The Atomic Bomb The atomic bomb has been a major turning point in history. It started out when Roosevelt signed a document for a group of scientists to start creating the bomb. The scientists thought they could purify uranium 235 to be used as a form of nuclear warfare. The name of the top secret project was The Manhattan Project named after the Manhattan Engineer District of the US Army Corps of Engineers due to the …showed first 75 words of 269 total…

…showed last 75 words of 269 total…project and wouldn’t have gone well if millions was spent making a bomb and it was never used. Other reasons are the Japanese were abusive to US prisoners of War and to show the US technology was superior to that of the USSR. On August 6th, 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. The explosion killed 90,000 to 140,000 people. The bomb devastated 4 sq. miles of land and damaged outside areas severely.