The Atomic Bomb

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Much has changed in the art of war since the great catapults and glorious legions of ancient Rome and Greece; the armour clad knight of the middle ages and the samurai of the far East. The methods of war have changed, as have tactics, technology, weapons, and most of all politics. Spears and swords have been replaced with fully automatic machine guns; heavy cavalry with tanks, and chariots with supersonic jet fighters and bombers. Yet the one invention, the destructive power of which is too great to compare with anything in the past for it makes all other weapons seem completely insignificant, came about during World War 2; it was the atomic bomb. The extraordinary destructive power of the bomb was demonstrated twice, in Hiroshima and in Nagasaki, which left the world at awe. The atomic bomb was the ultimate weapon, if in the right hands to protect peace, and if in the wrong, to lead to total annihilation. The history and politics of the 20th Century in a large part evolve around the atomic bomb, its consequences and the power struggle to be The Superpower on earth. The question stands: was the atomic bomb really necessary to end the Second World War and what are the consequences of such destructive force being in the hands of multiple countries?
On December 7th, 1941 a surprise bombing of Pearl Harbour by the Japanese resulted in America entering the war. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 started the $2,000,000,000 Manhattan Project which involved many refugee scientists from fascist Germany including Albert Einstein and J.R. Oppenheimer. The goal of the project led by General Leslie Graves was to create an atomic weapon that the U.S. could use in World War 2. Thefirst successful test was preformed on July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The force of the explosion surpassed all of the scientist's expectations, which then lead to the creation of thefirst atomic bomb to be used in combat. President Truman once said, "Wi…