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The Pros And Cons Of The Atomic Bomb

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According to shmoop.com, there were 1.9 billion soldiers deployed and 72 million total deaths during World War 2. Although much of the war was fought by the soldiers, there was also almost a completely different war going on between physicists. There was an arms race to see who would be first to build the atomic bomb. The main countries who were a part of this war of physics was Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Germany hit a road block and fell behind the other countries. Great Britain ended up joining the United States efforts. It was then a race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Neither country knew how far the other country was in their research. That is, without the help of a Soviet spy named …show more content…

Klaus Fuchs was still helping and adding his input into the Manhattan Project, which in itself was benefitting the United States. One arguing against Fuchs’s decision to spy, may bring up the fact that it took the Soviets only four years to test the next atomic bomb. As stated before, it is estimated that Fuchs’s information helped to speed up the Soviet research by around 2 years. The argument may say that six years compared to four years does not make much of a difference. If the time period had been longer for the Soviets to make their bomb, then there may have been fear of the United States taking advantage of the fact that they are the only country with a bomb but neither four or even six years would be enough for that to happen. Therefore, the argument against Fuchs’s decision would be was it really worth it? Yes, I still strongly believe that Fuchs made the right decision. At the time Klaus Fuchs had no idea how long it would take the Soviet Union to build the bomb and how much his information would help. In this case, the ends cannot justify the means. He made his best decision based on the information he knew and what he

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Klaus Fuchs was a German- born British scientist who had helped build the atomic bomb, was arrested in Great Britain for passing information about the bomb to the Soviet Union. The arrest of Fuchs had led authorities to several other individuals involved in a so called spy ring. Some of the other men that were involved were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Fuchs arrest in 1950 had came after a routine security check of Fuchs father. The AMerican FBI had informed the British authorities that decoded Soviet messages in their possession indicated that Fuchs was a Russian spy.

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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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It was because of the false allegations that ultimately lead to a dispute between both countries establishing a lack of trust. FDR started to feel paranoia which made him question who was his allies in general. Further evidence states,” The Manhattan Project [American code name for the effort to develop the atomic bomb] had not been secret enough, though, to keep Soviet intelligence from discovering a lot about it through espionage” (document f). Keeping the bomb project secrete gave the S.U. skepticism to continue being alliances with the United States. The level of equality that was established, was severed when the U.S. was making threats because the S.U. didn’t have the faith to believe that the U.S. wasn’t going to use blackmail

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From a meeting of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council, a conclusion was reached, “…we could not permit ourselves to be panicked by the Soviet Achievement [Sputnik]” (Document 3). The launch of the Sputnik only encouraged Americans to accomplish more scientific breakthroughs—before the Soviets. Before the release of the Sputnik, President Truman had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Shortly after, the Soviets had detonated their first atomic bomb in the late 1940s. Since the U.S. and the Soviets had both achieved a level of destruction through the atomic bomb they became engaged in an “arms race.”

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It was a project between the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Over 100,000 chemists, physicists, and researchers worked on the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project, but only a few of them knew the true purpose of the project. The Manhattan Project was tightly kept a secret. Only officials such as President Roosevelt and some scientists knew. Truman himself was not aware of the Manhattan project until he became President.

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On August 6th, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Two days later, the Soviet Union invaded Japan, sweeping through their Northernmost main island. The next day, we dropped another bomb on Nagasaki. With each bomb, tens thousands of people were killed instantly, and many more from the aftereffects of the bombling. We all know about this, but what most people don’t know about is the why we dropped it instead of invading Japan or just doing normal bombing and increasing the naval blockade.

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When the United States first entered World War II it was not only because they wanted to help Europe from being controlled by an evil dictator. It was also about how the United States was attacked on its own soil. This devastating act happened on Pearl Harbor, December 7 1941. Japan decided that they would attack the United States with blunt force and make sure that they knew Japan was an enemy that the United States would never forget. Japan did not take into consideration that the United States was a country that would avenge its devastation.

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On the morning of August 6, 1945 a US B-29 superfortress bomber aircraft left the island of Tinian and took off to Hiroshima, Japan carrying an atomic bomb called “Little Boy”. When Little Boy exploded it instantly killed 80,000 people. 60,000 more died the following weeks due to nuclear radiation (“Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” 1). On August 9, 1954 a US B-29 superfortress bomber aircraft left the island of Tinian and took off to Nagasaki, Japan carrying an atomic bomb called “Fat Man”. When Fat Man exploded it instantly killed 60,000 people.

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Over half a century has passed since the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the debate over the decision to drop it is still alive and well. While there are valid points for both sides, the evidence and reason shown leans in favor of the side protesting the dropping of the bombs. The atomic bombs have caused so many problems since they have been dropped - problems that could have easily been prevented. If Truman just stopped to assess the situation with a clearer perspective, he would easily be able to see that the dropping of such a bomb would leave lasting psychological and physical negative effects, that Japan was already in a fragile state and would have surrendered soon anyways, and that if he were to go through with the atomic bombs he should have at least warned Japan.

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The decision to drop the atomic bomb was a very hard decision for many people. The two sides to it were the people who didn’t feel the need to drop the atomic bomb and the people who did. It could have gone millions of different ways, but there was only one way that it went. Is it the right choice? Everyone had a different opinion of the atomic bomb dropping, although the atomic bomb was dropped you would be surprised at how many people didn’t want it dropped.

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