atomic bomb
...tsdam Conference Including: Churchill, Truman, and offered some favorable terms of surrender to Japan. Some felt that the Japanese were close to surrendering; even Emperor Hirohito wanted to surrender but didn’t have the authority because war was a political decision unfortunately Truman had little experience as he had only came President in April of 1945 President Truman’s knowledge of the development of the atomic bomb was far less than Roosevelt's. Albert Einstein asked President Roosevelt to start development a new atomic bomb as part of American self-defense in August of 1939. Enrico Ferni, Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner were apart of the Manhattan project. On December 1942 the reactor produced the first nuclear chain reaction. On July 16, 1945 after consultation with Jay Robert Oppenheimer, the atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico. There were apparent effects scientist should have possibly alerted officials of terrible consequences. Only 21 days after the original testing of the atomic bomb a 13 kiloton bomb was dropped on Hiroshima August 6. 70,000 to 100,000 people died on flat land. Only 3 days later on August ninth and twenty two-kiloton bombs were dropped on Hilly Nagasaki. 40,000 people were killed Temperatures on the ...