The Atomic Bomb

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The Atomic Bomb
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The Manhattan Project

• Development of the atomic bomb
• Scientists from Europe, US, GB, Canada
• 1941
• Los Alamos, New Mexico

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Little Boy

• Uranium type
• Dropped August 6, 1945
• Hiroshima
• More destructive then Fat Man

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Fat Man

• Plutonium type
• Dropped August 9th, Nagasaki
• More powerful then Little Boy

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Damages

• Kills 95 of the people in a radius of 1KM
• 90 of the buildings are destroyed
• Majority of deaths are civilians

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The effects of the bombs on humans

• If you are not killed instantly
• - Gamma rays will destroy your cells
• - Burns will heal into tumors
• - 10-15 days after fever, loss of hair
• - 23-30 days loss of resistance to
  infections, blood disorder, gums bleed
• Natural protection starts men become sterile,
  women have miscarriages, menstruation stops
• Die of complications

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Repercusions
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Decision to drop the bomb

• Japan refuses ultimatum
• Prédict one more year of war
• Prevent a loss of 2.5- 5 million lives
• Japan had almost develop their own atomic bomb
• Put the USSR in 2nd place