Justification of Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Essay

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    The extract from Pearl Harbor: A Rude Awakening is little more than just a simple footnote. This textbook was written by Bruce Robinson in 1970. It's original purpose was to educate students of the after war period about what really happened on the 7th of December 1941 during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The origin of this source is valuable due to the fact that Bruce Robinson eye witnessed the attack, thus it is a first-hand account of the event. Moreover, the purpose of this source is also…

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    Cheer up, it’s just the end of the world Summary and Analysis BY: IRA CHERNUS Quest 1 Summary and Analysis Alexis Buford Western Kentucky University In “Cheer up, It’s just the end of the world” by Ira Chernus, she has constructed how Americans overlook the shadow of apocalypse. In other words, apocalypse is complete destruction of anything or the world. In general, there are serve issues that remain disregarded. Chernus draws to readers’ attention how nuclear massacre and…

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    Japan involved more military actions. Since no negotiations were making progress, Truman was left with a difficult decision to make. Truman had to decide was whether he should send troops from the US Army to invade the island of Japan, or to use the atomic bomb spoken about at the Potsdam Conference to end the conflict. If Truman had sent troops to the Japanese mainland a brutal war would rage, there would have been many American fatalities. The fact that thousands upon thousands of allied…

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    The Battle of Britain was a game changing battle in World War II;It was also known as the London Blitz to many British civilians who suffered the consequences of the horrific battle. What was the battle of Britain, who won it, and what was its importance to the war? The Battle of Britain was an attack by the German Air Force on London. This was a special battle, for “This would be the first all-air battle in history,”notes Cowley and Parker. “About every to minutes a new wave of planes would…

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    produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. It all started when Einstein found out the Germans were working on a new and more powerful weapon for war. Einstein wrote a letter to the president which helped initiate the effort to build an atomic bomb. In December 1941 the government launched the Manhattan project. The project was originally named Development of Substitute Materials. It included over 30 different research and production sites. It took place in Oak Ridge,…

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    Was atomic bomb testing even necessary after World War II? When the United States of America developed the first atomic bomb in July 1945, they had to test it. After testing the bombs, the United States bombed Japan. Just after that ended World War II, the United States of America decided to continue developing and testing the atomic bombs. They chose to test the bombs in the Pacific but before engaging in putting the atomic bombs to test, the American government asked for permission from the…

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    The Invention Of Gunpowder Did you ever think of what is the point of gunpowder? Well, there was a lot of use for this invention of gunpowder.This powder changed history.A powder that is known for being useful for weapons,and fireworks which this powder made a big difference in warfare.The history of gunpowder was pretty astounding it was made around 850 A.D it was pretty long ago, instead of the chinese trying to find the key to immortality(live science) ,we found the key of us dying of weapons…

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    Big Bertha was a terribly powerful gun during WW1. Big Bertha was also known as the howitzer and was the biggest gun at its time. Anyone that was an enemy of the germans were devastated by its sheer power. Big Bertha demolished whole forts with single shots breaking the courage of the enemies. The shells that were fired were the biggest at the time (12 caliber.) This was all possible because of a man named Friedrich Krupp. Big Bertha has created many events that have changed war today as we…

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    interrogating them. Michael Levin says he agrees on torturing terrorists for information in his essay, “The Case for Torture”. He addresses his arguments by giving a few hypothetical scenarios of terrorist attacks. One of the examples is, when there is an atomic bomb in Manhattan which is going to explode very soon, the US got the guy who planted it and need to get the location of the bomb and method to disarm it. The guy will prefer death to failure, so, the US has the only way to get…

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    An atomic bomb, uses an atom to disperse nuclear energy, and then creates an explosion from two to around 15 square miles. Hiroshima was the final destination for the bomb known as little boy. Hiroshima was the beginning and the end of the war for the us. Hiroshima was originally a fishing village, but then grew into one of japan’s biggest and most major cities at that time. Since Hiroshima was originally a small fishing village it grew because the area it was located proved to be a very…

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