House while the White House was under renovation. A White House guard died as he killed one attacker‚ sparing Truman his life. The other attacker was captured. Harry S. Truman made his presidency unforgettable‚ being the only president to drop an atomic bomb. He shaped America’s economy for decades. Harry S. Truman‚ a president who witnessed and was part of some of the most memorable events in U.S history‚ is said to have had a reputation of being an honest and efficient man. Truman was short with
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Harry Truman had to make one of the hardest decisions any President ever had to make. He had to decide whether or not to spare countless American lives at the expense of hundreds of thousands of Japanese and drop the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was his responsibility as the President to protect the US‚ but the death toll in Japan was so horrific that it really makes you wonder if it was worth the killing of all the innocent people‚ many of whom were women and children.
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soul-terrifying effacement that war truly brought. It is written from the view point of a humane physician deeply concerned with the contemporary world. He writes about the Nagasaki bombing from the angle of a participant and he has selected his details with utmost care to communicate the horrors he had witnessed Details of the bombing build an intensity to the final horror- the burning of the dead bodies in an open place. It is quite obvious that blast cause destruction‚ people die and the survivors get
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On August 6th‚ 1945‚ the atomic bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima‚ Japan. The second world war ended only a year after with the surrender after the Hiroshima bombing. Black Rain is a novel that illustrates how the citizens of Hiroshima lived during the time of the war. Shigematsu Shizuma‚ the main character of the novel‚ is someone who didn’t think the opposition had to drop the bomb to end the war. He believes the country was already internally falling apart‚ the atomic bomb killed innocent citizens
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Hiroshima as my primary example of documentation in the Cold War era. Hersey chose to take personal stories as his subject matter‚ using a very balanced but essentially human narration. As the definitive account of the horrors suffered by victims of the atomic bomb‚ Hiroshima maintains its journalistic essence throughout‚ despite dealing with a highly politicised and emotive subject. The only sense you have of John Hersey as anything more than a scribe are the occasional glimpses provided by his vocabulary
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The Bomb That Rapidly Changed The World The atomic bomb is a bomb that rapidly releases energy causing destructive damage through heat. The atomic bomb dropped on Japan was not needed it was an evil act and was unnecessary. It was undoubtedly not required to drop a 4-ton barbaric weapon that is equivalent to 5 million dollars on another country. The United States Military had already launched a sea blockade that consisted of a submarine campaign before the bomb was dropped. It was cutting food
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motionless waiting for a sound. No sound ever came for me‚ the cold then came from the loss of blood‚ it just kept spurting out‚ until no more was left.” These thoughts may have very much been the thoughts of a victim of HIroshima The dropping of the first atomic bomb‚ Hiroshima‚ reportedly killed 78‚150 people‚ leaving 13‚983 missing‚ and 37‚425 injured (Hersey page 81). This end
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Will It Take for the US to Get Serious about Gun Control?" The Guardian. Guardian News and Media‚ 09 Aug. 2012. Web. 24 Sept. 2012. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/09/how-many-killings-serious-about-gun-control>. "The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Total Casualties. Atomicarchive‚ n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2012. http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/MED/med_chp10.shtml
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Japanese Prime Minister and War Minister named Hideki Tojo said that Japan knew that the U.S Navy would definitely grow stronger. (Doc E) So since Japan felt threatened by America’s growing Naval Fleet‚ they felt that it would be best to weakened it by bombing at the source‚ Pearl
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dropped Fat Man onto Nagasaki. These were the first and last times to date that nuclear bombs have been used in wartime. The reason for the atomic bombardment was that America wanted to finish WW2 without having to invading Japan‚ resulting in perhaps less loss of allied lives. They were effective
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