The Debate

The debate over whether or not the United States used their actions in Japan to intimidate the Soviet Union is a tough one to argue, but I think my team did a very good job understanding and researching the prompt. I did however get some very interesting things out of our debate from the opposition, for example some points that they had brought up was, that the United States dropped two atomic bobs, to save lives...I can believe that Japan would not give up, but to drop two bombs, within a few days? That seems a little far, to kill so many people with not much of a notice, but the opposition also noted that the US had distributed flyers saying that evacuations were needed...but why evacuate a city? Yes, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were industrial cities and yes they had military personnel, but the citizen to soldier ratio was 5-6 citizens for every 1 soldier. Could they not have dropped the bomb on a more militarized area if they want to cripple/scare the military leaders? Well, this is all in the past and we can't change that...But we can change the way we perceive it.