The Bomb Debate

Against the Atomic Bombing of 1945

The United States should not have used the atomic bomb to stop the Japanese militaristic threat during World War II , seeing that it was unnecessary to cause untold suffering unto hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki . Seeing that the United States is nowadays a champion of nuclear warming , it would be ironical if the nation would continue to agree with the logic of using an atomic bomb to end war . Certainly , the atomic bombs used during World War II - Little Boy (especially named

for Hiroshima , and Fat Boy (detonated in Nagasaki three days after the Hiroshima bombing ) - were deadly , to say the least The bombs used by the United States served to terrify the Japanese people , and therefore ended the war quicker than previously believed However , today the United States knows that the cost that was paid by the Japanese people at the expense of a war , was humungous . It should not have happened . What if it happens in our homeland ? The photographs that have arrived from Hiroshima and Nagasaki are enough to convince us that the bombing was actually unnecessary (See Appendix . If Mr . Truman were to be asked his opinion today , he might agree , although he might add that it was necessary to check the potency of those bombs for the world to stop using them altogether

While it is a fact that the world has stopped using atomic bombs after the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombing , it remains true that it was unnecessary to use the atomic bombs in the first place . It was unnecessary because we knew all along that those bombs are powerfully dangerous . Indeed , the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings were a crime against humanity . Needless to say , it is essential to stop such crimes Thankfully , still , the U .S . has realized its mistakes and today acts a spokesperson for `freedom from nuclear proliferation and explosions which Mr . Truman had thought were actually equivalent to the harnessing of universal energies , if not the powers of God , as of the Big Bang . At the same time as the atomic bombing of 1945 acted as a revolution for humanity , and the marriage between technology and human beings - it was a terrible ' disaster . In the words of the then-unapologetic Mr Truman , the extent of the disaster was also expected

We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world . It may be the fire

destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era , after Noah and his fabulous Ark

Anyway we "think " we have found the way to cause a disintegration of the atom . An

experiment in the New Mexico desert was startling - to put it mildly . Thirteen pounds of the

explosive caused the complete disintegration of a steel tower 60 feet high , created a crater 6

feet deep and 1 ,200 feet in diameter , knocked over a steel tower 1 /2 mile away and knocked

men down 10 ,000 yards away . The explosion was visible for more than 200 miles and...