Truman War Effects

A war that has been going on for years can end, but to do so President Truman has to make a decision that could completely destroy a country and leave long term effects on it. WWII ended and soon after President Truman was told about the Manhattan project, which was a secret project to make the first nuclear bombs. He found out that the Manhattan scientists constructed two bombs that could end the war between the United States and Japan, on July 25, President Truman approved for the dropping of the bombs on Japan to end the war. Now WWII would be effected by Fat Boy and Little Man, the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, due to the race to create an atomic bomb, the detonation of the bombs, and the final outcome.
The Manhattan Project, was a secret project of the constructing of the atomic bombs used during WWII. It took 27 months to complete what other nations and the united states thought was impossible. A multitude of ethnical groups from around the world helped make the bomb. The three main scientist behind the Manhattan project were J. Robert Oppenhiemer, also known as the “father of the atomic bomb”. J. Ernest Wilkins JR., who was an African

American mathematician and physicist. The last main scientist was a women, Elizabeth Riddle Graves, she was a physicist. The nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, was created when scientists took an atom of uranium-238 and turned it into plutonium-239, by a controlled nuclear power in a chain reaction. The nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki, was made out of the uranium-238 without being turned into plutonium-239. On July 16, 1945, at 5:30am in the morning the first successful atomic bomb testing was done in Alamogordo, New Mexico. This was important because the scientists that made the bombs discovered how to harness nuclear power.
The nuclear bombs, Fat Boy and Little man, were dropped on Japan in 1945.The first bomb Little Boy was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Hiroshima was chosen because it was one of the only Japanese cities still intact. The bomb was devastating killing 66,000 people and injuring 69,000 more. In the novel Godzilla Returns states the “When the bomb was detonated, anyone within three and a half miles was immediately killed and disintegrated, anyone within eight miles felt power from the blast waves, and anyone farther than eight miles that were looking at the light had there corneas melted and were permanently blind” (cerasini). Three days later on August 9, 1945 the United States dropped another bomb named Fat Boy on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.The effects of this bomb were not as devastating, but still destroying the city and killing 39,000 people and injuring 25,000 more.After the detonation of both bombs, both of the Japanese cities were destroyed, and killed and injured a total of 199,000 people.
The outcome of the two bombs are similar because both cities were completely destroyed and both suffered and still suffer from radiation.

The radiation from the bombs affected people by the destruction of stomach and intestinal fluids, destruction of bone marrow, and anemia killing most of the victims within 30 days. Even still today people are dying from the radiation of the bombs, so due to radiation Hiroshima and Nagasaki have become sights of the biggest mass murder events in history. In modern times the radiation effects pregnant women and gives some babies birth defects. How long the radiation will last and effect Japan is unknown, it could be a 100 years or even 100,000 years. Because this was the first event like this in history no one knows how long the effects will last on

Japan.
The creation and detonation of the two nuclear bombs dropped during WWII., decimated the Empire of Japan. From this wartime experience, governments learned that nuclear warfare needed to be limited. No other nuclear bombs have never been launched at any another country. In fact, countries are now trying to dismantle all nuclear weapons throughout the world. The devastation of Japan was violent and brutal, but the war needed to be ended. However, a lesson was learned. That lesson being that a worldwide nuclear war would end humanity.