Fu Go Research Paper

Information is crucial in times of war, if one side knows where the other is about to move troops they can take action and lead an attack on them, gaining the upper hand. With the advancement of military strategy and weaponry careful planning and secrecy have become a major part of war. In an effort to prevent the Japanese Military from knowing its success with Fu-Go weapons, balloons carrying bombs across the Pacific that fell onto United States soil and in one case blew up and instantly killed five children and a pregnant woman who came across the contraption while out picnicking. The government had previous knowledge of these bombs, but had sealed all information on them from being released so Japan would believe that the Fu-Go project was …show more content…
Their responsibility is to not prevent the expression of any ideas, as is protected by the first amendment, but to restrict “indecent material” so as to prevent children from exposure to it. The FCC is a force to protect the freedom of speech and ensure that ideas can be shared. This government commission is what can exist in peacetime, unlike the wartime government suppression of the Fu-Go bombings. Limited censorship can be crucial for the protection of the population in times of war, but anything but the most limited form of censorship, such as a ban on indecent material from being broadcasted between six am and 10 pm so as to prevent its exposure to children, is fundamentally un-American. The expansion of media and access to publishing one’s own ideas has also restricted the government’s ability to even attempt to participate in the censorship of media. Now close to the entire US population has access to technology which can be used to share their ideas. There is also no cause to censor media as there is no direct consequence of the loss of life due