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Dropping The Atomic Bomb

By 1945, the war in Europe had been going on for almost six years. It ended on May 8, 1945, which is celebrated as V-E Day or Victory in Europe Day. It had been the most costly war in history, covering four continents, taking millions of lives, and costing billions of dollars. With the war in Europe over, all of the focus was turned to the Pacific. On August 6, 1945 the first of two atomic bombs was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan followed three days later with Fat Man being dropped on Nagasaki. The war was over on August 15, 1945, and Victory over Japan Day was celebrated. The dropping of the atomic bomb remains the controversial decision of the war to this day with he main question is being was it really necessary to drop the atomic bombs? To understand the reasoning behind the dropping, first we must go back to the origins of the making of the bomb at the Manhattan Project.
The Manhattan Project was authorized by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939 with backing from scientist Albert Einstein. He signed for the funding of up to $2 billion to research the technology to make the bomb. By this time, scientists on the Allied side had already feared that Nazi Germany had been investigating into such weapons of its own. Einstein expressed his concern with the German Nuclear Weapons Program in his letter when he mentioned that "Since the outbreak of the war, interest in uranium has intensified in Germany. I have now learned that research there is carried out in great secrecy and that it has been extended to another of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, the Institute of Physics."# This is very important statement that has been made. The Germans have already begun to look into the possibility of obtaining nuclear power and making nuclear weapons for military use. If they had unlocked the key to creating such a weapon, they very well would have won the war. The United States beginning the Manhattan Project was imperative to the overall war effort.
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