What Is Ironic About The Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb By Steve Sheinkin

It all started in 1938 when the first discovery of the atomic bomb was found known as fission. Top physicists from different countries were gathered to help make the deadliest weapon in the world. The government entrusted these physicists with the secret of constructing the atomic bomb so other countries like the Soviet Union and Germany would not figure out their detailed plan. Although they were given that oath to secrecy, inside the walls of Los Alamos the Laboratory used for the building of the bomb in New Mexico, physicists took detailed information to the direct source of the Soviet Union. Steve Sheinkin gives you an entirely new look at the dropping of the atomic bomb in the book “Bomb”. Steve Sheinkin objective towards this book …show more content…
Many people have their own views towards this. To me, the dropping of the bomb was a good thing on our part, because if our enemy got their hands on the supply we had, there 's no telling what would have happened. Germany was sabotaged for their vast supply of heavy water, which would have provided them with necessary equipment to build a bomb. Due to Adolf Hitler 's death and the attack on the heavy water plant, Germany was no harm to us. This proves to show what could have been done. At this point, the war had been going on for a while and everyone was ready for it to be over, Leslie Groves stated “...I was ready to do whatever it took to win the war” (Sheinkin, 116). We did whatever we could to end the fighting between Japan and without the dropping of the bomb then who know how long it may have lasted or what the outcome could have been. Sheinkin does a good job supporting his information toward the atomic bomb and the ongoing decisions with the drop on Hiroshima. “I would assume full responsibilities for such decisions as had to be made” (Sheinkin, 161) said President Truman. Truman had to make a lot of choices toward the atomic bomb and it was important to our country that they were made right for the safety of others even if it may have caused disagreement or even …show more content…
In the book “Night” it talked more about the concentration camps and the hardship that came along with it, whereas “Bomb” is more of the American point of view. At the end of “Night” the young boy, Elie Wiesel, was saved by American troops, although “Bomb” didn’t talk too much in depth about the concentration camps and germany, beside what they were doing with the Heavy Water Plants they were collecting, it did mention about how the American troops went into Germany and all around were white flags to surrender and then it would have probably been the time when the Americans saved the Jewish people from their terrible living conditions they were put in during the concentration camps. To me both of the stories had different points of view in which they focused on, reading both of them you learned all the aspects of Nazis and the Concentration Camps and the way the Americans saw what was going and how they dealt with