Manhattan+Project

 Sarah and Julia ** The Manhattan Project    **  Summary: August 1939, Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein. In the letter, Einstein suggested a new type of bomb that could be built by the Germans. Roosevelt wanted to build the bomb before Germany did. He organized the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Scientists, such as Einstein and Enrico Fermi, worked to design a bomb that could store the raw materials and trigger a powerful chain reaction on demand. The Interim Committee decided whether or not to drop the bomb on Japan. The final decision belonged to President Truman. Truman had no difficulty making the decision. He considered the bomb to be used just as a military weapon and gave no hesitation that it should be used. Truman never regretted the decision. August 6, 1945 an American plane dropped a bomb on Hiroshima. The blast of immense heat annihilated the cities center and its resident in a second. Many buildings that survived the blast were destroyed by fires spread by powerful winds. About 80 thousand died and at least as many were injured by fire, radiation sickness, and the force of the explosion. Approximately, 90 % of the cities buildings were damaged or destroyed. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. __August 14, the Japanese government surrendered__. The next day Americans celebrated VJ Day. The formal surrender was signed September 2, 1945. The long and destructive war finally came to an end.

    "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than 2,000 times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam," which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare." -President Truman Mushroom cloud over Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) Nagasaki mushroom cloud (August 9, 1945)  <span style="color: rgb(124,0,173);"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(50,0,184);"><span style="color: rgb(87,5,143);"><span style="color: rgb(113,239,235);"><span style="color: rgb(78,2,110);">**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">  __Movies To Watch:__ Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) The Manhattan Project (1986) Day One (1989)  ** <span style="color: rgb(199,0,120); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(197,32,103); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(113,239,235);"><span style="color: rgb(218,22,175);"> <span style="color: rgb(218,22,175);">***Web Links*** http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/index.htm  http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/mp/chronology.shtml

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