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=Atomic Bomb By :Taylor=

The atomic bomb played a very important role in World War Two when a plane dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on August 6 and 9, 1945, instantly destroying the cities. The bomb helped end the war. The atomic bomb was known for its mass destruction and could kill people instantly because of the blast and radiation.

The atomic bomb is exploded by the splitting of atoms, resulting in a tremendous blast of heat and force. The bomb not only kills people from the blast, but also from the radiation, resulting in deformation and cancer. When the two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki they killed about 120,000 people instantly and thousands more after, due to radiation poisoning. The atomic bomb is extremely powerful.

There is more then one inventor who took part in the invention of the atomic bomb, but the one who started the idea of the invention was Albert Einstein. He had the idea along with other scientists that it would be good to use the atomic bomb on Hitler and his army because they were working on purifying the uranium-235 (found in atomic bombs). Einstein and many more scientists wrote President Franklin D. Roosevelt to make sure that, that didn't happen. It was soon thereafter that the government started a secret project known as the Manhattan Project.

Since 1942 Allied scientists have been working on a project to make an atomic bomb, known as the Manhattan Project. In order for them to make the bomb the right materials would be needed to make it work properly, for example uranium. The only problem was that the scientists couldn't find it in the US. Their problem was fixed in 1942 when they were able to find a mining company in Canada that agreed to sell them uranium metal. They also found some uranium in a New York warehouse. Because of the discovery, the Allied scientists were able to create an atomic bomb that was successful.
 * __Extra Focus: Manhattan Project__**[[image:explostion.jpg align="right"]]

Early in the morning of July 16, 1945, the atomic bomb was first tested at White Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The bomb was dropped at 5:29 AM. The testing was a success and everything went as planned. The explosion had such a big impact that it shattered windows 235 miles northwest, in Gallup, New Mexico. The massive explosion melted the New Mexico dessert sands into glass for 800 yards in all direction.

The atomic bomb was very important in our history today because the bomb helped win the war against the Japan in 1939-1945. Because of the Manhattan Project, we were able to drop two bombs on Japan. Since the Japanese didn't surrender President Truman gave the OK to have the B-29 bomber //Enola Gay// to be dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Again the Japanese leader still didn't surrender so we dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki, on August 8, 1945. Because of the second bomb we were able to win the war and have the Japanese surrender alas. The war was officially over on August 15, 1945.
 * __Importance of the Atomic Bomb__**

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