Just before the beginning of World War II on August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists notified Roosevelt of the rising efforts in Nazi Germany to purify Uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb (Bellis). It was only shortly after when the United States Government began to work on "the Manhattan Engineer District" otherwise known as "the Manhattan Project" (Sherrow). For the next …showed first 75 words of 974 total…

…showed last 75 words of 974 total…produced. Another factor to why the Japanese surrendered was due to the significant amount of lives that were immediately lost in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet, it was definite that the Japanese military would have done everything in its will to save its country from an Allied invasion. So therefore the dropping of these A-bombs helped save the lives of many Allies that would have been lost if an Allied invasion in Japan were to transpire.