Who suggested the atomic bomb and why?

Answer 1

The "why" was to make Japan surrender. Before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. Shortly after the U.S. Government began the serious undertaking known then only as "The Manhattan Project" that was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb. From 1939 to 1945, more than $2 billion was spent during the history of the Manhattan Project. The formulas for refining uranium and putting together a working atomic bomb were created and seen to their logical ends by some of the greatest minds of our time. Chief among the people who unleashed the power of the atom was J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the project from conception to completion. When first tested J. Robert Oppenheimer was quoted as saying "I am become Death," he said, "the destroyer of worlds." Ken Bainbridge, the test director, told Oppenheimer, "Now we're all sons of bitches." The first Atomic bomb "Little Boy" was dropped at Hiroshima August 6, 1945. The second Atom bomb "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 and missed its target by over a 1 1/2 miles, but still leveled half the city. Japan offered to surrender on August 10, 1945. It is to be hoped such a carnage will never again happen in the history of this world! The co-pilot of the Enola Gay that dropped the first atomic bomb said, "My God, what have we done?" Another point of view Yes, the effects of the bomb were terrible. It was something out of Science Fiction! But the Japanese were of a mindset to fight to the death in so many instances that the option of using the bomb to force a surrender could be argued to actually have saved may lives - both those of Allied soldiers and those of many Japanese, who all would have died if Allied forces had been forced to attack and subdue the Japanese on their home islands. No one with any comprehension of Japanese strategy and tactics in World War 2, and a view of the bloody history of the fighting across the Pacific theater, would believe for an instant that using the bomb was not the correct decision at the time. Give the Japanese the respect they are due. They were fighters of the first caliber. Many if not most of them were quite prepared to die for their country (their Emperor). Many of them did. But the horrendous effects of a nuclear blast can leave anyone who considers the destructive power of the weapon (when used on urgan targets) feeling most uneasy. May He who will judge us all hold closely all those who died in the two blasts. May He touch those who lost family and friends in those events. And may He have mercy on all those who invented, designed, built, and deployed the weapons, including everyone in the chain of command, up to, and including the one who ordered the missions. It is possible to argue that there are, in the end, no winners of nuclear war.