Sunday, May 31, 2009

Cuban Missile Crisis - How was nuclear war avoided?

I think that this war is avoided because the President of United States was Kennedy. If it wasn't him then the whole event might turn out the other way which has a high possibility of having a war with the Soviets since most of the generals wanted a war. Kennedy used defensive ways instead of offensive ways. Also, because the United States agreed to take back the missiles in Turkey and traded for the ones that the Soviets have in Cuba.

Still, I think the Soviets didn't want a nuclear war too. When the US said they want something before tomorrow, Soviets always give the stuff they want on time. I think a war wouldn't happen if both sides are against it.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Atomic Bomb

At almost the end of World War II, the US threw 2 powerful atomic bombs named "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. These 2 bombs made the 2 cities completely destroyed and made Japan surrender to the Allies. I think doing this is actually good for everybody except the ones who died or the ones who are related to the dead people.

Firstly, war is terrible and will make lots of people die. If US didn't do this then the war will continue and maybe it will cause even more damage, finally one side still have to do a massive damage to make the other side surrender so this should happen as early as possible. I think the US did this is good for themselves and Japan, even though they killed lots of Japanese people, the war has ended. The only bad thing is that there are some people that weren't dead but heavily injured, that made Japan has to spend money and heal them and that will cost a lot.

Japanese people only think that their people died but never thought of what good they have brought. Oil! Although it's not a lot but still there are some that were formed because of those dead people in Japan. Also, I think due to the war, the Japanese somehow hate the US which creates some positive stress and now, they want to surmount them by having better technology and economy which is a very good thing.

In my opinion, what US did was really good. It made Japan a better country now and made lesser people died in World War II by throwing the 2 atomic bombs at Japan. The bad thing is that Japan didn't surrender after the first bomb or the condition would have been better than now..