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Bombs Were Dropped World War Ii
1,851 wordsIt is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were almost defeated and ready to surrendering being the first to use it, we adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. " Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during World War II In early August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly yielded the surrender o ...
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Morally Responsible Truman Show
1,202 words... o viding him with an absolutely totalitarian, micro-controlled, repetitive environment. Such an environment reduces the set of possible decisions so that there is only one favourable or acceptable decision (outcome) at any junction. Truman does decide whether to walk down a certain path or not. But when he does decide to walk only one path is available to him. His world is constrained and limited not his actions. Actually, Truman's only choice in the movie leads to an arguably immoral decisi...
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Truman And The Cold War
2,073 wordsTruman and the Cold war Harry S. Truman, the 33 rd president from 1945 - 1953 greatly exaggerated Russias power and scared the U. S. citizens and government into a Cold War and power struggle. After World War II it was inevitable there would be a power struggle, as the two most powerful yet completely different countries, Russia and the US emerged as the world leaders. Russia and the US were allies during the war, but with their entirely different government structures, and the power-hungry Stal...
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Bombs Were Dropped World War Ii
3,340 wordsHiroshima and Nagasaki: The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb In early August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly yielded the surrender of Japan and the end of American involvement in World War II. By 1946 the two bombs caused the death of perhaps as many as 240, 000 Japanese citizens. The popular, or traditional, view that dominated the 1950 s and 60 set forth by President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson was that...
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