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The sources used are a variety of books and academic articles which explain differing reasons on Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb. The sources drawn on also include The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman and his letters to his wife. The publication dates range from 1965 to 2013. As this essay explains alternative factors which influenced Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb, it draws especially on the words of Truman and the words of his Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes. The historian Gar Alperovitz challenges the traditionalist perspective, that the bomb was dropped to end the war without the casualties of a ground invasion, claiming that Truman had political intentions when deciding on using the bomb against Japan. Historians,

Martin Luther King Jr. gave many speeches in his lifetime. Martin Luther King uses persuasive argument in his speeches. One speech to show he did this is the "Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence" speech. In this speech he use Logos and Pathos. Him using these techniques is why everyone loved to listen to him and they just didn't hear him, they listened.

During the long battle of WW2, we were all surprised by the death of our beloved president Roosevelt on April 12th. Quickly we had Truman come into office and within 12 days we asked him for this okay for dropping the bomb. Truman had known about the bomb before hand, but on April 25th Stimson and Truman had the official answer after thinking long and hard what the right decision would be. “Truman and Stimson immediately began to see the diplomatic implications of the bomb...” (2. Walter, “Interview Transcripts: The bomb”) They decided

To fully examine the factors that led to the United States to drop an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, one can look at the event as a result of two major decisions. The first decision concerned the use of newly developed nuclear weapons in lieu of other military techniques to secure a timely Japanese surrender. The second decision was to use several of these weapons instead of only one. Although the Truman administration displayed little hesitation or ambivalence over the decision to use atomic weapons (Walker, 51), it is important to examine what factors contributed to these swift actions.

“Thank God for the Atom Bomb” by Paul Fussell is based on his own experience as a soldier. The essay suggested that Truman’s decision in August 1945 to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was rational. Fussell argued that it doesn’t matter how much speculation there is on something. If you have hands-on experience it can be far more effective. Fussell’s primary aim is persuasive. The primary mode is description.

Although atomic bombs may be seen as a “ruthless annihilation of cities” (Leo Szilard, p. 5), they are also an effective means of war. The use of atomic bombs in war have both position and negative consequences however; Leo Szilard’s “A Petition to the President of the United States” is a successfully articulated article on why he felt atomic bombs should not be used against Japan. Leo Szilard effectively uses pathos and logos to support his position on atomic bombs to the President. He also successfully offers countermeasures that reinforce the negativity surrounding the use of these bombs. While people may disagree with Leo Szilard’s position, his use of pathos and logos makes it a successful article.

As a person, sometimes, is hard to make decision that can change history, it is even harder for the president of the United States. When you are the president and there’s a war occurring you must understand that every decision you make impacts the country in every way. When another country attempts an attack on your country, as a president you need to make the best decision to overcome the attack and to protect every citizen of the country. These are the decisions that President Franklin D Roosevelt had to make it, however, when he passed away, Harry Truman had control power of the country and knew that he had to avenge Pearl Harbor. Before Truman can avenge Pearl Harbor, Albert Einstein endorsed a letter to President Roosevelt alerting him that there was an “extremely powerful bombs of a new type” and that the U.S. should begin a similar research. Eventually, this became the Manhattan Project, discovering nuclear fission as a weapon. In this essay we are going to speak about the decision that Truman made to drop the bomb, some arguments, and the interpretation.

Perhaps the most controversial and heavily scrutinized issue of the twentieth century was President Harry Truman’s decision to unleash atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945. While the sequence of events preceding that fateful summer morning of August 6,1945 are fully understood, the motives behind Truman’s actions are shrouded in controversy. Top military officials publicly denounced the use of such a horrendous weapon, while the obvious advantages to the bomb, traditionalists argue, was a shortened Pacific War. Parallactic views between traditional beliefs and revisionist theories suggest that the issue is still very much unresolved. Why is the issue so hotly debated? Partially because of the overwhelming

Eisenhower’s goal was to explain the necessity of using “the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.” Using nuclear technology for peace instead of destruction without intending to start a war but as a preventative measure and a symbol of strength. Dwight D. Eisenhower says “But the dread secret and the fearful engines of atomic might are not ours alone” applying pathos as his rhetorical strategy by using loaded language and evoking emotions from his audience giving them knowledge that not only our allies, but also our enemies, knew of the power of atomic ammunition. He uses hard evidence as well as logos to gain credibility from his audience, by reminding them and providing evidence that “on July 19, 1945, the United States set off the world’s first atomic explosion”. This showed the importance of the accomplishment in American history. The speech took place in the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

presented with the atom bomb and the history of what Roosevelt had been trying to

Harry S. Truman’s memoirs, Memoirs By Harry S. Truman: 1945 Year of Decisions (1955) provides a valuable insight into the decision to use the bomb and argues from a traditionalist viewpoint. A major influence in Truman’s source is his motive to exonerate himself in history as he “spent most [of] his post-presidential years guarding and constructing his legacy and place in history”. This notion is derived from Truman’s consciousness of history, constructing his memoirs 10 years from the event which was stemmed from his “desire for fair treatment by future historians” and to avoid being titled as the President that inhumanely dropped nuclear weapons on civilians.

Dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a turning point in the world history, and it was a courageous step of the United States on the way to ending the war. On the one hand, there seem to be substantial reasons for dropping the bomb. On the other hand, such a radical step on the side of the United States might be perceived as a means of establishing the world power and promoting the supremacy of the United States.

In 1945 the entire world could have died. The sacrificial freedom and silence by a few would eventually save the American masses. While the decision to develop The Manhattan Project and drop the Atomic bomb on Japan surely ended World War II, there was a huge debate about the overall process and the social implications of allowing such a disastrous event to take place. There was a race to defeat the growing power of Hitler’s Germany, but that is not where the bomb landed. Scientists that had devoted their time to create the bomb felt they should have a voice in how it was used, but they were ignored. President Truman’s Interim Committee, a military General, and a group of scientists could not agree on how to use this new weapon of mass destruction. It was not easy for the opposition or those in favor of dropping the atomic bomb to make the decision of how to use it. It is important to understand the development of the bomb’s creation as well as the ramifications of its use in order to clearly understand both side’s opinion of its effects.

The idea of pathos, logos, and ethos is used throughout all three of the passages it is used in how the first passage uses pathos when astronaut Armstrong expresses a meaningful quote hence using pathos. Then in the second passage, uses logos and pathos to describe if a disaster would have occurred but it did not break out. Finally, the political cartoon shows signs of all three of Logos, Pathos, and Ethos and now let's explain and see how each is used and how it improves, helps the text, and political cartoon.

One of the main language of persuasion that the author used in this editorial was logos. To persuade his reader to believe what the right choice was for dropping the bomb or not, he backed it up with lots of facts and information for both sides. He wanted to make it clear the positives and negatives of both sides by backing up his opinion with the historical facts. He uses several different historical writer’s facts from the war to give the reader the full understanding of what would have happened is the atomic bomb was not dropped. The reasons why Truman were decided after he looked at both options and believed the more American lives would have been saved and the development of the bomb gave the U.S. even more power. Simms states that “It is clear from the record that President Truman was