In Paul Boyer’s paper Exotic Resonances: Hiroshima in American Memory he writes about the history of how we, as American’s, have viewed the tragic event that was the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. His argument starts with the idea that there has been many sites where historical events have taken place and therefore have created a powerful symbolic meaning behind just the name of the place. For example; he uses Carthage as a place that has created the view of Carthaginian Peace, Waterloo
Truman to use atomic weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was no different. Did the U.S. absolutely need to engage in nuclear warfare? Was it morally right to bomb civilians? Did the U.S. ignore jus in bello? Many historians have differentiating views regarding the use of atomic weapons, some arguing that the atomic bombs ended the war while others maintain that the bombings only accelerated Japan’s defeat, which many viewed an an inevitable outcome. The use of atomic weapons on
over, the Baruch Plan was introduced in 1946. It was aimed at averting the nuclear arms race. However, this plan was rejected by the Soviet Union. In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a speech, Atoms for Peace, it led to the International Atomic Energy Agency to be set up in 1957 and was aimed at promoting peaceful uses of nuclear