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WWII Research and Symposium Assignment FLKK



This is a picture of the atomic bombing of the Japanese City Nagasaki. This event occured a few days after the first atomic bomb was ever dropped. The first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan. This was a very rash decision by the American government and Military. So many people were affected by that bombs side effects, the same number of people that died from the original bomb explosions was the same amount of people that died of complications with leukemia and radiation poisoning. The second bomb at Nagasaki killed 50,000 people and devasted the japanese town.

The Franck Report was a argument or plea to the United States government. It was sent from a group of seven scientists from all over the world, led by James Franck. These men were the smartest in the world and they met secretly at several times to make the report flawless. These men all had work that they put in on their part of the Manhattan Project.


 * Nuclear Power...."is fraught with infinitely greater dangers than were all the inventions of the past."

What the scientists were talking about in the quote above was that nuclear power is not to be messed with. They believed that no one should tamper or bother with nuclear power because it will bring more harm than any invention ever created in the past. The cost of all this is also uneccesary, 2 billion dollars went towards the Manhattan Project that could have been used for something more useful.
 * "They may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth."

This quote is from the announcement speech, given by the president of the time Harry Truman, which explained to the US citizens that the US military had dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. This is what Truman said when he was warning the Japanese to surrender so they knew that this was coming. The US knew that the Japanese surrender was imminent, so why do they go so far as to drop a nuke on two of the Japanese cities