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__**1st primary-**__ Report on the international control of atomic energy(1946) U.S. proposal issued on February 28, 1946, by a committee headed by U.S. undersecretary of state Dean Acheson and Tennessee Valley Authority Chairman David Lilienthal, on the international control of nuclear energy. The plan suggested an international atomic development authority that would have complete power worldwide over nuclear research and development. This plan, with the addition of a requirement for international inspection of nuclear facilities, was submitted to the United Nations on June 14 by U.S. delegate Bernard Baruch. It was rejected by the Soviet Union on the grounds that it infringed on national sovereignty.

Since the soviet union turned down this proposal, this meant that any one could be doing dangerous stuff with nuclear energy and no one would know if other countries were planning to attack somewhere with nuclear fire power. This connects to America using atomic bombs to end the war because after they used the atomic bombs to end the war, this would not allow any country to have to much atomic energy like America did during the war.

__**2nd primary-**__ The Anouncement of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima(August 6th, 1945) Sixteen Hours Ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.

In this excerpt Harry S. Truman is telling the American public that a plane had just dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima. Hiroshima was a very important japanese military base. This bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. and was two-thousand times stronger in blast power than the "Grand Slam" the largest bomb yet used in warfare. It was made by the British. This was important because barely anyone knew about the making of these atomic bombs and no one knew how americans would react.

My fellow countrymen, today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death—the seas bear only commerce—men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed, and in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way. I speak for the unnamed brave millions homeward bound to take up the challenge of that future which they did so much to salvage from the brink of disaster.
 * __3rd Primary-__** "Today the Guns are Silent" (september 2nd,1945)

This is a speech that was said by General Douglas Macarthur and the significance of this speech was that he was adressing the public people that the Japanese had surrendered and the war was coming to an end. A representative of the surrender party later reported to the emperor his releif at Macarthur's speech, knowing he could have made it sound much worse. This surrender and end to the war was caused because of the two atomic bombs america had used, and thats how this and my topic are connected.

__**10 Facts-**__ 1. The manhattan project was a secret military project created in 1942 to produce the first U.S. nuclear weapon. This plan was made in fear that Nazi Germany might be making nuclear weapons during WWII. 2.There were 3 main research and production facilities that were established in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and at Los Alamos, New mexico. 3.the atomic bomb "little boy" was dropped on hiroshima on August 6th 1945. 4. its beleived that nearly 70,000 people were killed immediatley, with another 70,000 survivors dying of injuries and radiation exposure by 1950. 5.August 9th, 1945 they drop another atomic bomb called "fat man" on the town of nagasaki. 6.later estimates of people killed from immediate and delayed effects were from 60,000 to 90,000 people. This number varies so much because the lack of precise information like how many people were in town that morning. 7.In Augsut 1939 Albert Einstein was told by Leo Szilard that germany could be in the process of making a nuclear weapon since they figured out nuclear fission. 8.He then wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning the could be in the process of making he nuclear weapon and urged Roosevelt to begin a project to develop an atomic bomb. 9.Military strategy of the United states was to achieve complete victory at lowest cost to U.S. lives, they beleived the atomic bombs would shorten the war and reduce U.S. casualties. 10.When Japan refused to surrender, thats when Truman decided to drop Atomic bombs on the japanese home islands.