...Why America Dropped the Bomb Ronald Takaki Back Bay Books September 1, 1996 Joseph Marty Professor J. Cosco U.S. History Since 1865 November 27, 2011 Throughout the recent years of history, there has been an intense debate justifying the use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima as well as Nagasaki a few days after, but many others argue that it was unjust to use such a weapon of massive catastrophe on an almost defeated nation at the time during the end of World War II: Japan. Ronald Takaki, author of the book Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Bomb was an avid writer in the terms of Asian-America equality and morals based on his own experiences. In this book, he gave many thorough details explaining plausible reasons as to why Truman decided to launch the devastating attack on an already weak Japan. Takaki has used many sources including military reports, personal letters, and self recordings to further expand on this debate based approximately on facts more than moral opinions. When America had already won the war in Europe, there was still one more target left deemed as a threat to society according to the government. That target was Japan. The commander of the Pacific forces at the time was General Douglas Macarthur and he was never consulted about the use of the atomic bomb. Macarthur was only notified two days before the official use of the atomic bomb. The general was very depressed to hear about the use of the bomb because he knew thousands...
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...victims to be right at Ground |http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway_pre_2011| |Zero? |/living_future/4_nuclear_radiation1.shtml | |Working Thesis Statement: Countries may use the nuclear weapons in |Oral Presentation Thesis Statement (must be based on PART of the | |future because of the possibility of religious war and the other |research project): The time between 1946 and 2012, no atomic bomb had| |reasons. |been used even as an overt thread threat in any warpolitical crisis, | |I will argue that there is a strong possibility that nuclear weapons |the reasons … (I will find by researching.) | |will be used in the near future. | | |Will the Bomb Be Used in the Future? | | |Keep it...
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...penicillin, Saved million of people Science is a boon or curse Synopsis: 1 . Introduction 2 . Science in old age 3 . Agriculture field 4 . Man vs nature 5 . Electricity 6 . Medical field 7 . Killer science 8 . Biowar 9 . Conclusion Introduction We are in the age of science and technology. Everything in the universe has its uses and abuses. The same applies to science. Science has revolutionized the human existence. It has made man's life happier and more comfortable. Man cannot live without the aid of science. Science has so much engulfed our lives that nothing can take place in our day to day work without the help of science. There is the other side of the coin also. That science gave birth to destructive weapons like dynamite, guns, rifles, rockets, atom bombs, hydrogen bombs only to destroy people. Science in old age In our olden civilization also there had some science in their daily life. The people used wind mills to lift water from the wells, they used turmeric as it is a good antibiotic , the people guessed the future perfectly without any knowledge , the Tamil poets before...
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...of America’s most valued markets including oil properties. The Patriots were furious and demanded that the US give up their noninterventionist ideals and actively participate in the war. But, Congress still refused to declare war because although misbehavior in Latin America angered the people and although ferocious dictators were rising in the Eastern Hemisphere, the US decided to maintain its isolationist policies that George Washington had proposed in his farewell address. In other words, the US decided to adopt the concept of Storm Cellar Diplomacy. Some frustrated folk like Senator Gerald Nye led a senator committee which sensationalized news items from World War I and put the blame on the United States economic instability. Even with so much pressure, the US was only more adamant and refused to enter the war. They even went as far as to establish Neutrality Acts which while claiming to remain neutral also hinted at the fact that if the President...
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...Korematsu vs. US: Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Japanese relocation in this case 2. Issei: “first”, legally barred from becoming citizens Nissei: American-born children; home of issei that they would reap the full benefits of their birthright by encouraging them to learn English, excel in school, etc. many grew up in 2 worlds 3. War Production Board: through this, American factories pored forth a mass of weapons; halted the production of nonessential items such as passenger cars assigned priorities for transportation and access to raw materials 4. Henry Kaiser: miracle-man shipbuilder; his prodigies of ship construction; one of his ships fully assembled in 14 days 5. Office of Price Admission: brought ascending prices under control with extensive regulations; formed after a crisis of full employment and scarce consumer goods; rationing held down the consumption of critical goods such as meat and butter 6. War Labor Board: imposed ceilings on wage increases; labor unions hated this; there were many labor walkouts (most famous: United Mine Worker); you pay this with overtime pay 7. Smith-Conally Anti Strike Act: authorized when threats of lost production from strikes became extensive; authorized the federal government to seize and operate tied-up industries; strikes against any government-operated industry were made a criminal offense 8. GI: government issue; outfits put on soldiers that were drafted after Pearl harbor; US exempted...
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...Duck and Cover Hist/415 03/03/2014 James Fennessy Duck and Cover There are many questions in today’s society vs. the era of the nuclear bomb. Back during the cold war, it must have been brutal just thinking about a nuclear bomb dropping on us. Imagine being a child, and constantly having the fear of possibly being in the path of a nuclear bomb. The adults were just as afraid and nervous for the lives and those of their children as well. The government was always looking at nuclear weapons and showed its power with the bombing of Hiroshima during August 6, 1945. (Rosenburg, n.d.) With the knowledge that our country has today, and thinking of a nuclear war, no one could imagine living through one in this day and age. However, the threat of the nuclear confrontation is somewhat similar today. A nuclear war is very similar to the threat we see today with terrorism. Both of these threats can lead to a lot of mental issues, economic issues, and political issues. Not to mention the amount of stress of conflict has on the American psyche. The threat of terrorist attacks is immediate, but the nuclear threat does still loom. Although, both are dangerous, terrorists attacks are typically the explosion of buildings, bridges, and other highly populated areas. Nuclear attacks can decimate continents, and wide ranges of area. Terrorist attacks are normally minor compared to the attack of a nuclear weapon. Since the bombing of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, we still suspect...
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...Technology – Boon or Bane? Posted on August 25, 2011by Sumukh Naik Technology is one of the greatest invention of mankind.It is so powerful that it shapes our thinking and our way of life within no time.It is ever evolving.Technology is a tool invented and sharpened by humans to make their life easier.Those who know the correct application of technology, be it any sphere of activity, have managed to make lives easier for themselves and to some extent also for others. I feel the best technological breakthrough was the invention of computers which basically led to further advancement in technology viz the creation of many softwares and hardware. Technology has gifted mankind with various boons but look closely and you will realise that technology have blessed mankind with two very important aspects – facility of communication and creation of time. Creation of phone, fax, paging services, mobile services, video conferencing etc are few of the facilities that the human mind has been able to conceive with the aid of technology.All have played a very important part in making the world a ‘Global Village’. Technology has ensured that one can easily communicate with anyone on land, in air(aeroplanes) or even when the person is under the calm waves of dark deep-sea (submarines). But the Time Creation aspect of technology has now posed a challenge and threat which very few had ever thought of. Computers – They have evolved rapidly at the rate of knots. A few decades ago, a single...
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...Everybody already knew the facts and the statistics and the devastating outcome of August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. But nobody understood or was able to establish some palpable sense of how horrific those moments leading up to the bombing was. In Hiroshima, or at least in the first chapter of John Hersey’s “journalistic masterpiece,” a human face is given to any speculation of what transpired that tragic morning. The first chapter is told through the memories of six survivors: Miss Toshiko Sasaki, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, and the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto. Hersey grants readers the ability to empathize—albeit superficially—with the victims by giving us an account through the perspectives of the actual people who lived through the event. Though I can understand how one can interpret Hersey’s objective tone to be too dry and journalistic, I think the way he masterfully recounts each survivor’s story “makes up” for what may be perceived as indifference. Hersey deftly weaves their poignant narratives through the intimate and meticulous details of that day’s events for each person. In his storytelling, there is a tangible patience as he is intent on the reader absorbing every single action made and thought had by the person being written about and every single feature of the setting the person was in. He depicts the paranoid culture and the day-to-day...
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...have been an inevitable confrontation between the USSR and the US without the Second World War. World War II ended with the US and the USSR as the only remaining world superpowers. The ravaged post WWII Europe provided perfect conditions for imperialism by other countries; the war created two superpowers with polarizing ideals. Due to the defeat of Nazi Germany and the concern over post-war settlements, their alliance broke and the ideals of communism and capitalism turned on each other in an effort to control the influence in Europe. The arguments pertaining to the Cold War being the cause of the Second World War has been going on for a long time and historians can’t seem to agree one perspective. The cold war was, to a certain extent, the result of the Second World War. World War II saw the union of the western democracies and the USSR due to the desire to defeat a common enemy: fascism and Germany. Once the war was over, this interdependency ended as well, and the result was two victorious superpowers with totally different ideologies. The defeat of fascism meant the ideologies of capitalism and communism were left to clash. The US used the atomic bomb on Japan without informing her ally, the USSR. Not only was this lack of contact a problem, but it also marked the start of a deadly new arms race. The USSR developed their own nuclear weapon in 1949 and both nations soon acquired the deadlier hydrogen bomb. There was also a delay of opening a second European front during...
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...During the Second World War, the USSR and the USA, the two great nations in the 1940s united each other to defeat their common enemy, Nazi Germany. Their alliance was however ‘unnatural’ as both countries had conflicting ideologies, capitalism vs. communism and both wanted to spread their power and control in the world. Their incompatible ideologies from the start together with their troubled relationship since 1918 when the west intervened on the Russian civil war on behalf of the White Army, created an uneasy alliance in 1941 that that was most certainly ‘bound to fall apart’ when the common enemy was defeated in 1945. In order to come to a conclusion on the extent to which “An unnatural alliance that was bound to fall apart after the defeat of the common enemy” explains the origin of the cold war the essay will be divided into four parts: the opposed ideologies, events from 1919 to 1945, the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, and events subsequent to the conferences until 1949. The Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 leading to the establishment of the world’s first socialist state whose guiding ideas were those of communism. For the leaders of the western countries these ideas threatened the very basis of their societies, economically and politically, as they followed an ideology of Capitalism. For the USSR, capitalism which revolves around private enterprise was seen as creating divisions between rich and poor and thus the communists believed that all goods should be taken over...
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...The Land of the Rising Sun is famous for top global brands that represent some of today's fastest-growing companies. Among Japan's world-leading brands are Toyota, Honda, Sony and Canon. Read more at Suite101: Japan's Trade Buddies: Top 15 Japanese Export & Import Partners http://www.suite101.com/content/japan-s-trade-buddies-a10157#ixzz1DEYGoPBY The Land of the Rising Sun is famous for top global brands that represent some of today's fastest-growing companies. Among Japan's world-leading brands are Toyota, Honda, Sony and Canon. Read more at Suite101: Japan's Trade Buddies: Top 15 Japanese Export & Import Partners http://www.suite101.com/content/japan-s-trade-buddies-a10157#ixzz1DEYGoPBY USA vs. Japan - Economics & Intercultural Communication Table of contents 1 Introduction....................................................................................1 2 The economy of Japan..................................................................1 3 The economy of the USA...............................................................2 4 Intercultural Communication..........................................................3 5 Conclusion.....................................................................................3 1 Introduction In my paper I want to write about the United States of America and Japan. I will write about the economic backgrounds of the two countries and also write about some typical behaviors that must be mentioned when somebody...
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...Canadian International Council Strengthening the Non-Proliferation Regime: The Role of Coercive Sanctions Author(s): T. V. Paul Source: International Journal, Vol. 51, No. 3, Nuclear Politics (Summer, 1996), pp. 440-465 Published by: Canadian International Council Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40203123 Accessed: 30/11/2010 19:58 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=cic. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Canadian International Councilis collaborating...
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...What do you find most striking/interesting/relevant/significant/innovative about the film and why? Given the lack of advanced of digital technology available to the film industry then, the way special effects were created was through a synthesis of camera work and the use of props. The low budget of the film had compelled them to use props consisting of condoms, oatmeal etc. together with filming techniques to replicate certain scenes like the tunnels or the heat-ray effect. These innovative methods of mixing prop-use and camera tricks, have mostly been replaced by digital technology. Poor representations of what we would come to expect of advanced technology, these special effects back then would have been the acceptable visual standard of portraying the scientific fantasies of the 1950s era. These different special-effects standards notwithstanding, the genre-function of science-fiction is to represent a sort of fantasy with hyper-real elements, while concurrently being a parody of contemporary issues. Hence, with the normative expectations of that genre in mind, it is interesting to see how cinematic expectations have changed, for example, to see how boiled-oatmeal coupled with camera tricks could pass off as a heat-ray’s effect then. However, a judgment regarding the proximity to reality between past and present visual effects can be passed while avoiding anachronisms. Hence, where hyper-real elements – successful exaggerations of reality where representation fades into...
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...war against terrorism, like the struggle against Communism, defines the enemy as a worldwide conspiracy…with operatives infiltrating the United States.” In both wars, America was not just fighting a group of people; America was also fighting an idea. In the Cold war, America was fighting of Communism. The USA believed they were truly free, and that in order for other countries to be truly free they had to embrace capitalism and consumerism. America tried to spread capitalism to Vietnam and Korea by fighting in those countries, similarly to how America tried to bring Democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan. In the War on Terrorism, the idea that America was fighting was the idea of Terrorism. America was fighting a group of people who hated us because we were free. Their reasoning for disliking the American way was similar to the Communists’ reasons; their tactics and numbers were much different. There were still some differences between the Cold War and the War on Terror. The war on terror was on a much smaller scale than the Cold War....
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...Science and Technology Consider: * Science and its impact on society * Scientific developments & effect on man; environment etc. * The Sciences VS the Humanities * Science & Religion Definitions: * Science - study of nature and the knowledge we gain through observations and experiments * Scientific discovery - finding out about something about the existing workings of nature that was not known before * Technology - application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes (e.g. antibiotics and their uses) * Invention - newly created product/process Science today causes as many problems as it solves. * Horrible pervasions of science * E.g. Invention of poison gas (holocaust), war against Japan ended with the atomic bomb * Even when science is intended to benefit humans, unintended consequences could occur. * E.g. Rachel carson's silent spring (1963) awakened the world to the dangers of pollution * How science in the service of business can produce catastrophic results ; pesticides for farms -> Are we blinded by profit so much so we don't do not care about the environment? * *air pollution is the biggest cause of human deaths today Science, money and value * Science is very much subservient to business interest today -> values of those who seek fame and fortune creep into science: profit often determines the direction of science, influencing the choice of problem investigated by scientists ...
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