bombing of hiroshima

Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima” Speech Analysis

In the speech “Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima”, Harry Truman was the speaker. He was the President of the United States during the time. The audience was the people of the United States of America. In context, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and ended World War II. After this incident, the atomic bomb will be looked on the basic power of the universe and will be used to maintain world peace. Considered the subject of the speech, Harry Truman got his point across by expressing the need to drop the bomb in spite of the Japanese. Through ethos and logos, Truman states, “I shall give further consideration and make further recommendations to the Congress as to how atomic power can become a powerful and forceful influence towards the maintenance of world peace.” Explaining how the president feels towards the use of atomic weapons, he logically believes that they could possibly keep the world at peace. “But the greatest marvel is not the size of the enterprise, its secrecy, nor its cost, but the achievement of scientific brains in putting together infinitely complex pieces of knowledge held by many men in different fields of science into a workable plan.” Truman’s emotions are portrayed through this thought with the use of pathos. He says that it is amazing at the fact that brains could come up with something so powerful and effective to the entire world. An example of logos would be, “The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.” This statement shows how waking Japan and showing the possible power of the United States was a must or logical action during the war to prove the Americans have what it takes to compete worldwide and become the dominant country.