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=The Manhattan Project=

Joe Mazarella
The date was August 6, 1945. It was a calm day in Hiroshima, Japan. When suddenly...   

In a small amount of time, 140,000 lives were destroyed. The United States, Great Britain, and Canada dropped an atomic bomb code-named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan under the order of Harry S Truman.

Just two days later, yet another bomb was dropped on Japan. This time in Nagasaki. The bomb "Fat Man" killed 80,000 innocent people. The reason for these disastrous actions of the U.S. was to force Japan to surrender World War II. However, many events occurred to lead up to these drastic actions.    A replica of the atomic bomb, "Fat Man" The giant mushroom cloud after the bombing of Nagasaki. 

=  = =The History =  The project to build the first atomic bomb began in 1939 by the United States Corps of Engineers. Eventually, it took over 130,00 workers to complete the project, costing over $2 billion. The entire operation was kept secret; even from Truman, the Vice President at that time. It was not until Franklin Roosevelt's death in 1945 that he was informed of the project. <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 15, 15);"> <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 15, 15);"><span style="font-size: 70%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 46, 46);"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(254, 27, 27);">Harry S Truman, president in 1945. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 15, 15); text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: 70%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 46, 46);"> One of the main production sites was in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Research for the bomb took place in over 30 locations all across the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom. J. Robert Oppenheimer was known as the scientific director of the operation. He was a physics professor at The University of California in Berkley. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 15, 15); text-align: center; font-size: 70%;">J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)

<span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 10, 10);"> =<span style="color: rgb(255, 5, 5);">Why Make an Atomic Bomb? = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 15, 15);"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 31, 31);">At that time, The Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) were causing chaos in Europe. Before the U.S. officially entered the war, they began testing with nuclear power in fear that Axis Powers were attempting the same thing. After December 7, 1941, known as "Pearl Harbor" was the day that a Japanese fleet launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Naval base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The following day, the U.S. entered the war in Europe. On April May 7, 1945 Europe surrendered. The only problem left were the Japanese. The only way to get them to surrender was to threaten their country. After the Allies created the Treaty "Potsdam Declaration," Japan did not accept. Following this, the United States threatened the Japanese. Still not accepting the terms, on August 6, 1945, the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Still not agreeing to the terms, the U.S. dropped yet another bomb, this time on Hiroshima, Japan. Following this attack, Japan decided to agree with the Potsdam Declaration and surrender officially on August 15, 1945.

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