the United States of America, was in peace negotiations with the United Kingdom, China, and Japan trying to end World War II. The Potsdam Declaration which called for Japan’s immediate surrender and peace terms was rejected by Japan . Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson felt that it was appropriate to use the United States’ new atomic bomb to end the war quickly and secure the US’s dominant place in the world . Whether or not, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified remains in debate up
Bomb In discussions of the end of World War II, one controversial issue has been whether the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki should have been dropped. On the one hand, In his polemic essay, Thank God for the Atom, Paul Fussell argues that the atomic bombs were a necessary evil to end the war quickly. On the other hand, Michael Walzer in his response to Fussell's essay, contends that the bombs were an act of terrorism and immoral. I agree that the war needed to come to an end somehow but the
Write an essay in which you explore the interplay of the personal and the political in After the Bomb. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 exposed capabilities held by influential political powers, and humanity as a whole, previously thought unattainable. It unveiled man’s capacity for destruction, and highlighted the motives held by the political powers in doing so - the end justifies the means. John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1963), Robert Wise’s
In the Noh play Izutsu by Zeami (1363-1443) Buddhist concepts play a clear role in the poetic content of the text. In this poetry, the Buddhist philosophical concepts of material impermanence, human suffering (dukkha), and the unification of the spiritual self with the cosmos, appear throughout. These concepts also appear in the written words of Zen practitioners, whose poetry provides a window into the deeper Buddhist significance of the text. Buddhist doctrine begins with the diagnosis and cure