Little Boy Essay -- Informative, Manhattan Project, Hiroshima

At midnight on August 6, 1945, the pack of the Enola Gay got the orders to get ready for their mission. By 245 AM they were in all packed, ready to go, and took off for their intended target (Black & Blashfield, 1993, p. 30). They flew through the darkness of the night riffle for many moments. Dawn appeared and finally Enola Gay came close to their future objective. Then, just about 724 AM, the pilot received a transmission from a weather aircraft, which had flown ahead of them, that there was hardly a cloud in the sky and that they should continue to their goal (p. 30). As they grew closer to Hiroshima, about 30 miles away, the captain gave the controls over to Major Ferebee (p. 30). As the minutes and seconds passed by it seemed perpetual. Finally at 81517 Major Ferebee yelled out, Bombs away (p. 30). It took about 50 seconds for the nuclear bomb to fall and reach1,900 feet above the city where it exploded (Langford, 2004, p. 57). One of the crew members commented on itA column of smoke rising fast. It has a fiery red core. A bubbling mass, purple gray in color, with that red core. Its all turbulent. Fires are springing up everywhere, like flames shooting out of a huge bed of coalsHere it comes, the mushroom shapeIts like a mass of bubbling molassesits nearly level with me and climbing(pp. 32-34).Never again will anything be the same.CreatingIn New York City the main ideas about the atomic bomb were developed, it was called the Manhattan Project. It was originally General Leslie R. Groves that was put in charge of the development of the atomic bomb. He wasnt exactly people friendly so he got Dr. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a civilian, involved as a project director. Communication and working proficient... ...nt of the buildings were bankrupted by the blast or the fires that started because of it (Encyclopedia.com). If the blast didnt destroy the buildings at first then the heat from the bomb caused fires that slowly destroyed the buildin gs.Cleaning UpA black rain fell from the sky, for about an hour after the blast, it had radioactive debris dropping everywhere. There was no actual help from Japan officials, at first. It was just people that were less injured and that could help, would. In the days that followed, mostly collecting and disposing of the bodies. If they were recognizable and were claimed a funeral would be held for them. Collecting and storing contaminated debris was next. Eventually, rebuilding the city began. With rebuilding of the city there was a memorial park built called Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, with donations of monuments.