We're doing a project on the atomic bomb and I need to write a letter to convince Truman why it would be a bad or good idea to drop the atomic bomb but i need some more pros and cons.I would be writting it like if the bombs hadn't been dropped yet, before he decided to drop them.
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Here is a good article by Gar Alperovitz on the topic of the bombing of Hiroshima:\nhttp://www.commondreams.org/views05/0803-26.htm\n\nGar Alperovitz is THE historian when it comes to Hiroshima. His two best books on the subject are:\nThe Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and\nAtomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam : The Use of the Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation With Soviet Power
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If you agree with the following, send it to your Representative and Senator(s). If you don't agree with all of it, specify what you do agree with when you send them the letter. I hope everyone who reads this will copy this letter and send it to them.\n\nGeorge W. Bush used a recent radio address to denounce the media for disclosing his warrantless wiretaps: "Revealing classified information is illegal, alerts our enemies, and endangers our country." It is illegal to reveal that the federal government is breaking the law? Bush attempted to justify his warrantless wiretaps by invoking a case of two 9/11 hijackers whom the feds failed to trace before the attacks; of course, the justifications were nothing more than transparent excuses to portray himself as "noble in a cause" when he was criminally breaking one of the laws he is supposed to uphold.\n \nIf the judicial branch needs to issue warrants and the like more speedily, then they should do so; it is not necessary to strip people of their rights, the rights that you (and the judges) have sworn to uphold when you swore to uphold the Constitution.\n\nAnd the results of egregious sweeps of alleged "terrorists" is appalling and sickening. Those of Ashcroft alone are utterly disgraceful.\n\n"President" is the title of a servant, not a ruler. If the title is to have respect, it must be earned. Bush apparently thinks that the title is entitlement to do whatever he pleases, and that people who expose his wrongdoings are the criminals, not him. It's time to strip the smug Emperor Bush of his new clothes. \n\nWe are not a democracy, a system of popular vote, not even Congressional vote. We are a Constitutional Republic, a nation of laws -- and certainly not a nation for empire-building, power-seeking figureheads posing as the president of so noble a republic to break its laws and send its young heroes to their death on a false mission in schemes for oil. (It's not Iraq's cinnamon and pickle exports he and his cohorts are after. And obviously it's not bin Laden, either.)\n\nBush has morally raped the mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers of our fallen American heroes and additional thousands of American heroes wounded and maimed. He has sent our heroes on a false mission to kill nearly 100,000 citizens of a foreign country we have no business being in. He has pillaged our treasury. He has made America ugly and hated in the eyes of the civilized world.\n\nCongress folk, I could refer you to a dozen learned authors to read. But you have plenty to read already, and need be reading the pork-laden bills you are passing. The Federal Reserve can only print so much funny money. \n\nHere's a suggestion. Instead of convening a committee, "convene" some learned and intelligent people to make you learned, too: invite them to speak before the entire House, the entire Senate. Listen to these people -- not lobbyists, and, at least for a while, not to each other. I've listed a few names at the end of this letter; they can recommend additional names. For yourselves, call it on-the-job training by people who have time to grow in knowledge and then sit and think about such things. Just because you can't know it all by yourselves is no reason you can't learn from those who know a lot, who know more, who know what you need to know.\n\nYou congress-folk must know by now that you cannot trust what Bush tells you. He can't even hold a town hall meeting without staging it, without filling it with kissy-ups and sycophants. When you have real information instead of Bush's neocon spin doctors, tight-lipped press liason, and media press agents, you can make sage decisions, pass Constitutionally-correct bills, and be the people you should be, the people your constituents want you to be, and as decent a human being as your dogs think you are.\n\nAnd to those who may be thinking "You don't know what it's like ar
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Riot,\nToday we can debate this issue with the aspect of both hindsight and foresight. When Mr. Truman made his decision, he did so knowing only what the possible outcome could be. His view was to save American lives, and I believe he made the only choice he could. Consider, had that event not took place, and the US invaded mainland Japan, the suspected killed in action count was to exceed one million US soldiers. If your father, or grandfather were among those causalities, you would not be here to ask this question. My heart goes out for the Japanese that lost their lives in this event, but thankful that we as a species have not found it within ourselves to use this weapon again!
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Can do, providing that you bung a wedge in the outer envelope.\n\nI live in Harrogate if that is any help.\n\nI would like to be aware as to whether there is any hazard associated with it ie letter bomb, nerve agent etc
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well first off the germans bombed pearl harbor, and no they did not use nukes. you should watch ANIMAL HOUSE it is a great documentary. you will learn a lot.
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For the others who wrote asking for details:\n\nAnyone who remembers anything about World War II, or has studied anything about World War II, will understand and remember that during that war the Japanese developed a way to demoralize the American forces. The Japanese psychological warfare experts developed a message they felt would work.\n\nThey gave their psychological warfare script to their famous broadcaster, "Tokyo Rose," and every day she would broadcast their message packaged in different ways, hoping it would have a negative impact on American GI's morale.\n\nWhat was that demoralizing message?\nIt had three main points:\n   1.. Your President is lying to you.\n   2.. This war is illegal.\n   3.. You cannot win the war.\nDoes this sound familiar???  Is it because of:\n   a.. Tokyo Hillary,\n   Tokyo Harry,\n   Tokyo Teddy\n   Tokyo Nancy,\n   Tokyo Durbin,\n   Tokyo Kerry, who have all learned from the former enemies of our country, and have picked up the same message and are broadcasting it on:\n\n   b..  Tokyo CNN,\n    Tokyo ABC,\n    Tokyo CBS,\n    Tokyo NBC?\n\nThe only difference is that they claim to support our troops...before they demoralize them.  Come to think of it...Tokyo Rose told the American Troops she was on their side, also!
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It would help to know a topic.  Do you have to write on something specific, or anything you like?  Give us more details.  keep in mind that when writing an editorial, you are giving your opinion and you may be surprised/hurt when you get a negative response.
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Consider the following:\n\n1) The US, as it progressed closer and closer to the Japanese islands, faced increasing fanatical and suicidal resistance. The casualties lost by the US armed forces was immense, but even more so was the fervor with which the Japanese cast their lives away, to ultimately no valuable military purpose.\n\n2) Repeated overtures to the Japanese government prior to the drop of the bombs by neutral countries regarding surrender were rejected out of hand by all members of the Japanese government. Also, envoys of the US government in neutral countries, offering negotiating terms, were rebuffed repeatedly.\n\n3) Evaluations of the enemy resistance prior to the bombs led the US to believe that, should the US invade Japan, which would be the last logical step to concluding the Pacific campaign, the US would lose upwards of a million casualties killed and wounded, not to mention the utter destruction of the Japanese culture and people, who were considered by the Japanese war machine as totally expendable.\n\nThe US didn't drop the bomb out-of-hand; repeated warnings and overtures were made to Japan prior to the dropping of the bomb. Weeks before the bomb was dropped, B-29s took several days off bombing Japan and dropped leaflets to the Japanese people, urging them to pressure their government to surrender. These leaflets were dismissed as US propoganda and disregarded.\n\nAfter the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, again the US urged the Japanese government to surrender; these were also summarily rejected. Only after the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, as well as the Nagasaki bombing, did the Japanese finally capitulate.\n\nWhile the bombings were horrific in both physical damage and the human cost, the possible outcome outline above in US and Japanese casualties would be more horrific and reprehensible in the course of human history.
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obviously the effects will be huge, depending on the number of atomic bombs that is used at the worst case scenario the spin of the earth will change because the atomic bombs release so much energy. so earth could fall out of its orbit. 2 things could happen either  an Ice age or everything is going to be melted!\nin this case i don't think anyone would survive, not even president Bush
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all things create was meant to be good.. the atomic bomb was created to stop the war.. however, it had been misused by people.. do you think the knife is a good invention, but people used it to kill... fire too..and water...\n\nif you only look at the bad things.. you will not see any good..\nwhat about trees and flowers and light and snow and four seasons and the food on your table???\n\nyou must have believed in his existence since you put the blame on him...if you think he's crap and non-existence, then you wouldn't have ask this question...
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You might consider starting the paper as a contest to the premise.\n\nWhy does your instructor want you to begin with the supposition that there were failures related to the liberal party?\n\nConsider, instead, of focusing on the positive - the successes of the liberal party (WPA, Hoover Dam, Pentagon, Tennessee Valley Authority etc....)\n\nThen, contrast that with some of the failures - perhaps consider interest rates during the 70's, and the Iran Hostage thing. \n\nThen, try to weigh the benefits against the losses.\n\nIf your instructor is truly interested in your grasp of the facts, you'll do well. If you fail - then perhaps your instructor has some issues.\n\nGood luck. God is on your side.
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I think it was not necessary, but hard for me to say that when U.S. Marines have over 45,000 causalties on Iwa Jima and Okinawa ALONE!  That is 20 times the amount of men and women lost in Iraq, and that is just 4-5 months of battle!\n\nThere were several reasons NOT to drop the bomb.  But President Truman did not want to have 100,000 to 1,000,000 causulaties taking the home islands of Japan, and he felt the need to establish American dominance in the Pacific, so that it did not go to the Russians, like Europe had already started to.\n\nThe Japanese may have surrendered to the USA and Allies without it, but they wanted to put conditions on the surrender.  We demanded u=nconditional surrender and nothing less.  This was a big reason for forcing them to surrender our way. \n\nMany scientists that worked on the Manhattan Project, including Openheimer and Einstein, wanted to detonate the Bomb on an unihabitied island to show Japan what it would do, and then ask them to surrender then.  \n\nThe Japanese military committed more warcrimes and atrocities than the Nazis.  The killed almost as many people, and save the holocaust, which I do not want to diminish in ANY WAY, Japan was involved in rape of Nanking, the Baatan Death March, and the murder and rape of MILLIONS of civilians and thousands of POWs.  One of Doolittles Raiders that was shot down over Tokyo(reference movie Pearl Harbor), was murdered in front of the public by a Japanese General and the General ATE HIS LIVER in front of the crowd!!!  He was hung after the war, but how bad to you have to be to EAT your enemy!??!\n\nMercy may not have been high in the mind of our nation's and allied nation's leaders when it came time to (paraphrase the Gap Band) "Drop the Bomb".
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One copy of a letter from Fred Takahashi to Charles (Ted) Takahashi describing conditions at Minidoka dated August 24, 1942. Available Online At- http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Documents/minidoka.html \n\nOne copy of a personal account of a Japanese Internment Camp written by Reiko Oshima Komoto in March 1997. Available Online At- http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/life.htm
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I would have to say that it would be impossible to know the answer, Pure speculation...however, after reviewing the facts:\n\n1. Japan had made overtures via Sweden of negotiating a peace prior to Hiroshima.\n2. However, they did openly turn down the Potsdam demands for unconditional surrender.\n3. Like you mentionioned, Iow Jima and Okinawa showed their army's determination to fight to the last man, altho it may not have proven that the civilians would've done the same on Japan proper.\n4. The first nuclear detonation did not bring immediate surrender from the Japanese leaders.\n5. By using the bomb, we lost the moral argument after the war that the A-bomb should be controlled and never used.\n6. The bombing of civilians was recognized as barbaric before the war and in the Geneva conventions, and yet the allies began using incendiaries on Dresden, Tokyo causing major firestorms.\n7. By ending the war earlier, we did not give the Soviets a chance to mount an offensive against Japan and create a Soviet Bloc as they did in Europe.\n8.Oppenheimer, Fermi and others considered the alternative, increased American casualties vs ending the war sooner by using the weapons, and they recommended the use of the bombs. There were some scientists who recommended a demonstration to show the Japanese leaders the potential devastation, but they were overrulled.\n\nMy opinion is that we did save Japanese lives that would've exceeded the number killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, vis a vis the continued encendiary bombing of Japanese cities and loss due to "fighting" to the last man mentality that showed at Iwo and Okinawa.\n\nThe number of allied lives saved, i would guess, would be around 200,000, but that's only pulling a number out of the sky...the US stated hundreds of thousands, if not more.
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no it was not necessary. yes, the war could have ended with out the A bomb. The reason for the A bomb was to make other nations aware of the power the U.S. had.
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No, if you study history, you will find that many a president has considered using nuclear weapons at one time or another.  Johnston thought about using them in Vietnam, but didn't.  Kennedy was ready to if the Cuban missile crisis escalated.  Harry and Ike both wondered if they should in Korea the first time.  Thinking about it and actually doing it are two different things.  Besides, I really doubt if they would be allowed.
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Are you kidding?\nThis is the way I see it: There were 300,000 deaths right after Americans dropped those nukes. If those bombs hadn't been dropped Japanese casualties would be numbered by millions, and American casualties by hundreds of thousands.\nSo by doing what was done - Americans actually saved lives, and changed a whole Japanese nation to better.\n\nProve me wrong.