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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BigWalleyeCatcher" data-source="post: 376660" data-attributes="member: 8104"><p>With the highly anticipated movie coming out this Friday, I thought I should shed some light on how underplayed the Manhattan Project is on todays nuclear talk. In 1938, two German Scientists discovered that by smacking uranium with neutrons you could actually split it creating a chain reaction. Little was thought about the scientific breakthrough and Germany in large thought that it has possible medical capabilities. When British scientists began tests in what is now called “nuclear fission” they concluded that if you were to harness enough of a certain type of uranium and split it, it could cause a reaction like that of a never before seen bomb”. Although Nazi Germany worked on a bomb during the majority of WWII they were never close to actually completely one. Werner Heisenberg was the lead scientist for the Germans and when he had heard news the United States had a dropped and A bomb on Japan he refused to believe it was possible! American generals in the pacific laughed at the idea that a singular bomb, in this case two could end a war. Togethor General Douglas MacArthur and General Dwight Eisenhower planned an invasion of the Japanese mainland. This invasions was expected to take six months to a year to complete and cost in all likelihood a million plus American lives. When Truman dropped the bombs it shocked Eisenhower, MacArthur would later ask Truman to bomb China…. The Manhattan Project won the war for the United States but at what cost? I’ll lose this question to ponder. Was the United States justified in using the worlds first weapon of mass destruction?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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