Thursday, February 12, 2015
The Atomic Bomb
Today, we finished watching "Victory in the Pacific". This section of the focused on the final months of the war, when the United States liberated the Phillipines, won at Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hioshima and Nagasaki. There was much conflict over whether or not the U.S. should have used the atomic bomb. Some argued that the United States should have had a demonstration of the bomb, giving the Japanese an opportunity to surrender before thousands of civilians died. This idea was viewed as impractical, and the prospect of a demonstration was shut down. Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, 1945 and Nagasaki was bombed 3 days later. In the documentary, a Japanese veteran was interviewed, and he stated that he was not angry at the United States for using he bomb because he knew that if Germany or Japan had invented it first, they would have used it. Many people believe that the bomb saved many lives because it meant that the United States would not have to invade Japan, an invasion that would result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of men. Do you think that the United States was correct in their decision to use their atomic bombs?
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I believe that it was wrong for the United States to bomb Japan the way they did, maybe they could of been able to negotiate or even threaten them, but not actually bomb them and the innocent civilians.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think that it was right for the United States to bomb Japan because they killed innocent people that were not even involved in the problems that the US and Japan had. I also agree with Lourdes that they should have negotiated instead of killed innocent people because it wasn't fair for people that didn't know what was even happening.
ReplyDeleteI think at the time it seemed like the only option because the Japanese were not giving up. Looking back at it, it is easy to say that we shouldn't have dropped the bomb, but at the time it seemed like it was either going to be we drop the bomb or 100s of thousands of Americans die.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe using the Atomic bomb was necessary because hundreds of thousands of lives were lost from the impact. We should have only kept it to intimidate others of our power in a defensive way.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe using the Atomic bomb was necessary because hundreds of thousands of lives were lost from the impact. We should have only kept it to intimidate others of our power in a defensive way.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the decision to use the atomic bomb. Although many civilians were killed, it actually saved many more lives. If the atomic bomb was not used, the war would continue for a very long period of time and more soldiers would be killed. So I think that the use of atomic bomb ended the war quickly and prevented more people from being killed.
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