History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Atomic Cafe, Acute Radiation Syndrome, Atomic Age
16 Sep 2018
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If the americans didn"t build it then the. So we try not to think of the bomb in terms of mass destruction: we see the meaning of the bomb as a political decision: ultimately maintaining the security of america. It allows these people to be dehumanized to lab rats pg. 141 (cid:1688)the abc keenly reminded him(cid:1689) statistics - the product of pure war. To the americans, dropping the bomb became a scientific test - relate to boyer. They choose hiroshima because it is ringed in by mountains and they thought it would maximize devastation. They wanted a virgin area - untouched so that they could analyze the data. So while they dropped it to end the war, they also wanted to leave russia a message. They had taken control of their government, frozen bank funds so they couldn"t take out insurance pg. It wasn"t until 1957 that they received first medical funding form the government.
