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B-25s crowd deck of USS Hornet on way to Japan
•Island Hopping had been successful, and the US was now close enough to bomb Japan.
B-29 bombers
firebombed (napalm)
cities
Starts June ‘44
Still refused to
surrender
Tokyo: 83,000 people
incinerated
Nazis might use atomic energy to build new
bombs
Albert Einstein to FDR
1939
Nuclear Fission
FDR’s top secret operation to develop
an A-bomb 1st Los
Alamos, New
Mexico
Consisted of a team
of top scientists from all over the
worldThey were led by
Robert J. Oppenheimer
July 16, ‘45: Successful test of A-bomb in NM
July 16, ‘45
Truman
Atlee
Stalin?
If you (Japan)
don’t surrender you face, prompt &
utter destruction
Who am I?
Why drop the Bomb on Japan?
3 main reasons
1) Destroy Japan’s ability to make war
2) End the War quickly
3) The A-bomb saved American lives
Where? Hiroshima
When? Aug. 6, 1945 (8:15
AM)
What? The Enola Gay
dropped Little Boy
Detonated 1,900 feet above Hiroshima
2/3 of the city is destroyed
DAMAGE REPORT Some 70,000 to
80,000 people are killed immediately; about
145,000 persons will die from the bombing by the
end of 1945.
8:15 AM
Where? Nagasaki
When? Aug. 9, 1945
(11:02 AM)
What? Fat Man
was dropped
Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki
Detonated 500 meters above Nagasaki
DAMAGE REPORT40,000 - 60,000 dead
Leveled Area: 6.7 million square meters
Damaged Houses: 18,409
I cannot bear to see my innocent people
suffer any longer
Emperor Hirohito
Aug. 15, 1945: Emperor Hirohito surrenders
Japan signed surrender aboard the USS Missouri
Sept. 2
?
The world is changed forever!
What other options do you think
Truman had to end the war with Japan?
Bombing was
immoralFailed to account for
arms race & Cold War
Is it ever morally
justifiable to use a nuclear
weapon?
Should such technology have actually been
created? Used? What future ramifications will
result from Truman’s decision? Are you afraid
of nuclear war?