What Does George Orwell Use Of Nuclear Weapons

Orwell makes effective use of the Tolman approach of logical argumentation to support his claim about Democratic and tyrannical weaponry. The essay’s thesis states, “the discovery of the atomic bomb, so far from reversing history, will simply intensify the trends which have been apparent for a dozen years past” and he proceeds to elaborate on the role of weaponry. Citing the historical relationship between weaponry and societal power as his grounds for argumentation, Orwell employs analogous argumentation and deduction reasoning for his respectively aforementioned warrants. He cites historical examples of cheap and simple weaponry used with success against a more powerful foe as backing for his warrant on Democratic weapons, “The great age

Orwell affirms this stance, “in 1939, there were only five states capable of waging war on the grand scale, and now (in 1945) there are only three - ultimately, perhaps, only two” (Orwell). Orwell constructs the analogy of atomic weapons to complex dominant weapons and combines these warrants to persuade his audience to oppose atomic weapons and elitist oppression of the masses. He concludes by suggesting these weapons may be used to subvert democracy with slavery and craft an oppressive oligarchical regime (Orwell). In addition to previous ethical and pathetic appeals on the dangers of dominate atomic weapons, Orwell contextualizes his two main arguments by suggesting that the possessors of atomic weapons will abuse the power of dominant weapons. No answer exists for these weapons from the helpless populace and thus no rebellion or conflict can transpire. Orwell’s argument ignores the valuable notion of military strategy. How can such dominant weapons be used if the enemy employs tactics to strike at it’s weaknesses. He fails to qualify that weapons do not singularly determine a battle’s victor because first the battle must actually be