The U.S. rounded the world's best physicist, chemist, and engineers and had them work on the Manhattan Project. $2 billion of taxpayer money was what the project cost which roughly equivalent to $27 billion now days. Destruction is not the only the Manhattan Project but the table since nuclear medicine, stem cell research, and better understanding of the atom were advances that happened because of it. When Japan refused to surrender, the U.S. had a good opportunity to put the bomb test. Of the 4 bombs made, 1 of them was tested in New Mexico to make sure the bomb was stable and worked and then 2 of them were tested to see the effects the on an urbanized area. Since we were at war with the Japanese and Americans did not want Allied troops to die for no reason Truman and his office did not have to worry about the public being mad when he ultimately deciding to bomb Japan twice. Instead American’s were happy that the war was ended early by the atomic bomb instead of having the millions of predicted casualties happen with the invasion of the Japan that was planned. There were surveys done after the bombing to see were the public stood on the bombing and the results were a staggering 85% approval, 10% disapproval, and 5% had no opinion. Thus, President Truman felt he had no reason to not finish what President Roosevelt started and saw nothing wrong in the using of atomic bombs on …show more content…
“Atomic Bombs Destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, Salem Press, 2017. Ers, catalog.stisd.net:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ers&AN=89313789&site=eds-live. Accessed 18 Apr. 2017. Accession Number: 89313789; Author: Fenton, David G.; Subject Term: ATOMIC bomb -- History; Geographic Subject: HIROSHIMA-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945; Geographic Subject: NAGASAKI-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945; Number of Pages: 4p.; Document Type: Article; Publication Type: Encyclopedia; Full Text Word Count: 2327
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