Robert OPPENHEIMER

Robert Oppenheimer was assigned to the Manhattan project on June 1925 and then after three years the first atomic bomb was test fired.

Then less than a month later the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and a day later the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

POSITIVE effects of the atomic bomb

• America earned the respect of other countries
• We helped end WW2

the negative effects of the atomic bomb

• The respect that america earned was through fear 
• Radiation from the bomb caused mutations to the survivors  
• 9600 died of stroke and 8400 died of heart disease 

the negative effects of the atomic bomb

• The respect that america earned was through fear 
• Radiation from the bomb caused mutations to the survivors  
• 9600 died of stroke and 8400 died of heart disease 

The blast was so hot that it left scorch marks of people.