Justification of Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Essay

January 31st, 1950 President Truman announced that the Atomic Agency was told to continue with its work on the Hydrogen Bomb. Five months before this, the Soviet Union successfully detonated an atomic bomb at their test site in Kazakhstan. Then many weeks after that, British and U.S. intelligence found out that the German-born Klaus Fuchs, a top ranked scientist in the U.S nuclear program was a spy for the Soviet Union. This made Truman approve the massive funding for the superpower race to…

On November 26, 1941, Japan sends 6 aircraft carriers holding 408 aircraft. The carriers are sent to position themselves north west of Hawaii. Japan wanted to “broaden” the war by getting more participants in, so they chose to attack pearl harbor to get the United States actually involved. However, this would eventually lead up to the surrender of Japan by involving the US in the war. The United States was never actually in the war, they were just a neutral force until this event. The plan on…

2, 3, 5, and 150,000+, these are each important numbers surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. Two stands for the number of bombs dropped, and three was the number of days in between each of the bombs dropped. Five stands for the number of days it took the emperor of Japan to agree to surrender, and 150,000+ is the number of people who instantaneously died at the dropping of the bombs. Each of these numbers must be carefully considered while deciding if the United States was…

The K-19 was the Soviet's first submarine equipped with nuclear weapons. In order to keep up with the United States, the Soviet Union quickly constructed the K-19. Construction began in the late 1950s. The ship soon proved to be deadly. During the frenzied construction of the submarine, several people died. Two workers died when an explosion caused a fire to break out. While gluing rubber lining into a water tank, six women were suffocated by fumes. An electrician was crushed to death by a…

The completion of the atomic bomb is not enough to justify the use of it. However, it is the circumstance and context of America’s foreign policy that justify the USA’s use of nuclear warfare. The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was a significant threat to the United States, causing over 2,300 US casualties. It is undeniable that the surprise attack was an instant threat to their considered global dominance, domestic stability and entrenched ideology and nationalism. Pearl Harbor exacerbated the…

this, the citizens went on with their daily lives thinking it was just the Americans but after the first bomb was dropped onto the harbor, citizens of Darwin knew it was the start of a ferocious war on Australian home soil quotes a witness from the bombing of Darwin. The Japanese did not deliberately arrange for this war to begin, yet after the Japanese attacked Timor, they knew Australia would send aid so they proceeded to attack Darwin's harbor (Northern Region of Australia) and knowing that…

This newsreel is presented in the 1950s - Erika: You’re listening to Newsreel’s review of the 1940s with Matthew Lee, and me, Erika Roque. Welcome to this special program where you can listen back to the decade’s biggest and best news stories from around the world. In today’s program, the Island Hopping Campaign - a strategy employed by the U.S. to gain military bases and secure many small islands in the Pacific. U.S. troops targeted the islands that were not as strongly defended by the Japanese…

The invention of the atomic bomb The atomic bomb was the first bomb ever to make such destruction where ever it will hit and that if you’re close to it, then you won’t have any time to run away or anything. It can even destroy an entire town. It was made in the early 1939 and the person who made it was Albert Einstein and that the scientists had learned the secrets of the splitting a uranium atom which was a way to spread out fear and that all of the scientists were prison by the Nazi. So…

The Cold War began after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Cold War was a result of two major world powers, the United States and Russia (USSR), displaying a show of force with the nuclear weapons tests each were conducting. The Franck Committee, in 1945, met to persuade the American public into agreeing nuclear warfare could be disastrous. The USSR was a previous American ally, during WWII, and a superpower that would not be outdone or relinquish control-though they signed a peace…

The Inform 7 group project was a unique experience that exposed me to a new style of writing and programming, and group work. In order to successfully complete the project we had to communicate effectively, identify roles, and evaluate our work as a whole. The first step of our project was developing an idea. While developing the idea, all of us agreed that incorporating the Georgia Tech campus would make the game more relatable, engaging, and original. Our game’s basic theme is preventing a…