The Atomic Bomb
The designing of the atomic bomb was not a direct cause of Japan it was Germany that lead the United States into building the bomb because of fear that they might create it first. The bombs had over 129,000 people employed secretly to have it built before the Germans did. The project was coded named The Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project used two different types of bombs each one had a different triggering mechanism and both used different types of radioactive elements. The two different types of elements were Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239. The names of the two types of bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Fat Man and Little Boy. Fat Man, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, was a bit more complex than the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. Fat Man used Plutonium 239, which was arrayed around high explosives. The high explosives were designed to create a precise symmetrical explosion to compress the plutonium creating critical density and causing a chain reaction. To better your understanding of these bombs you need to know how they work. Nuclear bombs under go a process known as fission. Fission is the splitting of a nucleus by a neutron. When a neutron is shot at the element's nucleus it causes it to split into two smaller pieces. If critical mass is obtained more neutrons will be released causing a chain reaction totally destroying the entire piece of element. Robert Oppenheimer was the head of Los Alamos laboratory in Mexico and he was one of the scientists who helped in the development of the two bombs dropped in World War II on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bombs dropped on Japan in my opinion saved countless thousands of lives because if we had not dropped that bomb a mainland invasion would have been in order and deaths of this were estimated to be way over a million lives. Fat Man and Little Boy killed about three hundred thousand people, a lot less than one million.

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