Analysis Of Thank God For The Atom Bomb By Paul Fussell

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Thank God for the Atom Bomb by Paul Fussell is one of many essay written in favor of the Atom bomb that aided the ending of World War 2 in 1945. Fussells claim was that not only was the bomb necessary to end the war, but the bomb actually saved thousands of lives. Fussell pointed out in his essay that those that opposed the dropping of the Atom Bomb were not of those men going into war and actually fighting. Those people often came from money or some high educational background. They often support the idea that the war was going to end anyway so the dropping of the bomb was extremely unnecessary and killed innocent people. However, as it was stated in the essay that the weeks leading up to the bombing as many as seven thousand soldiers were getting killed or injured every week.. It is known that since the beginning of their empire …show more content…

I also think the people that think the bomb was too much and unnecessary only say that because of the word “bomb”. Those people only think about the people that died from the bomb as opposed to the whole lot. over two million people died worldwide; of those two million people, roughly 226,000 people died from the bomb. That number is very large but I feel pretty certain that those 226,000 people prevented the worldwide total from reaching three …show more content…

The state of humanity is brittle and we need to start learning if we are to continue as the superior species. Wars, as the state we are in now are inevitable and more will happen in my lifetime and probably my children’s as well but that's not to say that's how it has to be. Just because that's how it’s always been doesn't mean that how it must

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