Nuclear warfare

Robert Oppenheimer and thousands of other intelligent scientists were appointed to work on the development of the world’s first nuclear weapon, that was used to bomb the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending World War Two. Soon after Japan's surrender,Oppenheimer resigned from his position as director of Los Alamos. A week later, Oppenheimer continued his talks with top officials. He walked into President Truman's office to discuss international cooperation, and the goal of stopping…

Cold War The United States was by far the world’s greatest power after the World War II and the country was boasting the world’s most powerful navy and air force as well as owning atomic bomb. The only power that could rival the US was the communist Soviet Union. The tension between the two nations created fear in the US and altered the American lives dramatically. This silent tension was fought through ideology and proxy wars, like the Korean War and the Vietnam War. In Europe at the time was…

Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus discussed how he examined the Ideology of Liberal Consensus. It also discussed how the culture of America responded to the Liberal Consensus’ radical reassessment of America’s nuclear policy around the early 1960’s. In the article Maland discussed how WWII had caused the Americans to feed off of the rewards of war, for they had defeated Hitler and the Nazis from taking over the world. Furthermore, the Americans had…

The Bombs Shouldn’t Have Been Dropped Fat Man and Little Boy, the two bombs used to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Americans weren’t justified to drop the Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Atomic bomb explosions were so big it completely leveled out Hiroshima and Nagasaki there were about 9 buildings still standing after Little Boy hit Hiroshima and about 7 buildings standing after Fat Man hit Nagasaki. The Americans knew the bombs would completely wipe out the whole cities of…

regular bombs, the actions of the Japanese would have been similar, but there would have been fewer casualties and a lower chance of future world destruction. With the knowledge of nuclear fission and the power that comes with it, countries are constantly threatening each other with nuclear war. If a future nuclear war were to take place, there would be hardly anything left growing or living. Humanity wouldn’t necessarily be wiped out, but the world would not be a pleasant place to live any…

The atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are responsible for the deaths of approximately 210,000 people that occurred in a matter of minutes. There is no doubt that its people might still have some kind of grudge towards the American public. War is war regardless of how it is conducted but the use of a weapon that is capable of wiping out an entire population is a little too extreme – especially used on innocent people and especially when its damage is still casually appearing. Japan was…

The death of thousands in a moment; the power that was held in possession by the United States to end war. On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Japan killing thousands of people in the city of Hiroshima (Dudley 119). Prior to dropping an atomic bomb, Japan failed to respond to the proposed ultimatum for the country to surrender. Harry S. Truman became the President of the United States after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945 (Dudley 119). In 1945 Harry S. Truman argued…

Criticisms of Japan Among the films in FCLT 306, The Wind Rises & The Grave of the Fireflies were my favorites to watch. Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata created masterpieces of animation, films that promote the beauty of life and examine the effects of war. In the aftermath of World War II, Japan had entered a new era, a time of American occupation and westernization. It was in this time that Japan created a new identity for itself. During the late 1980s, Japan had become one of the largest…

war and conflict, citizens relate and make sense of these activities in different ways. Nations perform isolation events and force humans to feel dehumanized when they are desperate to protect and defend their country. Concentration camps, slavery, nuclear bombs, and torn away from your home all relate to the conflicts of war. Imprisonment and forced labor was a major and common way to dehumanize the enemy in order to feel superior. In “Unbroken”, the Bird mandates the POWs to serve for…

President Harry S. Truman was just sworn in as the President of the United States when he got the appalling news about the newly made atomic bomb that Roosevelt has been planning to use to cease the war and that it could destroy a whole city within seconds. The bomb called “Little Boy” was not so little after all. This is the bomb that ended up killing over eighty thousand people who were in its proximity. On August 6th, 1945, President Harry Truman made a “difficult” decision to bomb Japanese…