University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Honors Theses Student Research 2008 The interaction of nuclear fiction and leadership studies Kathryn Elberson Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses Part of the Leadership Studies Commons Recommended Citation Elberson, Kathryn, "The interaction of nuclear fiction and leadership studies" (2008). Honors Theses. 1280. https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/1280 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Research at UR Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. UNIVERSITYOF RICHMOND LIBRARIES IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII / 3 3082 01020 0193 The Interaction of Nuclear Fiction and Leadership Studies University of Richmond Jepson School of Leadership Studies Honors Thesis By: Kathryn Elberson Defended on April 23, 2008 to: Dr. Ana Mitric Dr. George Goethals Dr. Abigail Cheever Elberson 1 Introduction Part I: Leadership and Literature On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, another bomb, this one called "Fat Man," was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan during a second American bombing mission. Combined, these bombs killed 110,000 people, injured 130,000 others, elicited a surrender from the Japanese government that ended World War II, and changed the face of warfare forever. Clearly the deployment of these bombs was no small event in modern history, and the repercussions of the first use of atomic weaponry are still felt today. The development of nuclear weapons raised questions for America and the rest of the world that humanity still grapples with today, even more than sixty years later.