Atomic bomb

The United States justifies dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because they told Japan that unless they surrendered they will drop atomic bombs on them. Since the Japanese did not reply, President Truman felt that it was right to get revenge for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. However, I completely disagree because tons of innocent people were killed just because Japan did not respond to the United States threat. In the Modern World History book by McDougal Littell it states that “a Japanese

Germany, [and] informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act.... During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and second because I thought that our country

August 6th, 1945, 70,0000 lives were ended in a matter of seconds. The United States had dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Today many argue whether or not the U.S. should have taken such a drastic measure. Was it entirely necessary that we drop such a devastating weapon? To answer that first we must look at was going on in the world at the time of the conflict. The U.S. had been fighting a massive war since 1941. Moral was most likely low, and resources were at the same level as moral

On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan which caused many deaths. Should United States have dropped the Atomic bomb on Japan? According to the following arguments there are many reasons this was a wise choice, a few of them are that the atomic bomb saved American lives, saved Japanese lives, and also it shortened the war between United States and Japanese. The dropping of the atomic bomb took some lives but overall was the best way for the war to come to an end which lead

On August 6th and 9th 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The attacked could be described as catastrophic, with tens of thousand killed per bomb, and thousands killed after, due to radiation. Controversies erupted following the bombing, and debates continue to this date. It is this controversial subject that students in Period 1-2 AP Statistic were asked about. Two questions were asked, more normal question and an biased one. The normal question

Decision to use the Atomic Bomb By reece farnsworth The article that I suport was the article supporting the use of the Atomic bomb. This article was written by Michael Barnes. The first argument in the article was that it saved american lives. U.S. Army chief of staff george marshall thought the americans would suffer 31,000 casualties in the first thirty days, while Admiral Ernest King, Chief of naval operations, put them between 31,0000 and 41,000. Chester nimitz, whose staff conducted their

history. This war was drastically different from all of the other wars. The reason being because the atomic bomb was first used. The atomic bomb had been dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. At the time of the dropping of the bombs, the United States public had no clue it even existed. This leads to the question, what did the United States citizens think about the dropping of the bombs? The country was divided between support for that drastic measure and criticism of the devastation

President Harry S. Truman approved the atomic bomb on July 30, 1945. In August 1945 the United States dropped two atomic bombs over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Hiroshima atomic bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy” , was the first ever atomic bomb deployed on another country and killed about eighty thousand people from the initial explosion. The second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki three days later and killed an estimated forty thousand people from the initial explosion. There is an ongoing battle

for the United States to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese Empire. Now, almost seven decades later, that decision is still the topic of much debate. Why did Truman decide to use a weapon so destructive that it could kill hundreds of thousands of people at one time? Was the decision he made the right one? It is important to examine the factors that went into this difficult decision before taking sides. Critics argue that it was unnecessary and inhumane to use atomic bombs. It is no secret that the decision

radiation, visible” as a result the bomb became the beast. (Brothers, pg1). Metaphors in Cinema exist to help the public cope with societal problems such as death and fear of some kind. There is one monster in particular Godzilla, who was created through fear of an already existing threat atomic bombs. Godzilla a product of Japan, was used as a coping mechanism for their fear of the atomic bombs. Japan was the only country that suffered the effects of the atomic bombs. Not only did they have to cope