Devin's+Week+10

The single greatest achievement in the filed of science in today’s modern era is a tough decision to make. Numerous inventions and discoveries come to mind: jet propulsion, television, the telephone, the light bulb, the polio vaccine. However, the single most devastating achievement, and possibly the most influential, can only be the atomic bomb. Since it’s inception no other weapon has caused so much destruction and devastation in a single blow. The effects of the atomic bomb were incredibly far reaching, and may have even been felt for some time after the initial detonation. To think that the president, one man, could have called for the creation of such a device that would go on to utterly destroy so many lives is unthinkable. The president knew we were at war and knew that many lives would be lost, that’s what goes on in a war, people die. But the people that die during war are supposed to be soldiers, not the innocent people of a city. During his address on the bomb, the president had no regard for these people’s lives and makes no mention of the effects of the bomb, the risk it poses to the American people or any other risky factor that might be involved. The president’s address is flat and bland and seems more like it as meant to make the American people forget about it until the day it dropped.