Objectives
 Content: Name the effects of World War II.
 Learning: Choose and defend your position on
whether the United States should have dropped
the atomic bomb to end the war with Japan.
Albert Einstein
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Manhattan Project
 Code name for the research and
development of the atomic bomb
 J. Robert Oppenheimer
 Physicist
 Director of Los Alamos research
laboratory that developed first atomic
bombs
Trinity Test
Site
Harry Truman’s Decision:
Bombing of Hiroshima
 August 6, 1945
 “Little Boy” dropped by the Enola Gay
 Took the lives of 70,000 people that day and
another 70,000 from radiation exposure
within 5 years
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Bombing of Nagasaki
 August 9, 1945
 “Fat Man”
 Took the lives of about 40,000 that day
and up to 40,000 within a year
Nagasaki
Before
&
After
Effects of the Bombings on the People
 Immediate
Death (100,000+, exact number unknown)
 Death from fires, falling debris
 Burns
 Keloids (tumor-like growth of scar tissue)
 Radiation exposure:
 Some became sick several days later because they
had no white blood cells and their bone marrow
deteriorated
 Others developed high fevers, hair loss,
inflammation of gums and mouth
 Development of cancer(s) over time
“A year after the bombing, Hiroshimans had begun
repossessing the plots of rubble where their houses
had once stood. Many had built crude wooden
huts, having scavenged fallen tiles from ruins to
make their roofs. There was no electricity to light
their shacks, and at dusk each evening, lonely,
confused, and disillusioned, they gathered in an
open area near the Yokogawa railroad station to
deal in the black markets and console each other.”
-John Hersey’s Hiroshima
“In Hiroshima, the early postwar years were, besides,
a time, especially painful for poor people… of
disorder, hunger, greed, thievery, black markets.
Non-hibakusha [survivors of the bomb] employers
developed a prejudice against the survivors as word
got around that they were prone to all sorts of
ailments… most of them seemed to suffer… from the
mysterious but real malaise that came to be known
as one kind of lasting A-bomb sickness: a nagging
weakness and weariness, dizziness now and then,
digestive troubles…”
- John Hersey’s Hiroshima