Some one please help me, I have a 1500 word essay on the pros and cons: President truman and the atom bomb due

Question

I would really appreciate all help and hope it comes fast.

i dont need someone to do it for me dude, I need help with some of the pros and cons i have 898 words... used the thesaurus and extended what I have as much as possible, I only need like 2 more pros and cons but I cannot think of any. If all your going to do is tell me do my own homework don't bother posting it isn't any help. Sorry if I come off a little rude but I need a good grade to go to the Buzz Bakesale.

Answer 1

I won't write your essay but I'll give you a few facts that you can use to build it around.

PROs
1. Given the jap refusal to surrender, exemplified by their fighting to the last man in various Pacific battles, Tarawa, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, the Phillipines there is no reason to believe they would surrender while defending their home islands. The cost in American lives was estimated at over 100,000 to defeat Japan conventionally. That's more than the US has lost in all military actions since, Korea, Vietnam, Granada, Panama. We had already lost about 300,000 lives in WWII.

2. Truman could never justify that many more lives when there was a bomb available that could end the war.

3. The US had spent an enormous amount of money and resources developing the atomic bomb. Not using it to save so many American lives it would have been a crime in itself.

4. Russia had entered the war against Japan. Stalin who was a greater mass murderer than Hitler was seeking to capture Northern Jap islands in the same way he overran Eastern Europe. The USSR would have kept that territory. The bomb ended the war before he could do so.

5. The atom bomb saved Jap lives! How many more Jap civilians would have been killed in another year or two of war.
Millions, no doubt! The US had overwhelming firepower and at that point there was no chance whatever of the war ending in other than our favor.

6. The bomb was a demonstration to Stalin of what he could expect if he pushed West in Europe. The USSR had the largest Army in the world at the time and no hesitance using it
to gain more territory in Europe.

7. After VE-day much of the US armed forces was being readied to be shipped to the Far East for an invasion of Japan. This was a severe blow to the morale of the men and women who had just defeated Germany.

CONs.

1. Now that this war is a dim memory, if its remembered at all, much of the controversy is around whether the US should have used nuclear weapons. Ask yourself, what is 100,000 lives of young Americans worth?
We opened ourselves to criticism later on.

2. There may have been the possibility of a negotiated peace precluding the bomb and an invasion. This would have left the Jap government in place.


I'll let you discuss the ramifications of some sort of negotiated end to the war. Don't forget the USSR in your discussion!

Answer 2

CON:

1. The Uranium bomb dropped on Heroshima was the first time the USA ever used a weapon that had never been tested. There was a big concern that if it did not go off, the enemy might be able to figure out what it was and worst case, reverse engineer it and make their own. It was a gamble.

(The Plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki was tested at Trinity Site so we knew that type would work.)

2. No one knew how much radioactivity would result from using the bombs, how far it would spread, how long it would last. That also was a big gamble.

Answer 3

Pro:
1. The U.S. had suffered the worst casualties of the Pacific War in the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Casualty projections for Operation Olympic (the invasion of Japan) projected over 200,000 more Americans killed in combat and over twice that many wounded.
2. Because the casualty rate in both of those previous battles, anti-war sentiment was beginning to arise in the U.S. homeland. Admiral Nimitz, the theater commander for both battles had received hundreds of "hate mail" letters from the loved ones of those who fell in those battles.
Con:
1. Once it was let out of the "bottle" there was no way to put the "nuclear genie" back in the bottle. We were adding a formidable weapon to our arsenal that, once committed, could not be withdrawn from that arsenal.
2. The use of this weapon might still not convince Japan to surrender because of the concept of "Kokutai" (the National Essence) which was dominated by the will of the Emperor. If "Tenon Heika" (His Majesty, The Emperor) decided to have Japan remain at war, no one could dispute that decision.

Answer 4

Start here. Just be careful of onesided opinions.
http://www.ask.com/web?q=pros+and+cons+of+truman+and+atom+bomb&search=&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir

Answer 5

here is some truth:my father-in-law had managed to acrue enough points to finally come home from the eight air force india as a radio operator aboard the b-17 bombings over germany and he was home by late august,1945 in chicago, when the m.p.s appeared at his parents door with ordrs to take him to an airfield and he had ten minutes to repack his old seabag and put utilities on.he arrived at the old chicago municipal field, where nearly a thousand old dc-3's were parked and over a hundred thousand g.i.'s,sailors and airmen were everywhere, mad as hell because they had won the european war and nobody knew what was going on,even, last minute weddings were taking place near the aircraft,soon,they boarded and all of the planes left, heading west, this was true all over the country, so everyone was given box lunches and milk and turned in to sleep on the floor of the plane.hours later, the co-pilot woke them up and told them, that they are landing at march field, as glendale air field was filled, along with long beach, alameda and san diego.they were all permitted to get out and walk around as all of the planes were being towed to the huge gas trucks. later,they were airborn again and over the water and a captain(pilot), came out to tell them, that they are headed towards the newly captured island of okinawa and they would be told more later, the plane touched down in hawaii to fuel up again,give the men time for a rest break, more box lunches and coffee and soon departed, hours later, the plane landed and the men walked with seabags to a bombed out shuri castle area( it was morning),later in the afternoon, a truck with a speaker drove by and announced that all men will walk to the middle of the newly captured air field and wait, as they approached this, my father-in-law in his diary described a huge sea of men with every typre of shoulder patch and rank insignia that ever existed,he guess at least five hundred thousand men,soon,they gathered closer to this wooden deck, but was still a quarter of a mile away, there were giant speakers everywhere attached to wiring, soon the test blare came on and lots of men were on the stage.the first one to speak was the secretary of war henry stimson as he spoke that 'men, you have all done your duty,but this awfull war is far from over and that is why you are here and this oder comes straight from the top and from this day forward, you are a part of 'the purple project' and we are talking about the invasion of japan and yes, since you have been in the armed forces already, all of you are no longer in the army, navy or air force as your records are being transferred to the marine corps and the two million of you here as of right now will just have to get used to it' and now, i want to introduce to you these other men, they are admirals: nimitz, halsey, turner and the commandant of the corps alexander vandegrift and your newly selected commanding officer of recruit training in general lucien truscott whom was so close to general george patton, then fleet admiral nimitz spoke and described the invasion of which nearly one million americans would die, it will take place on nine different beaches in five waves and will make normandy look like a walk through the park.later all of the men returned back to a sleepless night and the next day, training started, thet trained for eighteen days, then a broadcast came over that a new bomb had been dropped and beer was handed out to everyone, three days later, another bomb had struck and the scuttlebutt was really flying now, within days, japan surrendered and now it was the task of moving all of these men home. the men that wanted to re-enlist could fly home and the men tat wanted out of the armed forces would be taken aboard one of the hundreds of ships offshore .

Answer 6

Sorry but we are not here to do your home work and essays!

Use your own time to research it.

Answer 7

well there were no cons to using it, it saved lives