Atomic Bomb

The explosion killed 90,000 to 140,000 people. There would have been thousands of US casualties by fighting Japan with ground troops. miles of land and damaged outside areas severely. The US probably dropped the bomb because the Japanese would not have surrendered unless. Scientists working on the atomic bomb needed to separate uranium 235 from the common uranium 238. By 1945 the project had 40 labs and factories and employed 200,000 people, more than the automobile industry that year. ount of early research done in New York. The project spent $2 billion which is equivalent to $26 billion today. The scientists worked six days a week, 18 hours a day.

On August 6th, 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. Other reasons are the Japanese were abusive to US prisoners of War and to show the US technology was superior to that of the USSR. The atomic bomb was a very costly project and wouldn’t have gone well if millions was spent making a bomb and it was never used.

After much research I decided that it was better to bomb Nagasaki and Hiroshima than the US to loose many more of its soldiers.