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.
Later that month, President Harry S. Truman announced to the American people that the Soviets too had the bomb. Three months later, Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist who had helped the United States build its first atomic bombs, was arrested for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets.t a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name âFirst Lightning.â In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb.