Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Nuclear Warfare

This post is a little late but these things happen.

I was in high school when I studied World War 2 because World War 2 was included in the World History class which was required for graduating, so everyone in my school had to study it. Because WW2 was a world changing event, I'm sure everyone studies the subject even if it's very little. In American, however, we are asked "Was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the right thing to do?" and the general feeling in America is that it was not the right thing to do, but there are a lot of people that would say that it was required at the time to finish the war.

I think that war involves changing the way you're thinking in order to get through the times ahead of you, so when you're not in a war, dropping bombs is the wrong thing to do no matter the case but when you are in a war, dropping bombs on people is a daily event. The same emotions exist when it happens but during war you have to put those emotions aside to finish the task at hand. Putting myself in the position of America at the time when the war was just coming to a close and then suddenly a new war was about to start with Japan I can see how dropping a couple bombs to make the point that the war is over seems like a good idea.

I personally don't think wars should ever happen in this modern age and the only reason we have them is because only some countries are modern and those that are not will have issues with those that are either because of them interfering with the rest of the world or not helping them become modern.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks a lot! One of the things I find interesting what you have written (and it's a point that come up in class the other day) is how often the experiences of members of our class don't fit into "Japanese" vs. "non-Japanese" stereotypes.

    What has happened between the two Koreas is forcing me to think more about war than I would like to. I guess I'd prefer to think about it as a historical artifact or something happening in a distant land . . . not as something that might blow up in the part of the world I live in.

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