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The Pros And Cons Of The Atomic Bomb

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Atomic Bomb DBQ - Ben Fernandez Imagine waking up and getting ready for the day. Go walking on the way to work and a plane goes overhead. Looking up and see a small thing attached to a parachute get dropped from the plane. All the sudden the sky erupted in flames. Having just enough time to jump into a ditch before the loudest sound anyone will ever hear happened. The shock wave consumes the land. Spun around a bunch more and then land in a potato patch knocked out. woken up and everything is black. There is so much ash in the air nothing can be seen. Then met by scorching pain. Arms are badly burned and all that can be heard is ringing. Struggling to get up and once it happens looking around to see all the rubble and destroyed buildings. …show more content…

It is Japan, early morning, August 6th 1945. Japan has just been bombed by America. After evaluating whether or not dropping the bomb was right or wrong, it is obvious that the U.S. destroyed Japan out of malicious intent and anger toward the Japanese, but this gave America no right to drop the bomb on innocent civilians. America had also destroyed big parts of their industry and economy with their incendiary bombs, but Japan refused to surrender or show any sign of weakness. Many experts have argued that dropping the bomb was unethical and wrong. They think this because America had already destroyed Japan's economy and they were on the verge of collapse. President Truman was the one who ordered these two bombs to be launched on Japan. William Leahy was president Truman’s chief of staff at the time and was there when Truman ordered the bombs to be dropped. Leahy says in his memoirs “It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender” (Leahy 4). He saw all the things that President Truman ordered his troops to carry out. He knew the state that Japan was in when the bombs were dropped and how their economy was doing before they were bombed. He knew how Japan was doing as a

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The Bombing of Hiroshima The bombing of Hiroshima was the right thing to do due to the military lives that were going to be lost if the bomb did not get dropped, America also wanted to impress Russia or intimidate them by dropping it and the president saw this opportunity to make japan surrender as well. This all supports the main point on why it was the right thing to do but many to all Japanese say otherwise Lots of soldiers lost their lives because of the conflict with japan, in document B, it states,”123,000 Japanese and Americans killed each other”. Paul Fussell, a WWII soldier also stated, ”war is immoral, war is cruel”. This is speaking for all the soldiers in the war or most of them, this also means that he doesn’t like war and it would

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With more and more US lives being lost or will be lost when invading Japan more and more, the US made the reasonable decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan because like what Chamber said to win the war you have to end the other side and, “make it terrible, and the war will

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From these people's perspective, using the atomic bombs was a wise choice since it has protected many lives, families, and values. As Document 7 stated, a part of the population believed that there wouldn't have been an end to the war against Japan without the use of the atomic bombs, as the Japanese were persistent and would strive to win. According to Document 7, it states, “The Japanese refused to surrender,, fighting to almost the last man in every battle, committing mass suicide on Saipan, and unleashing suicide attacks at Okinawa.” This demonstrates that without the atomic bomb, there would’ve been more deaths on both sides as the war would’ve been dragged even further. Another reason why some were convinced that the atomic bomb was the right choice was because the Japanese were not

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Some Americans believed that the Japanese military and specifically navy was weak enough that the Americans could launch a successful land invasion on the mainland. However, if this was done it was estimated that over one million American lives would be lost and the Japanese would suffer many causalities as well (Document D). Also, there was many very bloody battles leading up to the dropping of the bombs that would support the idea. For example, Pearl Harbor that left 2,402 people dead and 1,100 people wounded. Battles like Pearl Harbor left Americans dead and supplies diminished (Document A).

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It 's challenging to look back at events and understand the logic of using an atomic bomb without allowing one scrap of knowledge to creep into our decision making. All of this being said, it 's still possible to come to the conclusion that using this weapon was wrong. The belief that a military blockade would end the war wasn 't believed any more than a military blockade without invasion of Germany would work. The notion that Japan was teetering on surrender is silly.

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The Nippon Times argued, “This is a crime against God and humanity which strikes at the very basis of moral existence” (Document 4). In addition, One Japanese man described Hiroshima as “No longer a city but a burned-over prairie” (Document 6). These quotes reveal how many in Japan viewed the bombings. It is not hard to see why those from Japan saw the bombings in this way. But one must remember it was Japan that drew the US into the war by bombing Pearl Harbor.

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In the twentieth century, the United States dropped two atomic bombs, which were the most powerful weapons at that time, on Japan. It happened on August 6 and August 9, 1945. The atomic bombs killed 226,000 Japanese and ended the war. However, America should not have dropped the atomic bombs for two reasons. First, it was not necessary to drop the bomb to win the war militarily or to get the Japanese to surrender.

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This was because everyone in America was caught by complete surprise. Doing things by surprise is a common thing, but brings out the worse in everyone. When this happened, there were over 3,000 U.S. Casualties, over 300 U.S. Aircraft damaged/destroyed, and over 20 U.S. Ships damaged/destroyed. This was also a big reason for the A-bomb because it was unnecessary for Japan to kill so many American lives and property, all because they were upset that former president Franklin D. Roosevelt interfered with Japan’s internal affairs. If that was their main reason, they could have figured some thing out through words, not actions like this one, It was necessary for the dropping of the Atomic bomb because the attack on Pearl Harbor needed to be payed back.

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We were told this was the necessary thing to do to lower the amount of casualties in both the United States and Japan. Many American politicians support this idea. The politicians among them were Harry S. Truman, the one-term president the one who made the final decision on dropping the bombs on Japan. In Truman’s 1955 memoirs, he stated that the bombs saved half a million lives. Truman bragged that he felt no remorse and stated in an interview that he never lost any sleep over the decision of bombing Japan.

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Abraham Lincoln, a Senate candidate at the time, gave his famous “A House Divided” speech on June 16, 1858, in Illinois at the Republican State Convention. When Lincoln delivered the speech his immediate audience was the Illinois Republican Party, but after reading the speech one can see that it was intended for a much larger audience. His speech was intended to impact people of both parties, and to change the way the people thought. During Lincoln’s speech, he had a few main ideas that he was clearly trying to illustrate to his audience.

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Was America Justified in dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945? On August 6th, 1945 at 8:16 AM, a great yet horrific event in history occurred. This event is known as the dropping of the atom bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, the event that would begin and end the pain and suffering of millions. The atom bomb was dropped by an American B-29 Superfortress bomber named Enola Gay and

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President Truman was treating people even worst by putting them through the torture of the bomb and the resulting effects of the bomb. Time became a major factor into the decision, and dropping the bomb was a result of that fear. On the other side of the argument, the Japanese did bomb Pearl Harbor which was the catalyst that got America involved in the first place. We as a country should not need to compromise with the nation who started the battle.

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Thousands of Japanese military personal and civilians were killed the dropping of the atomic bomb. This was a very important turn the war because the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced the Japanese to surrender rand withdraws from the war. The American government did the right thing when they bombed Japan. America wanted to end the war with Japan and they believed that an economic blockade and conventional bombing would force the Japanese to surrender and pull out of World War II .President stated that the bomb was a military weapon and that he never had any doubts that it should be used as such.

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