Atomic HIST110
The Caf The trinity bomb sent two different shock waves unexpected damage President Truman Dropped two bombs on Japan over a period of 3 days? Nagasaki and Hiroshima Used as an experiment to test the damage it would cause
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Japan then surrenders Used Bikini to experiment Evacuate the all the people in order to do so 1947 Wisconsin reenacts what would happen if a communist government would take over propaganda ploy to Americans 1949 Russia creates bomb Start preparing for bomb threats in US 200 million dollars spent on preparation for bomb threatscheck points, training, etc. UN had to pull back in North Korea Skepticism of who was American and who communist was Rosenburg husband and wife executed for being the ABomb spies 1950 American's encouraging producing the Hydrogen Bomb Eisenhower runs for president Promotes American's strengths to win election
1953 Japanese ship sets off bomb, radio active ash contaminates people and fish from the ship Tested bomb on border of California, Nevada and Utah, because of the wind, it was believed that there would be a radiation effect in a small town 100 miles from the site Lack of knowledge of the effects radiation has on people "duck and cover" believed that you should be more than 12 miles to survive fallout shelter in the basement of the hosue
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