After reading the different excerpts in our packet I believe I can safely make the argument that dropping the atomic bomb was a good decision. The dropping of the bomb has many underlying factors that support that it was a good decision and many that support that it was a bad decision. The first factor that led me to believe that it was a good decision was that Americans believed that the Japanese would never have surrendered. If the bomb had not been dropped many American lives would have been lost in an invasion into Japan. Another reason was that the bomb itself to make required a lot of time and money. 200 million dollars is a big investment into something that we were not going to use. We wanted to justify all this money and time by using what we had carefully created. Also the Japanese were cruel towards the American soldiers of war and it was time to teach them a lesson. And the last reason was that we wanted to show our military supremacy to the USSR. The USSR was currently trying to build the same weapon and upon completing ours first we wanted them to know what they would be going up against.
Or Not To Bomb.
After reading the different excerpts in our packet I believe I can safely make the argument that dropping the atomic bomb was a bad decision. The dropping of the bomb has many underlying factors that support that it was a good decision and many that support that it was a bad decision. The first factor that led me to believe that it was a bad decision was that many innocent lives were killed. The landscape was completely destroyed and would take decades to rebuild. All that time and money Japan would spend rebuilding Hiroshima and Nagasaki is overwhelming. Innocent women and children were killed instantly by these 2 bombs being dropped. Another reason is was it completely necessary to drop the bomb rather then orchestrate an invasion on the mainland? I don't think it was, our military was far more superior and could have neutralized the situation without having such a big destruction and slaughtering of innocent people.
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The two bombs After the atomic bombs were constructed, they needed to be tested. ... This bomb is a Uranium bomb. ... He heard no sounds, not even a dog or a bird. ... This bomb was a Plutonium filled bomb. ... Even the people not hit by the great winds or heat died within thirty days from the radiation. ...
The atomic bombs finalized the world with killing. ... This did not hamper scientists of the day from researching their proposal. ... Second, appurtenance of the bomb would empower the United States, and not the USSR, to control postwar policy. ... Nuclear bombs are similar to conventional bombs. ... There are two main types of nuclear weapons, Atom bombs and hydrogen bombs. ...
On that day the United States of America detonated an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. ... After the war, the first real piece of literature about the bombings came in 1946. ... This book is a non-fiction account of the bombing of Hiroshima and the immediate aftermath. ... He emphasizes the survival not the suffering. ... Hersey did all this to provide what he considered and evenhanded portrayal of the evnt, but he also did not want to cause much controversy. ...
Development and Usage of the Atomic Bomb Logically, there is no obstacle for a nuclear or atomic bomb and right now there are no secrets in Nuclear Science. ... The bomb was code-named "Fat Man." ... Just three days after the bomb was dropped to Hiroshima, the second atomic bomb called "Fat Man" was dropped to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 (Tsuruya). ... After the first bomb was dropped, the Japanese did not surrender so a second bomb was dropped. ... I can agree with President Truman when he called it the greatest day in history because of the fact that we do not accept defeat and we had ...
To negotiate or to bomb? ... Not only was Fulbright worried about bombing Vietnam, but he and antiwar colleagues on the SFRC realized that there were even more frightening indications that the war was getting out of hand. ... This did not allow Rusk to view the war from a neutral perspective. When asked about the large amount of firepower and why it was not working, Rusk gave a response that the United States did not like. ... McNamara believed that if the U.S. continued to increase their force, it would cause the enemy to surrender. (90) Stennis and the SPIS made an effort that was designed t...
Through out the war president Harry Truman first had to make the decision to drop the atomic bomb, then the dropping of the bomb, and then after the bomb was dropped. ... The bomb was built and used as a weapon of war, the bomb cost two billion dollars and if the bomb was not to be used the money would have went to waste. ... The Japanese would not surrender to the Americans, they would rather die than surrender. ... The bomb was built and used as a weapon of war, the bomb cost two billion dollars and if the bomb was not to be used the money would have went to waste. ... The Japanese woul...
