When the U.S started to fund the Manhattan project (1942). They had no idea what to expect. The Manhattan project to a normal person sounds like a crazy idea. Like come on, your telling me if I spilt an atom and it's going to cause a colossal explosion, more than typical bomb?We'll this was fact to the highest degree. The nuclear bomb was by far the strongest bomb in world by 1945. It was lucky that scientists in Manhattan project didn't blow the United States up.
The reason I take
the stance I do is that Nuclear bombs are just plain terrible. My first beef is
that when you drop a nuke you’re more than likely to kill innocent civilians
(just because of its destructive power) and another thing there is no reason
that the kids who didn’t know who or what U.S is should be wiped out of the face
of existence. It’s really easy if you’re American to make jokes or say we had
to but think about all those poor innocent people just gone, they had lives and
stories. I felt very differently when starting this assignment. I know Japanese
were going to fight till end but I’d rather kill 400,000 soldiers than children
and women. Just think of that happened in Iowa and we were on losing side of
the war. If a nuclear bomb was dropped on Iowa City on a normal day. My mom and
my uncle would die. Now think if you lost family in a nuke. You think nuclear
bombs would appear as much in popular culture if U.S city was attacked. I play
videogames frequently and I have played call of duty modern warfare and
Battlefield 3 what both feature a nuclear explosion going off. I don’t think
that would be “ok” of 9/11 would have been a Nuke going off in New York City.
Ironically when modern warfare 2 came out, it cause an uproar because it had an
Airport shooting and people are very sensitive about a terror act what happen
in an airport setting. It’s hard even to comprehend the number 400,000 let
alone have that many people die. I don’t know what is more terrible the loss in life or that they
didn’t know it was even coming.
Here are a couple
of reasons that nukes didn't have to be dropped. My first reason is that japan was already up
to their neck with U.S troops and with Germany destroyed this would’ve opened
Russia to get a quick land grab and to fight side by side with U.S. The next
reason would be that they could've just simply could've shown it to the Japanese,
I think they would’ve backed off if they would’ve seen a 3 mile wide mushroom
cloud and 11 miles tall mushroom cloud . Another reason is that it cost 24
billion dollars (adjusted for inflation). Think all of schools what could’ve
been built and all the wasted tax payer dollars. Another reason is that this is
America and we should never take the easy way out and using nuclear bomb is the
easy way out. Another reason this is bad is that it kicked off the Cold War and
it caused the world to turn into uncertainty.
It also caused every kid In the 50s to be paranoid that a nuke was going hit
small town, middle of nowhere. Cold War also caused nukes to get more lethal
and there are approximately 4,300 nukes armed and ready to go in a moment’s
notice. The last case I have to make not to drop the bombs is that just think
of 400,000 civilians what died in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. In a blink of an eye
a population worthy 10% of Iowa just gone. They were school teachers, nurses
and children just gone for what, some petty war.
-William Townsend
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