Atomic Bomb Persuasive Speech

At this time period of time, President Harry Truman needs to take into account that the Japanese are unlikely to surrender without some heavy persuasion. The Japanese have already attacked at Pearl Harbor, and there is no sign that they will stop anytime soon. Japan is attempting to create more allies to form a strong and dangerous coalition that will threaten the United States and its allies. Fortunately, scientists in the United States have been working on an atomic bomb and now would be the perfect opportunity to utilize it to end the Japanese empire. Rather than authorizing a ground invasion of Japan or negotiating the Japanese terms of surrender, President Truman should use the atomic bomb against Japan to cause a swift surrender of the Japanese empire for the purposes of maintaining global power and preserving the lives of as many American soldiers as possible.

The atomic bombs were dropped with purpose of solving diplomatic reasons and to inevitably make Japan surrender. The diplomatic goals the US had at the time was to prevent Russia from joining the war against Japan, but the US wanted to win the war before the USSR joined in order to prevent Stalin from claiming land in Japan and spreading communist influence throughout Asia. So in order to impede the potential spread of Russian influence and communism in post­war Japan, the US had to end the war as soon as possible or else the potential spread of Stalin and the Soviet Union’s influence might bring forth more devastating and graver consequences for the future of the US. The atomic bomb was a diplomatic and intimidating way of keeping the Soviet

The pressing question still lingers: Was the United States justified in using the Atomic Bomb against Japan during WWII? World War II stands as the bloodiest and deadliest war of all time. It involved more than thirty countries and resulted in over fifty million civilian and military deaths. It lasted six years, beginning with Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939. As the Allied Powers (mainly the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union) and the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) were in direct conflict with each other, many wonder if the cost of victory was too extreme. In late 1941, the process of creating the world’s first, most deadly weapon began. The production of the first atomic bomb was code named “the Manhattan Project.” After months of production, August 6, 1945, America dropped the “Little Boy” bomb on Hiroshima, wiping out ninety percent of the city. August 9, 1945, just three days after the devastation of the first bomb, America dropped the “Fat Man” bomb on Nagasaki. Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was not necessary, nor justified in ending World War II. Due to the fact that America targeted heavily civilian populated cities (with limited military value), that Japan was in a position of surrender before the bomb was dropped, and the fact that the U.S. did not give enough time for Japan to process the devastation of the first bomb before the second in Nagasaki shows that America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb was entirely unjustified.

The United States dropped their first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The explosion was tragic, “90 percent of the city was wiped out and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens and thousand more would later die to radiation exposure” (Lemay and Paul). Innocent children and citizens would die.

When the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki all living things in a five square mile radius of where the atomic bombs impacted died instantly, it ended the war and saved thousands lives. The following documents tell you about the importance of dropping the atomic bomb and the thinking behind there strategies. The US wanted Japan to surrender and wanted no more bloodshed and wanted the Soviet Union to be surprised. As stated in document 13 the Americans concern for Japan's unwillingness to resign, “imminent threat of a landing, on Japan proper by us, to convince them of the hopelessness of their situation”1. and again in document 16 shares thoughts for Russia involvement, “atomic attack against Japan would shock the Russians”2 finally document 17 shows the stubbornness of “Japan to agree Japanese leadership would probably not have surrendered if the Truman administration had clarified the status of the emperor when it demanded unconditional surrender prolongation of the war and cost a large number of human lives”3. Although some people think dropping the atomic bombs on Japan wasn’t justified, I think that dropping the atomic bombs on Japan was justified.

The months before the end of the war, presented America with an opportunity to employ a deadly nuclear weapon, unbeknown to the rest of humanity. And whilst it was evidently crucial for America to expose their military strength through utilising the atomic bomb, the affects were far more detrimental to the Japanese than ethically permissible.

This is what lead the Japanese to continue fighting long after success became futile, and long after their only strong ally had fallen in Europe. This insane perseverance is what lead the United States, forced into a war they never wanted to be in to begin with, to take drastic actions to finally end the bloodshed. America had two options at this point to force Japan to surrender: either they launch a full scale ground troop invasion of Japan, risking many lives on both sides, or they could cause such devastation to Japan with these bombs that they would essentially nuke them into compliance. The United States obviously chose the second option in this case, and this option did exactly as it intended: Japan surrendered and World War II was over.

The U.S. didn't know the power and effect of the atomic bomb so they decided to drop it on a city filled with innocent people and children. “Hundreds of thousands of civilians with no democratic rights to oppose their militarist government, including women and children, were vaporized, turned into charred blobs of carbon, horrifically burned, buried in rubble, speared by flying debris, and saturated with radiation.” Innocent people didn’t have to die to have the war come to an end. The atomic bomb was not the right thing to do and it wasn't necessary at all. Some people may say the Japanese were given a fair warning and the Japanese could have surrendered right then and there.

There was no technical demonstration America could do to bring an end to the war with the atomic bomb, so there was no other way to make an impression on the Japanese than military use (Stimson). The Americans needed to use the atomic bomb in military use, because there was no other option. All of the other ways they could use the atomic bomb wouldn’t work against the Japanese, and they could cause more American casualties, which was what they were trying to avoid. The bomb on a city was the only choice they could make that wouldn’t end in more war. In addition, Stimson reports “There was a very strong possibility that the Japanese government might determine upon resistance to the end… in such an event the Allies would be faced with the enormous task of destroying an armed force of five million men.”

bomb saved American lives. Dropping the atomic bomb will lead to the Japanese giving up and

Waiting on them to enter the war, made us susceptible to the highly likely event of them gaining power if they were to succeed in thinning out our enemy. In the larger picture, we were still concerned with making the Soviet Union more amenable to American wishes. The Secretary of states, Byrnes believed that the use of the atomic bomb “would improve his negotiating position with the Soviets on a growing list of contested issues” (p.282) and Truman shared his hope that the bomb might result in the added benefit of diplomatic advantages. So now President Truman appears faced with the choice whether to hope the Soviets help to defeat Japan, but then leave without trying to claim any territory or control for themselves, or to drop a bomb that would almost certainly end the war and offered the added possibility of deterring other countries from giving the US future trouble. It begins to seem obvious which one is the strategically superior choice based on the information available to

Moreover, dropping the Atomic bomb on Japan will set a bad example for the rest of the world. It’s very likely that this will start another war where countries that have been developing atomic bombs, such as the Soviet Union and Germany, will start dropping them in the future because of the influence of the Americans. They might establish a “If America can drop an Atomic Bomb, then why can't we?” mindset. Thus, creating an arms race taken to world destruction

Fellow citizens of the United States I have come to the conclusion that we will be dropping the bomb on Japan. After long nights of deciding what action must be taken to end World War 2 I’ve come to realize that the lives of our country are in my hand. The Japanese military command has rejected the request for unconditional surrender. So we must take action into our own matters. In order to Prevents American citizens from losing their lives; we shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications. Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Plus let me inform you all Germans are working hard to find a way to add atomic energy to the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world. I will not risk the fact that they could bomb us first. It’s crucial for us to drop this bomb in order to make Germany lose all their resources to develop an atomic bomb and use it against us.

There were few men in Washington who understood the role the atomic bomb could play in ending World War II and shaping the peace. Military planning focused on two options, conventional bombing accompanied by a blockade or an invasion of the Japanese home islands. Both options were so problematic politically and militarily that policymakers who were familiar with the Manhattan Project found it difficult to oppose the bomb’s use. There were also few men who knew the role the bomb could play in winning the peace. President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson saw the bomb as a way to shape the post-war world in the American

The atomic bomb has spread fear, terror, and uncertainty of the future around the world. Immediately after the first bomb went off, the Japanese were scared and confused as to what had just happened to their city. When just days later another bomb was dropped, it caused a tremendous amount of panic for them. As the word was spread throughout the world, it caused more and more talk of where else this could potentially happen. People no longer felt safe where they were but they couldn’t do anything about it. Even today the threat of another atomic bomb is lurking around all of us, and the idea of it is quite terrifying. For something as destructive as the atomic bomb you have to wonder, what if a military were to use this type of weaponry