Notes

Arguments:

4) President Truman did not understand at all what was involved. He announced the bombing like this, “We have spent 2 billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history – and won.” To put the atomic bomb as in the perspective of having gambled 2 billion dollars and won, blows things out of proportion. --Kelsey
 * 1)** Would have started an atomic-arms race with the Soviet Union. It would have been more important to keep this from happening then trying to kick Japan out of the war. The Soviet Union would probably have an atomic bomb not long after we discovered it.
 * 2)** Using violence to end violence. Violence would have not been necessary if we had been willing to negotiate.
 * 3)** The creation of the atomic bomb paved a pathway to more dangerous weapons such as the hydrogen bomb and missles. If it weren’t for the atomic bomb, wars would probably not be as bloody and violent as they are today.
 * 5)** It was unnecissary becuase America refused to modify its "unconditional surrender" they offered to Japan.
 * 6)** Japan was already losing. 60 of their cities had already been destroyed from conventional bombing and the home islands were blockaded by American and Soviet Union troops.