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Title: Manhattan project


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Manhattan project
  • By Carolina Gomez

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Role in WW2
  • The Manhattan Project most destructive weapon in
    the history of combat. It helped bring an end to
    the most destructive conflict. Devolved by the
    United States. It was the first atomic bomb after
    the 1930s when the Nazi Germany started planning
    their own nuclear weapon scientists became scared
    and created Manhattan Project. The big and most
    important reason for using it was simply the US
    wanted to end the war and make Japan surrender.

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The Impact
  • Before it was dropped the US tested it. They
    dropped it in Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
    Killing thousands of people not soldiers but
    civilians. there is only a estimate of about
    million of deaths. It was a success of the bomb.
    This also caused Soviet Union to make their own
    atomic bomb. This bomb could actually destroy
    entire cities and civilizations. Now more
    countries have done the same. After the bomb in
    Japan no one has ever used this weapon against
    another country. The Manhattan Project is a very
    controversial some believe that it was
    unnecessary for them while others think it was
    the right thing to do.

The blast,.034 seconds after detonation
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Portrayed
  • Negative-As for the Japanese people it was a
    terrible and a huge suffering movement. Many
    where killed immediately while others like Dr.
    Michihiko Hachiya lived through that day. There's
    how he remember that day, Suddenly, a strong
    flash of light startled me - and then another. So
    well does one recall little things that I
    remember vividly how a stone lantern in the
    garden became brilliantly lit and I debated
    whether this light was caused by a magnesium
    flare or sparks from a passing trolley. All over
    the right side of my body I was cut and bleeding.
    A large splinter was protruding from a mangled
    wound in my thigh, and something warm trickled
    into my mouth. My check was torn, I discovered as
    I felt it gingerly, with the lower lip laid wide
    open. Embedded in my neck was a sizable fragment
    of glass which I matter-of-factly dislodged, and
    with the detachment of one stunned and shocked I
    studied it and my blood-stained hand. Where was
    my wife?
  • Suddenly thoroughly alarmed, I began to yell for
    her 'Yaeko-san! Yaeko-san! Where are you?' Blood
    began to spurt. Had my carotid artery been cut?
    Would I bleed to death? Frightened and
    irrational, I called out again 'It's a
    five-hundred-ton bomb! Yaeko-san, where are you?
    A five- hundred-ton bomb has fallen!'
  • Yaeko-san, pale and frightened, her clothes torn
    and blood stained, emerged from the ruins of our
    house holding her elbow. Seeing her, I was
    reassured. My own panic assuaged, I tried to
    reassure her.

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Portrayed
  • Positive-As for the US the saw it as a great
    victory. Saving thousands of American servicemen
    lives. It was a great combination of science,
    government, academia, military, and industry to
    create it. There a quote of what a chemist
    thought of it, At Los Alamos during World War II
    there was no moral issue with respect to working
    on the atomic bomb. Everyone was agreed on the
    necessity of stopping Hitler and the Japanese
    from destroying the free world. It was not an
    academic question our friends and relatives
    were being killed and we, ourselves, were
    desperately afraid. -Joseph O. Hirschfelder

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Resources
  • Pictures-
  • http//bastardlogic.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/na
    gasaki-bomb.jpg
  • http//www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/jbrudvig/Technolog
    y20Projects/webquests/student20work/ManhattanPro
    ject_files/image002.jpg
  • http//www.hiroshima-remembered.com/photos/hiroshi
    ma/images/H17.jpg
  • http//www.vesmirweb.net/galerie/Sci-fi/abomb.jpg
  • http//www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/12/31/hiroshim
    a_wideweb__430x323.jpg
  • http//www.utc.edu/Research/AsiaProgram/teaching/i
    mages/s4p6.png
  • http//pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/imagesMac-PC/ForP
    EACE/HiroshimaHosp.jpg
  • http//en.wikivisual.com/images/6/69/Warsaw_siege3
    .jpg
  • http//www.espionageinfo.com/images/eeis_02_img066
    1.jpg
  • http//www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/images/Speci
    alTopics1Large.gif

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Resources
  • www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
  • http//library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/timeline
    /manhattan.html

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Pictures
Some of the scientist that created Manhattan
Project
Location of the Manhattan Project
Nagasaki after the bombing
Hiroshima after the bombing
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