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The Atomic bomb droppings were necessary for Japanese Defeat in World War II __//** Primary Sources: **//__
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 * 1) The Manhattan Project was the secret development of the Atomic Bomb in the U.S. 600,000 people worked on it and most had no idea what its full intentions were.
 * 2) The Trinity Nuclear test was the first ever test or use of an atomic bomb. It took place in a desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16th, 1941 at 5 am. It yielded an estimated 13-19 kiloton explosion. The bomb tested was a version of Fat Man the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki
 * 3) On August 6th, 1945 at 8:15 am in Hiroshima the bomb code named Little Boy a Uranium 235 bomb was dropped by the US plane Enola Gay.
 * 4) On August 9th, 1945 at 11:02 am in Nagasaki japan the bomb code named Fat Man a plutonium bomb was dropped. This atomic bomb dropping made Hideki Tojo to surrender to the Allies.
 * 5) Nagasaki Japan was a major military based city was designated as the target for the second Nuclear drop by the US by the bomb code named Fat Man, the city had 270,000 or more people living there, it was aimed to destroy Japanese military production so that the US could invade Japan if they didn't surrender, from the bomb over 73,884 people died and 74,909 or more were injured.
 * 6) Hiroshima Japan was a city of over 350,000 people in it and was targeted for its vast population and because it hadn't been bombed yet during the war so was a prime target for the bomb Code named Little Man. On August 10th, 1946 118,661 people had died from the blast.
 * 7) On February 19th, 1945 Iwo Jima's assault by the US started. This Island was 4.5 long by 2.5 miles at its widest. Yet it took 72 days of battle for the island to be liberated. This was due to the Japanese military fight to death philosophy and their knowledge of the island. This was done on every Japanese owned territory and meant that Japan would never give up so we used the Atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima so that we wouldn’t have to conquer all of Japan prolonging the war for possibly more than a year and have millions more die.
 * 8) The Japanese Kamikaze's was another way you can tell that the atomic bombs where necessary. In late 1944 a special group of 22 people volunteered to fly planes that were bombs to be flown into ships. This showed how Japanese pride was so great that they would fight to death and commit suicide to protect the homeland.
 * 9) Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president from 1932-1945 he was the only president to be elected more than twice and was actually elected 4 times before his death, he never saw VE day victory in Europe day or the usage of the Manhattan project on Japan which he started.
 * 10) Albert Einstein was a German scientist and wrote a letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt telling him to begin research into creating an atomic bomb before the Germans did.

This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of this type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove too heavy for transportion by air. The United States has only very poor ores of uranium in moderate quantities. There is some good ore in Canada and former Czechoslovakia, while the most important source of uranium is in the Belgian Congo.

Albert Einstein sent this letter to Roosevelt. He sent it to him telling him of the German production of an atomic bomb of immense power. He told Roosevelt that he should start research on the bomb before Germany can finish it. This made Roosevelt create the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan project eventually created a plutonium and uranium atomic bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan forcing japan to surrender ending World War 2.

At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion. And what an explosion!

The Trinity Test Nuclear Test was very important to the Atomic Bomb. This was a test of the Plutonium bomb Fat Man which was dropped on Nagasaki. The test was in the New Mexico Desert and yielded an estimated 13-19 kilotons of TNT. This was the test of the bomb to see if it would work. Now it was up to Harry S. Truman to decide if we would use it on Japan.

First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan; Missile Is Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT; Truman Warns Foe of a 'Rain of Ruin'

The dropping of the Atomic Bomb little boy on Hiroshima Japan was crucial to the surrender of Japan. This bomb dropping destroyed Japanese morale. In addition to the bomb on Nagasaki led to Japanese unconditional surrender. If this was not done the way would have been going on for more years and millions more would die. So in conclusion the US bomb drop was necessary

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