July 16th‚ 1945‚ a test bomb was successfully detonated at a test bomb site in Alamogordo‚ New Mexico. Months later‚ on August 6th‚ 1945‚ the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9th‚ 1945‚ a second atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. In my opinion‚ the dropping of the atomic bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” on Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ was not justified. I believe it was not justified because of the effect it had on innocent civilians
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Atomic bombs were the first nuclear weapons to be developed‚ tested‚ and used. In the late 1930s physicists in Europe and the United States realized that the fission of uranium could be used to create an extremely powerful explosive weapon. In August 1939‚ German American physicist Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt that described this discovery and warned of its potential development by other nations. The U.S. government established the top secret Manhattan Project
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The Atomic Bomb The atomic bomb is a powerful‚ explosive nuclear weapon. It is fueled by the fission of the nuclei of specific amounts of plutonium or uranium‚ in a chain reaction. The strength of the explosion created by one of these bombs is equal to the strength of an explosion created by thousands of tons of TNT. The atomic bomb was first created in the early twentieth century. Physicists in the United States and Europe had discovered that the fission of uranium could be used to create
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Gar (2010-12-29). The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (p. 39).)” So if the war were to end the Japanese would have to unconditionally surrender‚ secretary of state James Byrnes said as much‚ “For instance‚ in his 1947 book Speaking Frankly‚ James F. Byrnes declared without qualification: “Had the Japanese Government listened to [Ambassador to Soviet Union] Sato and surrendered unconditionally‚ it would not have been necessary to drop the atomic bomb. (Alperovitz‚ p. 34)” The Japanese refused to surrender
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In After the Bomb‚ composers not only critique personal and political values but also manipulate textual forms and features in response to their times. Evaluate this statement with reference to a prescribed text OTHER texts for your own choosing (Hiroshima‚ Lasch) The cold war brought with it a darkened fog over almost the entire human race. Physical‚ psychological and emotional walls developed instantaneously. The world’s cultural‚ social and political paradigms seemed to shift in both negative
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Naomi Klein’s article‚ “Torture’s Dirty Secret: It Works” from the May 30‚ 2005 asserts that torture is a tool that has been used for a long time by investigative personnel to extract important information from detainees. Naomi Klein describes the effects of torture on its victims by including a victim’s ordeal in her article. One of the victims of torture that Naomi Klein includes in her argument is a Syrian-born Canadian known as Maher Arar. Maher Arar is the world’s most famous victim of rendition
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In 1946 less than a year after the Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ John Hersey wrote a book that tells the stories of six different survivors of the bomb. He tells about what was happing right before the bomb was dropped‚ how they survived and tracked their lives after this tragic event. Reading through this amazing description on Hiroshima has been the only time I am not proud to be an American. Seeing the devastation that was caused by the Country I call home was really hard. Countless lives
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The use of the atomic bomb remains controversial to this day. There are academics and policy makers of the time that still disagree on the whether it was justifiable to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They debate if it truly was in the interest of ending the war sooner and with less loss of life. Several issues played together to help form the opinion that Truman acted for more nefarious purposes. Domestic as well as international politics is said to have played a role in the decision of Truman
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Debate Intro The pictures in front of you are the gruesome results of the utter destruction after the atomic bombs were dropped on both Japanese cities. Almost half a million victims; equivalent to 13‚000 tons of TNT; a 1.6 mile radius of destruction/bomb (within that radius‚ people were disintegrated‚ leaving shadows where they stood). Housewives and children were incinerated instantly‚ their internal organs boiled and their bones charred into brittle charcoal. 65% of the casualties were nine
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Bomb Monologue “The United States would not have succeeded without me!” I was heavily involved in WWII after Pearl Harbor where Japan did a surprise attack. I also helped the other world leaders to victory against Germany. And‚ I created the U-Committee to make the first atomic bomb‚ and the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ Japan which killed many people. I am the president so I made all of the decisions about the process of the bomb‚ and I declared war on Japan which made the Allies
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