Selective Use of Evidence

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May 29 , 2009

Selective use of Evidence

Introduction

The events leading to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings by the United States have different meanings to different people . Reading different historical sources , one notes that different authors have given different meanings to the same events that happened in the later months of 1945 . The events that occurred after the bombings also have been given different meanings by the observers who had the chance to be on the ground days after the two

bombings . As such , a conventional reader cannot help questioning whether the authors either had different experiences of the same effect or whether it was a case of selective use of evidence . In this essay , different author 's accounts on the happenings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be evaluated in to prove that authors giving first-hand accounts of events sometimes choose to use evidence selectively in to advance what they believe is right or wrong . Most of the times , this means that history appears different to audiences who hear or read the first hand testimonies

The effects of both Atomic bombs , only three days apart , as written by Fusell (6 , who was a soldier , ready to join the battle field in Japan is that it saved the lives of many soldiers who would otherwise have died in the battlefield . Fussell 's argument is that although the war would have ended eventually , there is no knowing how much longer Japan would have...