The creation of the Atomic bomb was one of the most profound military, as well as technological achievements of the twentieth century. Nuclear technology has made it possible to have dependable electricity in our, as well as many other countries. It also acts as a war deterrent in some ways, this is so because no one wants the world breaking out in Nuclear warfare. It would surely bring an end to man kind as we know it. In this essay, I am going to give a history of the Atomic Bomb, while supporting the above thesis.
             It was during the Second World War that the United States decisively became a world power. America achieved this World power status, thanks in a large part to its monopoly on atomic weapons. The atomic bomb is a weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of such heavy elements as plutonium, or uranium (http://www.atomicarchive.com/index.shtml). This new destructive force was so powerful that it brought an end to World War II. Even though it brutally killed thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians, it also saved thousands of American lives, because a ground invasion of Japan was no longer necessary. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the decision to commit to the creation of the atomic bomb. The plan was known as the Manhattan Project, and it would forever change American history. In 1939, the German dictator Adolph Hitler invaded Poland. During this year German scientists also shocked the scientific world when they announced that they had split uranium atoms by man-made means for the first time. Upon hearing this news, a nuclear physicist, Leo Szilard, was convinced that a chain reaction of this process could be used as a weapon to release an awesome burst of power. Szilard knew that this knowledge was now in the evil hands of the German enemies.
             In July 1939, Szilard and his long-time associate Edward Teller, drove to Alber...