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Knight Ridder Tribune World War Ii
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787 wordsThe effects of the atomic bomb were terrible. Theres no doubt in my mind that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a costly mistake. Atomic bombs produce heat millions of degrees high, and visible ultraviolet and inferred rays. (Lapp 844) Everyone and everything exposed to their blast is affected. No one is left untouched, whether it be emotional or physical; in many cases both. However, many members of the science community argue that the atomic bomb was a great advance in te...
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Should We Have Dropped The Atomic Bomb
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1,229 wordsThe atomic bomb is the subject of much controversy. Since its first detonation in 1945, the entire world has heard the aftershocks of that blast. Issues concerning Nuclear Weapons sparked the Cold War. We also have the atomic bomb to thank for our relative peace in this time due to the fear of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). The effects of the atomic bomb might not have been the exact effects that the United States was looking for when they dropped Little Boy and Fat Man on Hiroshima and Nag...
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Atomic Bomb Was Dropped Dropped On Hiroshima
643 wordsEffects of the Atomic bomb By Ralph Coppinstuesday, August 8, 2000 The effects of the atomic bomb were terrible. There? s no doubt in my mind that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a costly mistake. Atomic bombs produce heat millions of degrees high, and visible ultraviolet and inferred rays. Everyone and everything exposed to their blast is affected. No one is left untouched, whether it be emotional or physical; in many cases both. However, many members of the science comm...
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First Atomic Bomb World War Ii
1,769 wordsDaniel Simons History 12 The year is 1945 and World War II has been going on for 6 years. The Germans led by Adolf Hitler, are starting to see one defeat after another. They lost the Eastern Front to the Russians and the Western front was slowly but surely being taken back by the allied forces, mainly the British and the Americans. The Americans had only entered the war 4 years before, but their impact on the war was so great. The Americans declared war on Japan on December 7, 1941, after the un...
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1,703 wordsHarold Clayton Urey Papers Background Harold Clayton Urey was a scientist of considerable scope whose discovery of deuterium helped him win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1934. Urey also made fundamental contributions to the production of the atomic bomb through his development of the isotope separation processes for the Manhattan Project. In the period following World War II, Urey played an active part in advocating nuclear arms control, in promoting space exploration and in the development o...
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1,920 wordsOn Little Boy Little Boy On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B- 29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in war. The city went up in flames caused by the immense power equal to about 20, 000 tons of TNT. The project was a success. Hundreds of thousands died and still more were wounded. This was the final triumph that finally brought Japan to surrender. The effects of the bomb are still being seen but there is no doubt...
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4,430 wordsThe Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II American Literature Rob Gioielli Mrs. Mcfarlansenior English 6 Dec. 1994 Gioielli 1 Rob Gioielli Mrs. Mcfarlansenior English 6 Dec. 1994 Then a tremendous flash of light cut across the sky. Mr. Tanimoto has a distinct recollection that it traveled from east to west, from the city toward the hills. It seemed like a sheet of sun. +John Hersey, from Hiroshima, pp. 8 On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. On that day the United States of Am...
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