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=Atomic Bomb=

Introduction: Creating and setting off explosions sounds like fun, right? Well picture this as the result: Shell shock, Cancer, radiation poisoning, and fear of death because of where you live. Not so great of an idea now, is it? This web page will briefly cover where atomic bombs originated, why they were made, and the outcome of it all.

__ Manhattan Project: __
 * An effort of the United States in association of the United Kingdom and Canada.
 * The attack on Pearl Harbor set the wheels of America turning and awakened a sleeping giant, The U.S. started to look into isotope separation.
 * Different types of isotope separation were being tested: electromagnetic, thermal, and gaseous.
 * Along with testing with different elements, Uranium was found to work the best.
 * Trinity project was the first testing of the atomic bomb.
 * The actual bomb that was tested was called the gadget.
 * The bomb was hoisted 100 yards up above ground by a steel tower.
 * The impact of the bomb left a crater 25 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 6 feet deep.
 * The Manhattan project was the first engineering and essentially the beginning of nuclear warfare.

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__ Hiroshima and Nagasaki __ · The bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were August 6, 1945 and the second on August 9, 1945. · The bombing was crucial in the surrender of Japan · Before the drop of the atomic bombs America and the United Kingdom relentlessly fire bombed 67 Japanese cities. · A surrender declaration to Japan was sent out but Japan ignored the call. · An executive decision by President Harry S. Truman was made to drop two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. · The bombing left a heavy death toll on Japan. It’s estimated that 90,000-166,000 died in Hiroshima and 60,000-80,000 died in Nagasaki. · Not everyone died from the initial blast of the bombings. People were dying from radiation sickness, and deep burns weeks after the bombings. · 6 days after the bombing of Nagasaki Japan declared it’s international surrender to the Allied forces. · These bombings proved to be a big turning point for the Allied forces to winning the war.

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[] · The Soviet Union started to gain interest in nuclear science the 1930’s. · The Soviet weapons program started in WWII. · It was run by a man named Lavrenti Beria, he was the chief of the secret soviet police. · Under him was Igor Kurchatov, the scientific director. · The first soviet nuclear test was called “first lightning” it was the RDS-1, a plutonium bomb. · Klaus Fuchs was a German man that gave U.S intelligence about the atomic bomb to the Soviets. []
 * Soviet Atomic Weapons Project and Espionage **

---Beria __Nuclear Testing__ · War in Asia caused the United States to consider testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific Ocean. · In Nevada, they developed a testing site because of many safety features. (Low population density, winds blowing away from the people living on the west coast, and hundreds of miles of flat, government owned land.   · The testing of this area didn’t start until January of 1951, when a one-kiloton bomb dropped from an airplane, exploding over Frenchman Flat.    · The effects of this nuclear mushroom-shaped cloud, appearing after the bomb is that parts of Nevada and Southern Utah were exposed to Cancer or Birth Defects.    · Atomic Energy Commission press releases promised that atomic tests would be conducted "with adequate assurances of safety."    · Residents of southern Nevada and southern Utah who lived downwind of the tests initially believed what they were told.    · A historian wrote, “Their faith and trust in their government would not allow them to even consider the possibility that the government would ever endanger their health.”   [] · Atomic bombs were the first of any nuclear weapons to be tested and used. · In the late 1930’s, American and European physicists had realized the power that could be created by the fission of uranium. · They noted it had the potential to be an extremely powerful explosive weapon. · Albert Einstein sent a letter of warning to Franklin D. Roosevelt describing his concern that there was a possibility of development in other countries. The U.S. then created the Manhattan Project. · [] media type="youtube" key="tu36SD7CBz0" height="349" width="425"

Conclusion: Contrary to popular belief, most of the people that were killed died from the radiation poisoning. Radiation stripped the land of essential nutrients that agriculture needed in order to continue growing. In many states, due to the testing and nuclear waste debris, people run a higher risk of being afflicted with cancer. Due to the bombing that occurred in Japan, U.S. citizens were living in fear of that same fate. In reaction to that fear, people all over the country started building bomb shelters that are still in existence to this day. Works Cited "Citizen Kurchatov - Beria." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. . Ganguly, Poushali. "Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Buzzle Web Portal: Intelligent Life on the Web. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. . "Nuclear Testing and the Downwinders." Utah History to Go. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. . "The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program." The Nuclear Weapon Archive - A Guide to Nuclear Weapons. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. .