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Short Essay #3, 4/11, Section D
The Role Situation and Intention Had on the Usage of Atomic Bombs During the mid-1990s, there was a major breakthrough in the field of nuclear weapons. After being warned by Albert Einstein about Germany’s intention to use a nuclear chain reaction to construct a bomb, Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the Manhattan project to a design similar weapon. The United States was able to construct the first atomic bomb under the Truman administration, and used it in August of 1945 on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The use of these bombs ended the America’s war against Japan, but at the expense of many innocent Japanese lives. It was these bombings, which demonstrated the destructive power of these …show more content…
President Truman took office near the end of World War II, when America was still at war in the Pacific. Americans slowly became tired of the war and the losses that rose from it. This was why Truman found it necessary to end the war immediately. However, Truman also wanted to save as many American lives as he could because he wanted to maintain Roosevelt’s war strategy and because of his personal experiences. Roosevelt’s primary tactic was to achieve a victory at war at the lowest expense of American lives. This resonated strongly with Truman since he had lost a comrade while fighting during World War I. After that loss, Truman said, “I certainly hope I don’t lose another man until we are mustered out”. 1 Consequently, in order to save American lives and to end the war, Truman threatened to use the atomic bomb if the Japanese did not surrender. Truman addressed the Japanese and told them to, “petition the Emperor now to end the war,” or else the atomics bombs and, “other superior weapons [would be employed] to forcefully end the war”. The Japanese’s refusal to surrender caused Truman to deploy the …show more content…
To begin with, neither country wanted to start another war of the magnitude of World War II. In fact, both did not have the intention of declaring war because of the war fatigue that both countries experienced after World War II. Furthermore, Kennedy and Khrushchev had the purpose of using these weapons as a medium of “deterrence”. Both sides used these weapons to minimize the chance of an attack happening by posing the facade that they would be ready to retaliate against an attack. Khrushchev stated in his memoir that it was not his intention to start a war against the United States when the Soviet Union began to install missiles in Cuba nor was it to interfere in the affairs between the United States and Cuba. Therefore, Truman’s objectives were distinct from those of Kennedy and Khrushchev, which in turn, strongly influenced how they approached planning their different
Short Essay #3, 4/11, Section D
The Role Situation and Intention Had on the Usage of Atomic Bombs During the mid-1990s, there was a major breakthrough in the field of nuclear weapons. After being warned by Albert Einstein about Germany’s intention to use a nuclear chain reaction to construct a bomb, Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the Manhattan project to a design similar weapon. The United States was able to construct the first atomic bomb under the Truman administration, and used it in August of 1945 on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The use of these bombs ended the America’s war against Japan, but at the expense of many innocent Japanese lives. It was these bombings, which demonstrated the destructive power of these …show more content…
President Truman took office near the end of World War II, when America was still at war in the Pacific. Americans slowly became tired of the war and the losses that rose from it. This was why Truman found it necessary to end the war immediately. However, Truman also wanted to save as many American lives as he could because he wanted to maintain Roosevelt’s war strategy and because of his personal experiences. Roosevelt’s primary tactic was to achieve a victory at war at the lowest expense of American lives. This resonated strongly with Truman since he had lost a comrade while fighting during World War I. After that loss, Truman said, “I certainly hope I don’t lose another man until we are mustered out”. 1 Consequently, in order to save American lives and to end the war, Truman threatened to use the atomic bomb if the Japanese did not surrender. Truman addressed the Japanese and told them to, “petition the Emperor now to end the war,” or else the atomics bombs and, “other superior weapons [would be employed] to forcefully end the war”. The Japanese’s refusal to surrender caused Truman to deploy the …show more content…
To begin with, neither country wanted to start another war of the magnitude of World War II. In fact, both did not have the intention of declaring war because of the war fatigue that both countries experienced after World War II. Furthermore, Kennedy and Khrushchev had the purpose of using these weapons as a medium of “deterrence”. Both sides used these weapons to minimize the chance of an attack happening by posing the facade that they would be ready to retaliate against an attack. Khrushchev stated in his memoir that it was not his intention to start a war against the United States when the Soviet Union began to install missiles in Cuba nor was it to interfere in the affairs between the United States and Cuba. Therefore, Truman’s objectives were distinct from those of Kennedy and Khrushchev, which in turn, strongly influenced how they approached planning their different