A.J.+Weel+11

No one could predict the implications of a bomb that utilized the energy from an atom. Sure they could crunch the numbers and find how large the explosion would be, but no one knew how they would feel after the bomb went off. When so many humans die at one time, it affects people in more ways than they could have predicted. I’m sure the scientists who created the bomb prepared themselves for the feelings of remorse that they were sure to feel, but it could not have helped. Many could not justify the use of such a bomb, but they didn’t really have a say in its use. Most people didn’t know about the construction of “the Gadget”. Those that did know of it kept working on it, yet most don’t understand why they did. I believe that they didn’t understand the true implications of such a “Gadget”. Sure they knew how much it could blow up, but did they know what kind of bombs would be made in the future due to the discovery of this kind of weapon? I’d have to say no one could have thought of this.

I.I. Rabi had it right when he justified the use of “the Gadget”. If you can say any justification can be use, this would be the only way to see it, “Treating humans as matter.” Since everything is made of matter, humans are made of matter as well. It would be extremely difficult to justify the use of such a device by saying this. If we were to use this justification, then we could use it with anything. I guess this would be the only way people could think of other human lives if they were going to mass murder them. Sure it was done to save the lives of American people, but we would still have to be crazy to set it off. Even the scientists building the bomb didn’t think they should keep building it. Almost everyone individually wanted to stop production of the bomb when it was found that no other nation was creating one. Yet, for some reason as a group they finished production of the first atomic bomb. It is just the same as every other aspect of life, when a group of people get together we sometimes do things we wouldn’t have done on our own. We often regret our actions, but we can’t take them back no matter how much we would like to.