extremely passionate of their work. The project itself, became very successful due to the extensive research. For example, one of its biggest benefits was that it lead to the discovery of how to harness nuclear power. Nuclear power plants became much more efficient than conventional power plants, and today have become a large supplier of power for the United States and the rest of the world. Also, technology discovered in the creation of the A-bomb was being used for medical purposes. Over the years, doctors have gained the use of CAT scans and radiation to treat patients. As one can imagine, the few years during the project must have been considerably exciting. However, when the project was completed, this attitude changed as many scientists were against the usage of the bomb. You may ask yourself, why did they work themselves so hard on the bomb, but were against using it? In actuality, the scientists had been pursuing the atomic bomb in pure scientific interest. They had no intention of using it for military purposes. Dr. Leo Szilard, a Hungarian-born physicist quoted, I opposed it with all my power, but I'm afraid not as effectively as I should have wished. August 6, 1945- It was a Monday morning; a Monday morning which no one would ever forget. 8:15 a.m. - the first atomic bomb, also known as "Little Boy", was dropped on Hiroshima. It was dropped from the Enola Gay, one the U.S.s B-29 bombers that flew over on that day. It took about a whole minute for Little Boy to reach the point of explosion, but when it did, it caused devastating human injuries. The people who saw and survived Little Boy said, "We saw another sun in the sky when it exploded." The heat and the light generated by the Little Boy were far stronger than bombs which they had seen before. When the heat wave reached ground level it burnt everything around it. The strong winds generated by the bomb destroyed most of the houses and buildings within a 1.5 mile radius. W...
