Michael Duffin History Persuasive Essay October 29, 2009 Atom Bomb Justified? War, death, and fire are the only smells around you. Hundreds of your allies are lying in a dead rotting heap. Enemies are blowing their selves up right in front of you, throwing their guts and scorched body parts all over. War isn’t a welcome sight in the eyes of people, but some had to live in it and survive. When the United States was at war with Japan, soldiers saw many things like what was described. Some
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The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: History's Great Miscalculation On August 6, 1945, a new step in technological warfare was taken when the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The impact of the bomb alone killed at least 66,000 people.1 This was an event that would not soon be forgotten in history. The Americans, who knew the devastating effects of their new weapon, still chose to use it rather than an alternative means to peace. Many people still argue whether or
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Dropping of the atomic bomb in Japan(WWII) America's use of the atomic bomb against Japan been justified? Was it used to end the war? It probably wasn't necessary, but without doubt , the atomic bomb was used to end the war and it saved American lives. but was it right to kill a hundred thousand of Japans? President Harry Truman had to options: One of them was to use the atomic bomb and end the war, and kill thousands of innocents. Or the second option which was a wage war in the air, land and
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“So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages. I regard the employment of the atom bomb for the wholesale destruction of men, women and children as the most diabolical use of science.”-Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian anti-war activist; giving his opinion about the United States’s atomic bombs drop on Hiroshima, Japan. The outcomes of World War I had repleted many countries with fears, therefore they tried to avoid wars with each other. However
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A month after Einstein had left Germany he wrote a letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to develop nuclear technology and an atom bomb. Einstein said that German scientists might have already been working on a nuclear bomb. Roosevelt acted on the letter from Einstein and the government developed a top street secret project called the ‘‘Manhattan project’’ to build an atom bomb (World Book, 590-591). The director of the Manhattan
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write an editorial on Harry S Truman’s decision to order the dropping of the atom bomb. HARRY S TRUMAN & THE DECISION TO ORDER THE DROPPING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB Boom! Boom! Seventy thousands Japanese citizens were perished instantly after the first atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Japanese still refused to surrender to Allied forces. On August 9, 1945, with the dropping of the second atomic bomb in Nagasaki, where eighty thousands people were vaporized, Japanese surrendered
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Japan’s reaction to the atomic bombs, one the other hand, was anything but celebratory. Even after they found out about the horrific events at Hiroshima, the Japanese government censored reports about the atomic bomb, fervently repudiating its occurrence. The Japanese morning newspapers of August 8th revealed nothing more than how a “few enemy planes” had severely damaged Hiroshima with “a wholly new type of bomb” (Hando). Citizens were kept in the dark about the situation and were simply instructed
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Warfare Technology in WWII: The Atomic Bomb The most significant way that technology changed in WWII, was with the invention of the atomic bomb. A scientific advancement in the 1930’s made the atomic bomb production possible. The discovery of nuclear fission; the process in which an atom is split, and the realization that the power from this could be controlled to produce mass amounts of energy were elements of what fuelled this development. Once the bombs were made and tested the decision on
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use of the two atomic bombs in early August of 1945 was among the huge turning points that lead to the end of World War Two. The organization responsible for the research and development of these nuclear weapons was known as the Manhattan project. The development of this bomb changed the way scientists, as well as the rest of the world, looked at nuclear energy. It also help in bringing along one of the biggest arms races in history, the cold war. So why was this atomic bomb produced? It all started
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Warfare Technology in WWII: The Atomic Bomb The most significant way that technology changed in WWII, was with the invention of the atomic bomb. A scientific advancement in the 1930’s made the atomic bomb production possible. The discovery of nuclear fission; the process in which an atom is split, and the realization that the power from this could be controlled to produce mass amounts of energy were elements of what fueled this development. Once the bombs were made and tested the decision on
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