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Completion of the
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| Home | After the completion of the
atomic bomb, Truman had a hard time deciding whether or not to use it on
the Japanese to make them surrender. He had little time to decide
whether to use the bombs on Japan because only Leahy, an admiral in the
war, Byrnes, Secretary of State at the time of the war, and Groves, a
general in the war, told him about the a-bomb and gave him some idea of the destructive capability they
had. Shortly after he became
president, some of the bombs were ready to be used.
Because of this, he had tests issued to ensure that the U.S.
didn’t underestimate its power and use it wrongly. These tests took
place in desert areas, like Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Mushroom cloud from a-bomb
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"We
must not again underestimate the Japanese."
Explanation of how the a-bomb works |
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| Introduction | |||||
| America's Place in the War | |||||
| The Manhattan Project | |||||
| Progress in the War | |||||
| Completion of the A-Bomb | |||||
| Dropping of the A-Bomb | |||||
| Hiroshima | |||||
| Nagasaki | |||||
| After the Bomb | |||||
| Impact of the A-Bomb | |||||
| Analysis | |||||
| Timeline | |||||
| Process Paper | |||||
