Nearly sixty-nine years ago, The United States of America launched the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and later on Nagasaki. This was the period of panic, which the entire earth had opened its eye to be mesmerized by the horror of the atomic holocaust. President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson used the nuclear weapons; Little Boy and Fat Man merely as a military action to escape the loss of nearly millions of bodies in the next invasion on the Island of Kyushu. Even though Truman and Stimson saved up to millions of lives they still caused millions of innocent deaths.
Around the year of 1942 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the Manhattan Project after he had found out that the British were on …show more content…
On March 9, 1942 Vannevar Bush sent a commentary to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a heavy argument on for building the atomic bomb. "Present opinion indicates that successful use is possible, and that this would be very important and might be determining in the war effort. It is also true that if the enemy arrived at results first it would be an exceedingly serious matter."- Bush. Two days afterwards Vannevar Bush obtained President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s feedback. "I think the whole thing should be pushed not only in regard to development, but also with due regard to time. This is very much of the essence."- FDR. Vannevar Bush now received the green light to construct the atomic bomb but it had to be done quick. In order to keep the project a secrecy Vannevar requested that he turn the project over to the army. FDR agreed, and the nuclear project was handed over to the army in June 1942. On September 17, General Leslie Groves was deemed administrator of the Manhattan Project. The primary steps towards conducting the atomic bomb were seized by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago. On December 2, 1942 Enrico developed the first controlled nuclear reactor, below the bleachers of Stagg Field,