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The atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary, there were more ways to end the war. My three reasons are many survivors from the bombing faced serious death from starvation and radiation exposure. There were much more ways besides using atomic weapons to settle the dispute. Lastly, the bombing had both positive and negative effects to the people and the world. On December 1941, Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States enter World War II with Germany, Italy, and Japan and the allies France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. In 1942, J. Robert Oppenhimer is a Scientist who was in charge of the US Manhattan Project which was to secretly build and test an atomic bomb. Originally, the project began to bomb Nazi Germany. The United States had been working on creating …show more content…

Germany had already been defeated. The war against Japan in the Pacific continued. President Harry S. Truman, was told by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in Americans hurt or injured in war, ordered that the new weapon was going to be used bringing the war to a end. On August 6, 1945, Enola Gay the B-29 aircraft dropped a five-ton bomb over Japan's city of Hiroshima. The Enola Gay was named after the mother of Tibbets. He decided on the name in honor of his mother who had always assured him that he would survive the war as a pilot. Tibbets had the name painted on the aircraft the day before the bombing mission.“On august 6, 1945 at 5:29:45, everything happened at once. But it was too fast for the watchers to distinguish: no human eye can separate millionths of a second; no human brain can record such a fraction at one time. As we got further away, I could see the city then, not just the mushroom, coming up. I could see the city, and it was being covered with this low, bubbling mass. It looked like bubbling molasses, let's say, spreading out and

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