Rebuttal

Rebuttal -since the soviets new the bomb was out and created they could build off of our design and make even better weapons to come. -The Soviet Union was not our enemy at that time. The real enemy was Japan and Nazi Germany. - -they killed 2002 military and civilians; we killed about 140,000 military and civilians. - they attacked a military base that was strictly their target-Pearl Harbor- fort island- Wheeler Air Force Base -Although some citizens were killed, their weapons were designed to kill military desighed targets -it was not about punishing japan, the attack on pearl harbor was an act of war, we were forced into it. Their fore the bomb was made to end the war. But it was not made to be used on cilivains. - And finally it was made to stop the killings of our troops. 3. Fighting back against Japanese brutality: -we had to build a bomb with such mass destruction in order to fight back against the Japanese, who would fight until death, we had to drop the bomb in order to win the war. BUT the bomb was only tested in small procsimities and on scale models. The larger bomb was just calculated and never tested to see how much damage it could do. The bomb could have been made a lot smaller to hit a certain target and NOT innocent civilians. -was the war against japanse civilians? - was the civilians killing our troops? 4. the Japanese did not want to surrender and it was considered a question of honor to defend their homeland: -the leader at the time was Emperor Hirohito and he told his troops if they were to give in they would not be honorable. He never made public annoccements about defeat or about even the thought of losing the war. He did not allow his soldiers to “Give Up” so once again the bomb was abosulutly needed to stop this war. But it could have been made smaller. It could have been a lot more affective it is hit just the bases. - People were told if they did not take an allied soldier with them, they did not deserve to die for the Emperor. - 5. to justify the large expense of the Manhattan project: -The project cost’s over 1 million dollars, it was put to good use by building the bomb, but the project was never theroly finished. There were not enough tests done on the bomb as its actually size used in the dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was tested in small scale sized amounts. We had no idea the power of this bomb because it was very new to us. - If we spent that much money in to the project in the first place it would of made sence that we did more tests. This bomb killed to many civilians and that is not at all what it wsa intended for.
 * 1) warning the soviet union of theUS’s new power:
 * 1) Punish the Japanese for their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor: