There are many advantages as well as disadvantages to launching a preemptive military strike. The advantages of a preemptive military strike are; to use this as a scare tactic, to portray that the United States is willing to use force. Therefore, will boost the United Sates’ power, as follows reinforcing their reputation. Aforementioned, after reaching to the top, this will urge them to succumb. An example of a comparable case, is when the United States dropped a bomb on two cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place in 1945, after Japan deliberately kept on fighting and did not stop. The exact situation we are in. In addition, to strike their nuclear factory or lab to stop furthermore development of weapons, which will decrease their number of nuclear weapons and deter their ability to strike back. For this reason, they will be in for a very …show more content…
The advantages of the withdrawal from the Korean Peninsula are; this will allow the United States to use their time, money, and effort somewhere else rather than putting in effort and not getting anything in response. Whereas, they can use that money and military troops to invest in their own security and to improve their nation. The disadvantages of the withdrawal from the Korean Peninsula are; by withdrawing, this way the United States grant North Korea to endure with their nuclear program. This will be a possibility that North Korea will sell their nuclear weapons, and might settle in the hands of rebellious countries or terrorists. Nevertheless, this action could be seen as a symbol of weakness, especially in the eyes of North Korea. Which will make them believe that they are robust than the United States. Withdrawing from the Korean peninsula will leave behind their border countries making them defend themselves, will motivate them to utilize their own nuclear program considering the feelings of
South Korea didn’t want to be a contribution to communism, where North Korea believed that communism was the solution to all problems. This invasion caused and all out war the involved many other countries like Russia and the US. As stated in “Document C”, Russia’s job was to help North Korea and promote their communists government, where the US was there to help South Korea promote their capitalism. Several years after continuously fighting on whether Korea should have a communist or capitalists government, the war finally ended. The country is still divided today and North Korea still remains communists leaving the US failing to stop communism.
Imagine being put in a predicament whereby you have to make a crucial decision, either by dropping bombs to save countless lives or to let the enemy proceed on brutally killing thousands more…What would you do? Quite frankly I feel that the answer is a “no brainer!” Harry Truman’s decision, the president of the US, on dropping atomic bombs upon Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. Japan was the one who first attacked the American Pearl harbour, and up until this time America was completely neutral during the war.
I believe that America should delay armed conflict until prepared for warfare because of America’s weakened economy and military. Jefferson’s Embargo Act of 1807 crippled the economy when it confined all US ships to harbor in an attempt to deny France and Great Britain agricultural and manufactured products. Instead of harming Britain and France, this act hurt America’s economy, leaving thousands unemployed. By preventing trade, the heart of our economy was halted and caused a recession. Even after the Embargo Act was repealed and replaced with the Non-Intercourse Act and then Macon’s Bill #2, Americans are penniless with the destruction of commerce from embargoes.
Massive Retaliation is the threat of using nuclear weapons against the Soviets if they tried to seize a country not occupied by them and/or tried to expand there country by force. While Brinkmanship was the threat of using nuclear weapons to get an opposing country to back down/consed, Eisenhower used these effectively in the Korean war but there were saw as too dangerous. He used these to easily dispose of the Korean threat by threatening the use of nukes, and all the while, kept communism from spreading into Korea.
As the Korean war was going on, the US’ presidential election was also coming closer, and before long, it was about time to elect a new president. One of the running candidates was a republican named Dwight D. Eisenhower. During his campaign, Eisenhower often criticized the US government’s handling of the Korean war, especially its inability to end the conflict between North and South Korea. Because of his criticism, on October 24, 1952, US president Truman challenged Eisenhower to find his own alternative solution. And in response, Eisenhower announced that if he were to get elected as president, he would go to Korea and handle the situation himself.
“We all say not war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won’t be the case"-by Silvio Bersuconi. This quote was said by former Italian Prime Minister who spoke about war.
Efforts that able to do is to reduce the world's nuclear stockpile and change nuclear into energy that makes beneficial to society. The program from Republican Party is called Nuclear Forces and Missile Defense Imperiled aims to protect the safety of American citizens from terrorist and nuclear attacks. This is a terrible case of nuclear war because the nuclear defense in America is weak. Government must always be wary of competing countries such as Russia and China that have a great nuclear power. Not only from that country, threats and other dangers possible attack also come from other places such as Iran and North Korea that are currently developing a nuclear
The art of fear is essential in nuclear deterrence. Using the film Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) I will argue that nuclear deterrence is hard to achieve when communication of nuclear capabilities is not well established amongst states. In this paper, I will use the film Dr. Strangelove (1964) to argue how theories such as deterrence theory, realist theory, security dilemma, preventative war, pre-emptive war as well as relative gains and zero sum game led to a failure to achieve nuclear deterrence between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. To make my argument on how more nuclear weapons may hinder deterrence, this essay will proceed as follows; I will firstly discuss the how nuclear deterrence and mutually
The Allies could've made clear that the Japanese imperial family could retain power in post-war. The Japanese military fought on despite the hopeless situation for the honor of defending the emperor. Even after the atomic bombings, Emperor Hirohito told Prince Asaka that he was determined to continue the war if the sovereignty of the Japanese imperial family could not be preserved. Wouldn't it have been better to discuss the imperial family's post-war immunity before using nukes. The main argument for using nukes at the time was to bring complete unconditional surrender.
As an American, we cannot comprehend the types of laws that are enforced upon North Korean Citizens. A few bizarre controlment rules that I still struggle to comprehend myself are there are only twenty-eight ways North Korean men and women can cut their hair, North Korean Men and Women are not allowed to own a bible or any western literature, and also there are only three channels on tv and you must only watch those. Along with those laws in place, the North Korean government has control over education and news which leads to many growing up to hate other countries besides their own with no reasoning behind their hatred. Our lives along with many others are still being affected by the iron grip of societal norms.
Grace Fullenkamp Ms. Yane AP Lang March 14, 2018 The Korean War The Korean War was not a conflict in which the United States needed to be involved as to its horrific outcome is testament. Yet, in the 1950s, the U.S. thought it was believed that the only way to stop the spread of communism was to fight back against the potential formation of communist governments. When war broke out in Korea, it became a place for the United States to make a statement against communism on a global front joining with South Korea to combat the communist North.
The Cold War was the war against the United States and the Soviet Union and their alliances that chose sides throughout the war. This started because of United States making a nuclear bombs and the Soviet Union trying to spread communism. Although the Soviet Union started the Space Race and started the spread communism ultimately the United States is to blame for the Cold War because they were good with communism for selfish reasons, started the Arms race and, built alliances for themselves first. (document f for the last reason)
This document conveys that the Japanese wouldn’t back down after multiple warnings, instead they were getting stronger, and therefore the atomic bombs were justified because they were given fair warnings that they did not take it
And analyzing the situation of the Korean War and the Cold War, the main purpose and cause of the war seem to be to make democracy the dominant system and stop the spread of communism. As mentioned before, President Truman and other democratic countries believed that democracy was the right path in running a country. Therefore, securing democracy in the Korean peninsula would allow for democracy to be one step ahead over communism. The role of democracy was truly seen post Korean
However what these sceptics don 't realize is that the use of the atomic bomb not only helped end the war, but facilitated the dominance of the United States that the Japanese finally gave in to. In the section titled, NOTES OF THE INTERIM