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The Pros And Cons Of Nuclear Attacks

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For many decades it has been the president who is given the power to act solely on what he believes is best for our national interest when responding to a nuclear attack. Bruce Blair, in a dialogue about the president’s authority to launch a nuclear strike, clearly states that the system is meant to be quick and precise for time constraints. It is critical for there to be a system that works quickly. When detecting a nuclear attack heading towards the U.S., it is only a matter of minutes before impact. Consider how fast everything must happen in order for a quick reaction. Radar’s must first detect the missile heading towards the U.S., after that there is an early warning team that has 3 minutes to determine whether it is credible or not. Once the credibility is determined, the pentagon is noticed and then the President is reached. According to NPR’s national security correspondent David Welna, the president only has about 60 seconds to make a decision. Sounds intense, right? …show more content…

However, there is measures to insure that the most capable candidate is the one in command of our country’s arsenal. For one, there’s the 25th amendment which states that if the “Vice president and a majority of principal officers of the executive departments” believe that the president is incapable of fulfilling his duties as the president, then the Vice president can legally take over as the new president. Furthermore, if the President attempts to launch a nuclear strike that seems completely irrational and illegal, the military of the United States is not forced to obey lawless

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Imagine being put in a predicament whereby you have to make a crucial decision, either by dropping bombs to save countless lives or to let the enemy proceed on brutally killing thousands more…What would you do? Quite frankly I feel that the answer is a “no brainer!” Harry Truman’s decision, the president of the US, on dropping atomic bombs upon Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. Japan was the one who first attacked the American Pearl harbour, and up until this time America was completely neutral during the war.

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This gives his audience a sense of security and relief as this implies that the United States would have stopped the attack if knowledge was present. Furthering the security, he states that he wants to unify the nation and “take all measures” in order to maintain defense and protection.

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If the bombs were not dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States would have lost at least one million American soldiers in a mainland invasion of Japan (Tucker, 5). That stated, dropping the bombs was the only viable option for sparing both American lives, as well as Japanese lives. The dropping of the bombs, albeit horrific, is justifiable because it saved millions of both American and Japanese lives, prevented the waste of valuable resources, and played a significant role in Japan's surrender. Dropping the bombs saved more lives than if the United States had done a land invasion (Walker, 5). If the war had been prolonged, the United States would have lost millions of lives (Tucker, 5); but the Japanese would also suffer.

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First off, not disagree with the decisions of the president to drop atomic bombs in Nagasaki, Hiroshima. The reason why I disagree with the atomic weapons that were drawn in japan is because there were thousand of people who were killed, innocent peoples who died in that bomb drops. there were military men who died, but at the same time is was acceptable for united states to fight, and win the war. United states were discomforted the lost thousand of people, including military, 48,000 people from the united states, military, and innocent peoples. It was grave that the united states had thousands of life that are why they proposed the attack besides japan.

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