Atomic Bomb
This report is about the Atomic Bomb, what
it demolished, and what were
different opinions on the war. Of course there
were many different opinions,
ranging from we didn’t have to do it. To it was
the only thing that seemed
possible to get the war stopped. And others wonder
why it had to be over
civilian homes and work places. Roosevelt knew all
about the bomb. The bomb was
under a top-secret name called. THE MANHATTEN
PROJECT! Albert Einstein and other
nuclear physicists persuaded Roosevelt to
set up a program for a bomb of such
destruction before the Nazis did. 12 days
into Truman’s reign as President he
was notified of the top-secret bomb. And
was asked what he wanted to do. He
decided to drop the bomb as we all know.
Henry L. Stimson Sec. Of War was the
chief advisor to Roosevelt about the
bomb. After F.D.R died and Truman took
over, Truman had to rely strictly on
what Stimson told him about the bomb since
Truman eventhough he was V.P
knew nothing about the new bomb being developed. As
I read Stimson,
Roosevelt and Truman had all been for dropping the bomb. Ralph
Bards was
Under Secretary of the Navy at the time was for dropping the bomb but
he
thought that Japan deserved some type of warning 2-3 days before
actually
dropping it. After the bomb was dropped he said that Japan would
have made peace
with giving them warning and in turn we "gave them all the
tremendous things
we gave them in those 5 days...Participation in the war".
Eisenhower did not
like that idea of using the bomb. He didn’t like the fact
that the U.S would
initiate such a devastating weapon.. On April 12, 1945
Truman was told that
Roosevelt had died, shortly after he found out about
the bomb. He never said if
it was right or wrong. After talking to Winston
Churchill Prime Minister of
England he made the decision after Churchill
said if it would help end the war
then go for it. On August 6th 1945 at 8:09
a.m. the first of 2 Atomic Bombs was
dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb
devastated many millions of Square miles.
Killed and burned many people.
Hiroaki Ichikawa was 5 years old at the time and
he said that People were so
badly burnt that skin was hanging right off their
bones. After many children
had been quoted and in which I just read, the crew of
the bomber plane said
that he expressed awe and shock. The flash blinded some of
the men after the
bomb exploded. Crewman Carry could only say "Holy Moses what
a mess". "My
god" Said another crewman. " What have we done". " This
war is over," shouted
one man. Yet one crewman could only say "Good God
could anyone live through
that down there. As the plane made its long trip back
to its base one crewman
wrote to his son and this is basically what he said.
This isn’t meant to
read until your older but now one single plane can destroy
and devastate a
whole city. A journalist said that Truman never actually said
yes to drop the
bomb. He described it as a little boy on a toboggan. He never
was really
given a chance to say yes. But he never uttered the words no don’t
do it.
Basically what he was trying to say was that Roosevelt and the people
that
knew about it before Truman were already making the decision. Many people
ask
if Japan was properly warned. People say that if Japan knew that the
U.S
would drop such a devastating bomb they would have surrendered right then
and
there. But they say if the U.S had to drop the bomb they should have done
it in
a less populated area that would have just shown the enormous power of
the bomb.
I think that the bomb was the right thing to do. Maybe it
shouldn’t have been
dropped on such a populated area but you can’t
second-guess what they did.
They had to get this war over. This isn’t the
first war that civilians have
been killed in war. A lot of people who say
that the bomb was the wrong thing to
do doesn’t think of what the Japanese
did to the U.S. They killed and sunk
many ships in their air raid in Pearl
Harbor. I think that the Japanese deserved
some warning. After all the
Japanese did give warning of the Pearl Harbor
attack. It was probably the
right thing to do at the time. After the bomb was
dropped and all the
devastation was seen I think that everyone that was a part
of building or the
decision to make the bomb felt extremely bad. I don’t think
anyone realized
the true devastation of this
bomb.