Part one of term paper
On August 6, 1945 the United States exploded an atomic bomb over Hiroshima and revealed to the world in one blinding flash the start of the atomic age. The decision to use the atomic bomb was made by President Truman. There was never any doubt of that and despite the rising tide of criticism, Mr. Truman took full responsibility for his actio ...

Part two of term paper
... the Germans were already carrying on experiments in this field. The program initiated October of that year with a very modest appropriation and later expanded into the two-billion-dollar Manhattan Project and had only one purpose- to harness the energy of the atom in a chain reaction to produce a bomb that could be carried by aircraft if possible, and to produce it before the Germans could. [2] Realization that the bomb would probably be ready for testing in the summer of 1945 led to concrete pla ...