Monday 29 April 2013

Dropping the Atomic bombs

After the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in World War 2, people began wondering if that was justifiable, dropping two nuclear bombs and killing hundreds of thousands of people.  I believe that it was justified because the Japanese had brought the USA into the war by attacking Pearl Harbor.  By bringing them into the war they had to know that there was the possibility that something bad might happen. Also Japan had the chance to surrender multiple times, like when the Germans fell or when the allied forces took over there islands or even after the first bomb was dropped but they didn't so the USA dropped a second bomb. This is one reason I think it was justified another was the damage the Japanese caused. The Japanese destroyed multiple US war ships. They also caused thousands of allied deaths and treated POW's terrible. This is why I think this was the right thing for the US to do, to take revenge and damage cities and destroy war factories and force the Japanese into surrendering. I think without dropping the two nuclear bombs the Japanese wouldn't have surrendered causing a lot more allied deaths.

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  1. Do you think there could have been another way for the Americans to demonstrate their power without being so destructive?

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  2. Why do you think the American's needed to drop 2 bombs on the Japanese people? Was there another way they could have brought a end to the war without so much destruction, and if there was another way to end the war what was it?

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  3. I disagree because many casualties had died during the bombing, I think the Americans could have found a less destructive way to bring an end to the war.

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    1. Graham, Matt and Lauren, how do you think the United States could have ended the war in the Pacific? What other ways would be less destructive?

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    2. The allies could have held a meeting and told the axis powers that they had a atomic bomb and that they would use it if the fighting didn't stop. Another thing that could of stopped the fighting was to take away the axis powers allies leaving Germany all alone and an easy target, then the Germans would stop fighting because they had no support.

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    3. Actually, they did that. Since the enemies didn't know what an atomic bomb was America said it was a "super-powered" weapon. The Japanese didn't accept the terms even though they were warned.

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  4. Joel, this is a well-defended argument.

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