Reading Quiz 1. What problems did Henry Stimson believe might come after using the bomb? 2. What was the goal of the Interim Committee? 3. Give two options Truman had about the bomb. 4. What was the decision of the Interim Committee? 5. What justification did Truman give for choosing Option 1? 6. Where was the bomb tested? 7. Give one interpretation of the bombing of Japan.

To Bomb or Not to Bomb???

The Manhattan Project Code name for the American program to build an atomic bomb Albert Einstein encouraged President Roosevelt to look into using uranium to build bombs Worried that Nazis were working on their own bomb First bomb detonated: New Mexico, July 1945

BOMBS AWAY!!!!!!! U.S. threatened Japan with destruction if they did not surrender August 6, 1945: B29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima 76,000 buildings (63% of the city) destroyed 80, ,000 instant deaths

BOOM!!!

Quoted in Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War “The center of the city was still burning bright red, like live charcoal. Roof tiles were popping. We passed numerous war dead who had been carbonized… We found five or six half-burned roofless streetcars. Inside were piles of corpses smoldering under white smoke… A young mother lay face down, her baby tucked under her breast. They looked more like pink wax dolls than human beings.”

As if it couldn’t get worse…. Three days later Soviet Union declared war on Japan U.S. drop another bomb (Fat Man) on Nagasaki the same day Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945 (V-J Day)

For those who did survive… The Law: The Atomic Bomb Survivors Relief Law defines hibakusha as people: Who were within a few kilometers of the hypocenters of the bombs,hypocenters Who were within 2 km of the hypocenters within two weeks of the bombings, Who were exposed to radiation from fallout, andfallout Babies carried by pregnant women in any of these categories.