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The Pros And Cons Of The Atomic Bomb

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It is 1945. The Second World War is still going on. The United States of America is in a war with their Pacific neighbours, Japan. It has been like this since December 7th ,1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor which triggered the battles. By July of 1945 no side was going to surrender .The US decided they want this war to be over once and for all. On 6th and 9th of August the US dropped the atomic bomb on Japan cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The United States did the right thing by dropping the atomic bomb which resulted in japanese surrender and ended the war quickly after.

When you think about dropping the atomic bomb in a place full of people such as a city with population of hundred fifty thousand people, what you would think first is ‘everyone …show more content…

It saved lives on both sides. There was no need for amphibious United States invasion, no long campaign through Japan, the war was made shorter than it should have been and that is how thousands or even millions of lives from american and japan side were saved.

The second argument for dropping the bomb is the one that says they had to test it. A lot of money was spend, and a lot of people,scientists were engaged in building it. This was by far the worst destruction weapon that humans have seen, it had enormous power to destroy everything in its path. For President Truman at that time, the decision to use the bomb was still a mystery, he had no idea what should have been done.
Scientists Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi escaped the raging war in Europe. Now they were both living in America. Einstein wrote a letter to the President Roosevelt in which he says that the United States should invest in developing atomic program. Later in 1941, that is what happened and the program for developing atomic bomb was code named the Manhattan Project. The first major discovery happened in December of 1942, when Enrico Fermi produced first controlled nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago with a few of his

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