Rueter 1 Madeleine Rueter Mrs. Patricia Martin Social Studies 8M September 2014 The Battle of Iwo Jima The battle of Iwo Jima was a major turning point in World War II. The invasion stemmed from a need for a base near the Japanese coast. Securing the Japanese island was a huge strategic victory for the United States and its allies in the war because it provided an emergency landing strip for crippled B-29’s and minimized Japan’s ability to intercept bombing fighters. The great distance
to such a ferocious act? Well before that day the father of “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” (the two atomic bombs detonated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki) was the “Gadget”, which was birthed from the first nuclear weapon detonation The Trinity Project. This paper will discuss the accounts of the initial nuclear testing that birthed the subsequent nuclear weapon, the magnitude of the explosion, the politics that went into the decision to support this project,
early hours of July 16, 1945, great fear and excitement were out of hand at the White Sand Missile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The director of the Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer was nervous because all the years of secrecy, test and research were riding on that moment. “The last few moments he glared directly at the scene and when the announcer shouted now there was a burst of light followed immediately after by a deep growling of the explosion, his face relaxed into an expression of