The Pros And Cons Of The Atomic Bomb

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My overall view of the decision to drop the atomic bomb is that it should not have happened, mostly because the information that I learned supported them not to have to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. First of all I learned that they chose Hiroshima because it had not been bombed yet by fire bombs or anything; but all along they been having naval blockades and been firebombing Japan. The Japanese basically wanted to surrender. It’s been said that they have called surrender but no one wanted to announce it because they wanted to drop the bombs and the Japanese didn’t want to look weak. They have already been at war with allied powers great Brittan, France, and was about to have a war with Russia who could basically finish them off. This information surprised me on how war was only caused because people wanted power not for what was right. My role of group number 5 was to write an appropriate paper augmenting the facts that we should warn the Japanese about are atomic bombs. Than if the Japanese don’t surrender, we should demonstrate the power of one of our atomic bombs in an unpopulated area. My contribution to the project is that we needed a good writer and I believe that I am a good essay writer do to the grades I’ve got of essays and papers I’ve done in the past. How my role impacted the group as a whole is …show more content…
I believed they had no right to come and kill are people so I was with the go bomb them plan. Until I did research and learned that we didn’t have to bomb them because we were already firebombing them and had naval blockades on them. They were eventually going to surrender so now I feel like the united States are in the wrong for atomic bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki when does places weren’t necessarily

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