1st+Constructive+Speech

This page is for Kelsey Buechler.

As the team of scientists who worked day and night to create the atomic bomb, we strongly disagree on the decision to drop the bomb on Japan. First of all, the creation of this new weapon opened up the world of nuclear power to the world. The moment the atomic bomb hit Japan, we immediately started an atomic-arms race with the Soviet Union. This competition for authority in nuclear warfare allowed another country to experiment and use this weapon in war. They thought the more nuclear weapons you had, the more powerful you were. Therefore, The U.S. and Soviet Union built stock piles of nuclear weapons. However, the atomic bomb contained a power that no one seemed to understand. Using this bomb would create more violence and deaths than ever before. We knew the results the dropping of this powerful bomb would create, and no scientist wanted to see them play out. President Truman in specific didn't know what he was dealing with. Apparently, killing thousands of people didn't seem to bother him. Even though Japan killed many people in the bombing of Pearl Harbor, we killed many more innocent civilians with the atomic bomb. President Truman says, "We have spent 2 billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history- and won". Putting the bomb in the perspective of have gambled 2 billion dollars and won really shows his misunderstanding of the situation. Using violence to end violence was unnecessary and not the right way to handle the current situation our country was in. We could have negotiated and modified the “unconditional surrender” we offered to Japan. Also, Japan was already losing the war. 60 of its cities had already been destroyed from conventional bombing and the home islands were blockaded by American and Soviet Union troops. Just to make things worse for Japan, we dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even if we didn’t use the atomic bomb, Japan would still have lost. Lastly, the creation of the atomic bomb has opened up the pathway to new weapons and ideas to kill more people in war. Hydrogen bombs and missles were just two of the handful of weapons created after the atomic bomb. The scientists who put all their effort into the Manhattan project had no idea that it would be used on millions of people. Out of all, the atomic bomb was a bad move by the U.S. Even though this creation was a scientific breakthrough, nothing has made a bigger impact on the world than the atomic bomb.