The Public Explanation And Karl T. Compton's If The Atomic Bomb Had Not Been

World War II was a time of great destruction worldwide. From bombs being dropped, grenades blowing up, and all of the warfare that happened on the ground one can only imagine how bad the destruction was. Toward the end of the war the United States used the atomic bomb to try and get Japan to surrender from the war. The atomic bomb is known as one of the deadliest bombs. Many people believe that it was not right to use to use such a deadly weapon because the war was close to being over. Many people also defended using the atomic bomb. Examples of people defending the use of the atomic bomb are Harry S. Truman’s The Atomic Bombing of HiroShima- The Public Explanation and Karl T. Compton’s If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used. Both of these giving many good reasons why the atomic bomb needed to be used. One of the first main points that Truman gives as to why the atomic bomb was a good thing was employment. Truman states “Employment during peak construction numbered 125,000 and over 65,000 individuals are even now engaged in operating plants.” This stat goes to show how many jobs that the making of the atomic bomb created. This was also a great thing …show more content…
Karl T. Compton also makes very good points defending the use of the atomic bomb. Compton gives many facts and numbers as to why the dropping of the atomic bomb was not as bad as two bombing raids over Tokyo. In Tokyo there were about 80,000 deaths from the atomic bomb. In Nagasaki there were around 45,000 deaths from the atomic bombs. In the bombing raids over Tokyo one raid killed around 125,000 people and another around 100,000 people. These numbers are very shocking. Many people would believe that they death numbers from an atomic bomb would be incomparable to the numbers of a normal bombing raid. There were also numbers to prove that the bombing raids over Tokyo destroyed more land than the dropping of the Atomic bombs