Monday 29 April 2013

American Nuclear Weapon

                                                      Americans bombing Japan


         The image above shows the explosion of the nuclear bomb. The one on the left is the bombing at  Hiroshima, and Nagasaki on the right. The making of the bomb created jobs for 75,000 people. This project had to be made within 6 months because the Russians were also trying to create the same bomb, this project was called "The Manhattan Project". The Americans made nuclear bombs to scare the Japanese into surrendering. The Americans were so angry at the Japanese, because they wouldn't surrender even after losing their military camps. The Americans were also angry because the Japanese attacked on their military base, Pearl Harbor  while they were neutral during world war 2. This new invention is what helped the allies win the second world war. The bomb exploded and heat shocks/ wave were created and also the bomb shone brighter, and it was bigger than expected. This nuclear bomb was not tested and scientist wanted to test it before using it for war, but the American government disagreed and used the bomb without testing because of the competition with Russia. I think that the Americans were fair enough when they dropped the bomb because the Japanese wouldn't stubbornly surrender, so they brought this to themselves, although many innocent lives were loss. The Japanese could have prevented this from happening.

6 comments:

  1. The Americans didn't make the atomic bombs to scare the Japanese. Why else may the Americans have been interested in having nuclear weapons?

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    1. I believe that they might have made the nuclear bombs to demonstrate more power.

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    2. Excellent, Mel. Some historians believe that the US dropped the bomb to create fear in the leaders of the Soviet Union.

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  2. I disagree with you that the Americans were being fair. They killed families, just innocent civilians caught in the middle of a war. All those not killed were stuck with the after affects. How is that fair? Sure, the Japanese wouldn't surrender but is there really a need to kill hundreds of thousands of people? Maybe they did bring this on themselves, but there were definitely other ways the Americans could've dealt with it. I think the Americans just wanted to demonstrate the power they held, and didn't think about what would happen to people after. If anyone even threatened to do this to the United States, all hell would break loose, so I'm not sure why they thought this was fair to do to other people.

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    1. I agree with Sami. The Americans dropped the bomb when they were so devastated and upset about how the Japanese were cruel to them with attacking Pearl Harbour. There is no way Americans should have felt just about bombing Japan, because then the Japanese would've felt the same way the Americans did.

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  3. What if the atomic bomb wasn't dropped, maybe the Japanese wouldn't have surrendered.

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