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The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki     The showtime atomic joker was dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945.The world would never be the same. This paper testament discuss thesignificance of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and howthey led to the success of the confederate forces. It will also discuss how theUnited States developed the atomic bomb, the last to drop the bomb, theweakening of Japan, the actual bombing an destruction of both cities, the cease of Japan and the impact the atomic bomb would wealthy person in the future.     During earth war II, the United States was afraid that Germanywould develop the atomic bomb first. Germany had interpreted over Norway, whichwas a heavy water supply and Czechoslovakia, which was a uranium supply.Both of these, water and uranium, were needed to make the atomic bomb.Therefore, the United States initiated a top secret program called theManhattan Project. Even the Vice prexy didnt write out about this project.The Manhattan Project cost over 2 billion dollars. Yet, coitus nevervoted to fund this program (Hoare, 1987, 10-14). Roosevelt authorizedscientists to find out if an atomic bomb could be built. On December 2,1942, scientists working in a secret laboratory under the bleachers of afootball field in Chicago achieved the first man-made nuclear reaction. Anatomic bomb could without delay be developed. Many scientists and other skilledworkers participated in the making of the first atomic bomb. However, lone(prenominal)few knew what they were making. In 1944, after D-Day, the Alsos (a troop displace to find how cold the Germans had come in the building of the atomicbomb) radioed stick out that they had given up in their attempt to make it.Still, despite scientists pleas with the President to discontinue it, theU.S. maintained the work on their atomic bomb (Conrad, 1982, 12-16). InAlamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, the first a tomic bomb wasdetonated in the desert. The bomb was much more explosive than scientiststhought it would be. The 100 foot prevail which housed the bomb was totallydestroyed by the blast. (" homo War II", 1997, 1-2). After the bombexploded, Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, said,"Behold. I have become death, uprooter of worlds." (Hoare, 1987, 18)     When Harry Trum... ...p    The United States, as well as the Allied forces, salvage many livesby dropping the atomic bomb. The dropping of the atomic bomb, rase thoughit killed hundreds of thousands Japanese people, saved more Americans andother Allied soldiers that would have been killed in battle.     The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki may not have been excitingbattles, but they may have been the most important weapons used in WorldWar II. If Japan had not surrendered, more atomic bombs may have beendropped and it would be very signifi cant that the United States had madethem. Even though only two were dropped, they killed many Japanese, makingthe government fearful that more would be dropped if they did not surrender(Conrad, 1982, 20-22).     When looking back upon the six years of World War II, the threedays surrounding the dropping of the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadfar greater impact than all of the battles preceding them. The destructionthey wrought far surpassed anything ever seen before. As cited in thispaper, the atomic bombs, Fat Man and microscopical Boy, were pivotal to thesuccess of the Allied forces.