A few other countries had already thought of the idea of making an atomic bomb, such as, England. Japan had already started the actual procedure of making an atomic bomb. The United States was curious and worried about how the Germans were doing on their construction of the atomic bomb. The United States knew nothing about the production of the atomic bomb by the Germans nor the Japanese. “An assumption commonly made about the Japan and why they did not finish the bomb first was tha

In July 1941 began a race to produce an atomic weapon ahead of the Germans and in time to be used during the war. A director of a research, Nobel prize winner, Arthur H. Compton, made a time schedule for the project in January 1942:

The obstacles for getting the Manhattan Project started were huge, the remaining problems, before the United States was finished, were mind boggling, and the project itself grew quickly into the biggest most expensive weapons research-and-development operation of World War II. Overall, the Manhattan Project was an excellent project for the United States. The production of the atomic bombs was a war ending success for the United States. Though the atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killed and injured many people, the United States had to drop the bombs. Japan refused to surrender. People were committing suicide rather than surrendering, so the United States dropped the bombs crushing Japan’s will to fight, saving American lives as well as Japanese lives, and putting an end to World War II.

( Wilcox, 82). Six thousand dollars was available to start the research on the bomb. (Moss, 22).

The bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified. First off, if the United States had not dropped the bombs who knows when World War II would have ended?

When The United States dropped the bombs they were not exactly thinking about the future and the long term effects. The United States bombed Hiroshima on short term factors. Such as, saving thousands of American lives. For maximum psychological impact, both bombs were used in quick succession, one over Hiroshima and one over Nagasaki. These cities had not been previously bombed, and therefore the bombs’ damage could be accurately assessed. The United States estimates the number of killed in Hiroshima at 66,000 to 78,000 and in Nagasaki at 39,000. The Japanese estimates gave a combined total of 240,000. “The alternative for the United States would have been to try to invade the main island of Japan, where many more American lives would have been taken.” (Moss , 22). The dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki was the final scare from the United States to Japan.

On July 16, 1945 at 5:30 A.M., the first atomic bomb

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