Was the dropping of atomic bombs justified

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Was the dropping of atomic bombs justified?
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Why did the US decide to drop the bomb?

• Pacific war
• Millions invested in development
• Growing threat from USSR
• Vengeance for torture suicide attacks

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What happened when the bomb was dropped?

• 6 August 1945 Enola Gay dropped atomic bomb on
  Hiroshima
• 70,000 immediate deaths
• 200,000 deaths radiation and fall out
• 9 August, Nagasaki 40,000 deaths
• 14 August Japan surrenders
• www.peace-museum.org/welcome.htm

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What did the bombs look like?
Little Boy Uranium, Hiroshima
Fat Man, Plutonium, Nagasaki
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How powerful were they?

• Fat Boy blast equivalent to 20,000 tons of
  explosives detonated at once
• Strong winds from blast destroyed all buildings
  within a 1.5 mile radius
• Heat generated incinerated everything in its path

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What was the impact?
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? Your task

• Read Source 1 (an eye-witness account) and list
  the different effects the bomb had on people and
  things in the city of Hiroshima.

Eye-witness account
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Which of these images tells us more about the
effects of the atomic bomb?
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Drawing by Sawami Katagiri
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Photograph taken days after the Hiroshima bomb
was dropped in August 1945