Social Studies Chapter 11 Lesson 2 Answers

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As Hiroshima Smouldered, Our Atom Bomb Scientists Suffered Remorse

"...this deliberate, premeditated destruction was our least abhorrent choice." - Henry Stimson, Secretary of War in the Truman administration, defending the decision to use the atomic bomb ( Harper's Magazine, February 1947) As the facts of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki filtered back to Los Alamos in August and September, the earlier exuberance of the Manhattan Project's scientists and engineers turned introspective and, by stages, morose.

The worst translation mistake in history - Pangeanic

The story is as follows: in July 1945, the allied countries meeting in Potsdam submitted a harshly -worded declaration of surrender terms. After their terms were translated from English into Japanese, they waited anxiously for the Japanese reply from the then Japanese Prime Minister, Kantaro Suzuki. This ultimatum demanded the unconditional surrender of Japan.

Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye, 79, World War II code breaker

Jacqueline Jenkins- Nye , who was recruited out of Goucher College by the Navy to help crack codes used by the Japanese and Germans during World War II, but whose contribution to science might be more recognized by children who have seen her television-personality son, died Thursday. The Baltimore native was 79.