Case Analysis Madeleine Vasquez California State University Long Beach Dr. John Zheng Wang October 31‚ 2016 Background The New York bombing happened on Saturday‚ September 17‚ 2016. The explosion began at around eight-thirty in the evening at West Twenty-Third Street and Sixth Avenue in Chelsea‚ Manhattan. Twenty-nine people were left injured during the explosion and were sent to hospitals until being released the next day on Sunday. The person suspected of this explosion is Ahmad Khan Rahami
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Logann Stambaugh Mrs. Kohn English II 24 March 2014 Final Copy Atomic Bombing The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still considered two of the most devastating bombings ever seen in mankind. There is uncertainty over the rationality and judgment of President Truman’s reasons for releasing the bombs‚ as well as the thought process on the mortality of the situation. However‚ there is no doubt that this was a difficult decision to make. The United States is still paying for this cataclysmic
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The atomic bomb is the most destructive weapon that has ever been used‚ so deadly it has never been used after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was not necessary to drop the bomb on these cities as there were many other ways that they could have made Japan surrender without dropping/developing the atomic bomb.However many believe that the atomic bomb should have been dropped on Japan so that the casualties could have been minimized for the allies. The United States had made 2 bombs to decimate
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Can the bombing of Dresden be justified? Dresden was Germanys 7th largest city at the time of the war. Historically‚ Dresden had been northern Germany’s cultural centre – a city filled with museums and historic buildings. The Frauenkirche Cathedral was one of the world’s famous buildings. Dresden was also an extremely important industrial area‚ which was something that the allies really did not want‚ but before February 1945 Dresden was a peaceful country and there were not any threats from the
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decision? In the seven long decades since the decision was made to bomb Hiroshima‚ much has been written both defending and attacking it. With all the information given‚ this paper should present an argument that the atomic bombings of Japan were wrong. The “wrongness” of the bombing of Hiroshima can be approached from a few different ways. One reason why I am against it is because I feel there were other things that could have been done that were less intrusive than an atomic bomb. Secondly‚ I argue
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On May 7th Germany had surrendered unconditionally but the war with Japan raged on in the pacific. The Americans were war weary. They had seen the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ Kamikaze attacks‚ and horrible casualties in Okinawa and Iwo Jima. There had been reports on things like the Bataan death march. Newspaper photos had shown American POWs beheaded by Japanese soldiers. Ending the war and preventing further loss of life is all that mattered at this point. With the surrender of Germany at the beginning
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the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to push Japan to surrender. The bombing was unjustified because the U.S. Army:(1) targeted heavily populated civilian cities‚ (2) deliberately planned their attack to kill‚ (3) did not give Japan enough time to respond‚ (4) did not experience as many casualties than Japan. Many say that the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima was unjustified because the U.S. targeted cities that were populated by civilians. According to the notes
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murdered and were not given sufficient time to surrender from the area. Consequently‚ the Japanese were defeated before and they were attempting to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the unsuccessful bombing with conventional weapons. This would be the reason that the bombing was not useful. Physicist Leo Szilard came up with a petition to give to President Truman that was in disagreement that as scientific men‚ they have no proprietary privileges. Therefore‚ it is true that they are
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The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. These two events represent the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. Following a firebombing campaign that destroyed many Japanese cities‚ the Allies prepared for a costly invasion of Japan. The war in Europe ended when Nazi Germany signed its instrument of surrender on 8 May‚ but the Pacific War continued. Together with the United Kingdom
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the war was still going strong and Japan wasn’t showing no sign of surrender. The war was costing a lot of American lives‚ the end was nowhere near‚ and Japan citizen were loyal to their Emperor and the war. So‚ I would be explaining why I think bombing Hiroshima with was the right thing to do to end World War II. The US was entering its third year in the
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