On August 6, 1945, the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. For years, there have been feuds relating to the justification of the bombing. Was the U.S justified? The United States was justified due to the unprovoked attack and bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which occurred three years prior to the bombing of Hiroshima, it was necessary to stop the war because it saved thousands of American lives. Until then, the fight had never been on United States soil. Innocent
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the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima (Truman, Reilly, 992). To this day this is only one of two incidents in history where an A-bomb has been used. The other was three days later by the United States on the city of Nagasaki, also located in Japan. This event was a very controversial act by the United States and shocked those around the world, but President Truman made sure to let all of the people of America know what they were doing when it came to atomic energy. It is very
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violence is the only alternative if there is a catastrophic threat, imminent danger, no other alternative and against a greater evil to a community. These are the 4 conditions of supreme emergency that can be used to justify the Hiroshima bombings if it was an act of supreme emergency or just an act of terrorism. A State is the organization which has the monopoly of the use of violence. There are two major forms of this. One is against other states, which we call war. The other is the organized violence
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in the present day, there was a point in history when they were afraid of each other. Their economic beliefs led them to disagree. The United States had an economy based upon capitalism and the Soviet Union was a nation that believed in communism. In addition, the United States invented the atomic bomb or “A-bomb” during World War II. This gave America the upper hand because the Soviets were unaware that the US had developed the A-bomb. At this time the Soviet Union was in a vulnerable state after
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Task: Evaluate the argument that America was justified in using atomic weapons against Japan in 1945. As one of the most significant and consequential decisions in the history of the world, President Harry Truman’s allowance of atomic weapons towards the end of World War II, of which he himself understood would cause both mass devastation and indignation, is still one of the most controversial and heavily debated topics in today’s society. This was partially due to the adverse underestimation
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BOOK REVIEW OF THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN WORLD WAR II BY DENISE KIERNAN Stacey Warden Mr. Day’s History 202 Northeast Alabama Community College July 21, 2015 Kiernan, Denise. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story Of The Women Who Helped Win World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013. Secrets. There have always been secrets when it comes to the military and government. In her book, The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story Of The
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Early Life Niels Bohr was born on the 7th of October 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark to a Jewish family as the middle child of 3. Bohr’s mother was from a rich Jewish banking family, and father was from a renowned physiologist, so Bohr was situated for success. Bohr attended Copenhagen University to earn his masters and doctorate in physics by 1911. Bohr traveled to Cambridge to work under scientist J.J. Thomson. In 1912, Bohr’s research theorized that atoms give off electromagnetic radiation as electrons
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theories and his life for the last couple of years. Today, I am going to talk about early years of Einstein’s life and some of his discoveries which changed the way we look at the world. Body: 1) Einstein was born in Germany and his passion for science started at a young age. A. Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg in the German Empire on March 14th 1879. B. In Einstein’s early ages, his father showed him a pocket compass; Einstein realized that there must be something causing
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In hydrogen bombs, both fission and fusion takes place. Nuclear fission can happen in any large nucleus after it captures a neutron. When this happens, it becomes unstable and splits into two different atoms at around half the mass and releases more neutrons, which starts a chain reaction. Low-energy neutrons can only cause fission in uranium and plutonium atoms of an odd atomic mass, like uranium-235 or plutonium-239, which releases two or three neutrons after undergoing fission. Even numbered
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Dropping of the Atomic Bomb When it comes down to President Harry Truman dropping the atomic bomb on Japan, it seems everyone has their own personal view or opinion on rather or not he made the right decision. I’m trying to imagine myself in Truman’s time period and the position that he had to take, and I wonder. What would I have done if I was in his shoes? What would I have done differently? Was President Harry Truman’s decision completely unnecessary? Oddly I would have to say I agree with his
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