The Atomic Bomb Argumentative Essay

During the late 1930s and early 1940s European countries along with parts of Asia were undergoing World War II. The U.S. had become involved in 1941 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. To help the U.S. they joined Britain, France and the Soviet Union (Allied Powers) to fight against Germany, Italy and Japan (Axis Powers). In the spring of 1945 the Allied Powers had concord and defeated Germany. The next task was to defeat Japan (pacific ocean war). The war in the pacific was filled with death that the U.S.was not prepared for. These battles foreshadowed the invasion of the Japanese mainland. The results would be a tremendous loss for the U.S. The U.S. had to come up with a plan, the atomic bomb.There are many controversies in whether the U.S. should have dropped the bomb. The U.S. did end

but it benefited the whole world. Before the U.S. actually created and used the atomic bomb, the world was racing against an imaginary clock to be the first to use nuclear warfare. “Germany’s nuclear research had faltered. Japan was even further behind. The only country close to keeping pace-surreptitiously- was the Soviet Union”(Roberts 2-3). If the U.S. wanted to be the first they had to act fast. When the bomb had been tested and used on Japan, the race for the rest of the world to catch-up began. About two years after the first U.S atomic bomb drop the Soviet Union had successfully tested there own version of the bomb. To insure that safety of world “both sides settled on a policy of “mutually assured destruction” (MAD), meaning that both would refrain from striking first because each could be obliterated by the other”(4). Later as more countries figured out nuclear warfare The Nuclear Club was created. As countries join they agreed not to fire their weapons on the other members of the club to avoid total annihilation. The atomic bomb dropped on Japan was violent but helped the would create everlasting peace in nuclear