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Atomic Bomb

The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States and ended in the annihilation of the cities and people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ended World War II. The question is, was this the right decision made by the United States? It ended the war but according to many was highly immoral. Looking at the numbers of both bombings, it is easy to tell why the morality is questioned. An area of approximately 4.7 square miles was destroyed in Hiroshima. Japanese officials determined that 76% of Hiroshima's buildings were destroyed or damaged. More than 70,000 people, of whom only 20,000 were Japanese ...

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wasn�t an easy decision; we should have targeted solely militarized areas. The atomic bomb itself was not completely moral, but the immorality of it mostly laid in the way it was used. It not only killed civilians but left radiation that caused birth defects and cancer for people around the world. It poisoned the land and instantly killed hundreds of thousands of people but also ended a war that would have caused even more deaths if it wasn�t stopped. I believe the atomic bomb would�ve had the same effect of ending the war but wouldn�t have killed so many people if we dropped it on a less populated ...

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Added: 5/6/2015 11:32:56 PM
Submitted By: lhsryan
Category: American History
Type: Free Paper
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