1 Background information on benefit-cost analysis and how it may fit into the project development process. 2  Discussion of economic terms and principles. 3  Review of relevant stages in conducting a benefit-cost analysis for highway projects.  Advice on using benefit-cost results.
On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, where 80,000 Japanese people perished. On August 14, 1945, the Japanese surrendered. Critics have charged that Truman's decision was a barbaric act that brought negative long-term consequences to the United States.his map shows the range of the destruction caused by the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Exploding directly over a city of 320,000, the bomb vaporized over 70,000 people instantly and caused fires over two miles away.
On July 25, after receiving Stalinâs pledge to join the U.S. in the war against Japan in the Pacific, Truman casually informed the Soviet leader that the United States had a new weapon of unusual destructive force.n his diary, Truman privately referred to the new weapon, the atomic bomb, as the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. The United States had successfully tested the worldâs first atomic weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945.