone on and on. The problem is that the use of the atomic bomb probably made the number of casualties in the war higher than they would have been if it had not been used. It is hard to predict because we do not know what would have happened. In retrospect, we can justify that it made the war end quickly, for the fear of the bomb. And to this day, that single act may have prevented many more, or at least just delayed them… does the fear still exist?

It was August 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, when the Japanese government did not surrender, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki . This atom bomb was named "Fat Man." It was more powerful than the one dropped in Hiroshima. A bomber named Bock’s Car dropped “Fat Man”. New York Times reporter, William L. Laurence rode in an observation plane that accompanied the bomber. After the bomb was dropped, he described the blast:

President Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. Vice President Harry S. Truman became President of the United States. On May 7, 1945 Germany surrendered. Truman proclaimed May 8 as V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day). In July, President Truman went to Potsdam, Germany, to discuss war issues with Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain and Premier Stalin of the Soviet Union. During his time in Posdam, the President received secret word that the atomic bomb had been successfully tested. On his way back to the United States, President Truman ordered American fliers to drop an atomic bomb in Japan.

On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay left the Pacific island of Tinian to bomb the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, named the Enola Gay after his mother. The crew of Enola Gay was told that no one could be sure what would happen when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. The atomic bomb was named "Little Boy." The Enola Gay carried the "Little Boy" and 7,600 gallons of fuel that made it very heavy. No one was sure if the Enola Gay could be able to lift of the ground, so the final as

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