FREE ESSAY ON ATOMIC BOMB

ATOMIC BOMB

Now imagine yourself for a while being in one of the following Japanese cities, Hiroshima
or Nagasaki. You are having a normal day like always when suddenly you look up at the sky
and see an airplane drop millions of papers warning you to get out of your city. The
paper fliers tell you to leave your city because you are about to be bombed by a single
bomb capable of destroying the entire city. You think it a joke so you do nothing as
everyone else does. Three days pass and you are still thinking about what the paper said.
Suddenly you hear the expected plane, your heart starts pumping faster, then you see the
plane deploy a large object from the sky, you start thinking about what the paper said
but now its too late. You see the object hit the ground. There is a large flash, people
are running and screaming down the street. Then you realize it really was a bomb. This
event took place in World War II when the United States dropped the atomic bomb in Japan.
I am going to be speculating about speculation about the cause and effect of the atomic
bomb. 
In 1939, the German born scientist Albert Einstein had informed President Roosevelt about
the possibility of creating a powerful bomb. It would produce an extremely powerful
explosion by splitting the atom. Einstein and other scientist feared that Germany might
develop such a bomb first. In 1942, the United States set up a secret project called the
Manhattan Project, to develop the first atomic bomb. The first test explosion of an
atomic bomb occurred in the New Mexico Desert in July 1945.
Roosevelt died in April 1945, and Vice President Harry S. Truman became President of the
United States. Truman met with the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Joseph
Stalin the Russian dictator in Potsdam, Germany, in July 1945.
At the Potsdam Conference, a conference between the Allied forces to discuss war options,
Truman learned of the successful test explosion of the atomic bomb and informed the other
Allied leaders, that the atomic bomb was complete and ready. The United States, Britain,
and China then issued a statement threatening to destroy Japan unless it surrendered
unconditionally. In spite of the warning, Japan kept on fighting. Japan also did more
than continue fighting. Japan knowing that an Allied invasion was inevitable began to
train its civilians to defend the Japanese homeland. Civilians learned how to attack and
kill Allied soldiers using sharpened bamboo sticks. Not only did Japan continue fighting
but it began to train its civilians to fight to the death using sharpened bamboo sticks
to defend its homeland. 
On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 Bomber called the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic
bomb used on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. After Japanese leaders failed to respond to
the bombing, the United States dropped a larger bomb on Nagasaki on August 9. World War
II ended shortly after United States Warplanes dropped atomic bombs on Japanese cities.
Some Japanese military leaders committed suicide. The bombs killed between 120,000 and
140,000 people, largely destroyed both cities, and helped end the war. 
These were some of the causes of World War II. One of the causes of World War II that
made the United States join the war was the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Another thing that
started World War II was Hitler prosecuting the Jews. It is widely believed that he use
of the atomic bomb on Japan was to stop their hunger for power and to save millions of
soldiers' lives from being killed in the possible invasion of Japan.
These were the effects of using the atomic bomb. Thousands of people killed and injured
in the two Japanese cities. American POW's in those cities were also killed. Massive
destruction in the two Japanese cities after the bomb went off. After the second bomb,
there was almost immediate surrender by Japan. Thousands, maybe millions, of allied
soldiers saved by not having to invade Japan. The Russians were sent a clear message that
we were not afraid to use this new weapon to stop aggression. This also started the
beginning of the atomic age. And the beginning of the arms build-up in the cold war. 
Here are some of the speculations about cause and effect of the usage of the atomic bomb.
Due to the atomic bombs hastening the end of World War II, the lives countless Japanese
soldiers and civilians were spared. The thousands of Allies soldiers expected to die in
the invasion and victory over Japan would have died. The two Japanese cities would not
have been destroyed, left with radiation, and causing cancer clusters if we did not drop
the bomb. Japan did not gain an opportunity to rebuild its arsenal and continue war
production goods. Japan was essentially stopped from its mission of world conquest. The
Axis powers would have made their own atomic bomb and used it. Japan would have won the
war, if they would have destroyed the four American airplane carriers in Pearl Harbor. By
the American forces using the atomic bomb Japan was forced to surrender to the American
forces and under American terms. By using the atomic bomb, American forces were able to
demonstrate to their potential foe, Russia, their destructive power and military
capability. 
All of this happened in World War II when we dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. I hope
that I have proven that the atomic bomb was part of the turning point in history and is
what started the cold war. That if we had not used the atomic bomb we would have lost
millions of lives. The creation and usage of the atomic bomb created a new type of
warfare and officially started the Cold War. I have discovered that the atomic bomb was a
mistake and that we should not have used it. Japan was already being destroyed with other
kind of bombs that were destroying their towns; it was only a matter of time before they
would have had to surrender. 
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