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WWII Symposium- The use of the Atomic bombs was necessary to end WWII __Ten Facts:__
 * 1) The main reason for dropping this bomb was to fastly gain surrender from Japan in Hiroshima.
 * 2) The Atomic bomb added to the insult of injury which ended th war and started the Cold War and the confusion of the Atomic Age.
 * 70,000 of about the 76,000 building in the city were destroyed or damaged.
 * 1) Before the war ended, about 140,000 people were brought to death.
 * 2) The great destruction of the war led to despute for about the next 10 years.
 * 3) Truman was the one who basically threatened Japan to stop surrendering unconditionally, or they would bomb them more.
 * 4) The Catholics in the military conitinued to go along with all the strategies and not so much with their religion.
 * 5) The strength of the universe was compared to twenty thousand tons on TNT, which led to great distruction.
 * 6) Truman never confidentially accepted the order to drop the second bomb.
 * 7) The bomb at Nagasaki wasn't as bad of a destruction than it was in Hiroshima, but was still bad.

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This picture shows the destruction of Hiroshima after the Atomic bomb was dropped. The bomb that was the cause of the disaster, was the first ever atomic bomb used by the combat. As soon as the bomb hit the ground, everything was destroyed and a huge mushroom cloud filled the air and was seen from miles away. This picture was taken after the cloud had dissapeared after a long time. Thousands of buildings were destructed or harshly destroyed. The amount of people that were killed by the bomb has not been an exact answer, but it was certainly too many.

Pastoral Letter on War and Peace (1983)
__National Conference of Catholic Bishops__ From: United States Catholic Conference, Inc., Washington DC //An excerpt://

"As Catholic bishops we write this letter as an exercise of our teaching ministry. The Catholic tradition on war and peace is a long and complex one; it stretches from the Sermon on the Mount to the statements of Pope John Paul II. We wish to explore and explain the resources of the moral-religious teaching and to apply it to specific questions of our day. In doing this we realize, and we want readers of this letter to recognize, that not all statements in this letter have the same moral authority. At times we state universally binding moral principles found in the teaching of the Church; at other times the pastoral letter makes specific applications, observations and recommendations which allow for diversity of opinion on the part of those who assess the factual data of situations differently. However, we expect Catholics to give our moral judgments serious consideration when they are forming their own views on specific problems."

The Catholics were against the making of all of the nuclear weapons that were being procuded consistantly. This is when the National Confercence of Catholic Bishops sent out this letter in 1983 on May 3rd. They wrote it on the moralities that they had, which people may take differently than what they mean. The whole purpose for the letter was to tell about the "profound skepicism" of the using of these weapons. The use of them actually led to talks to reduce the use of them. They wanted to just have the Catholics in the military use the weapons for self-defense ONLY. Peace was a big part to them in life, so they restricted meat from their diets on Fridays.

Announcement of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
Harry S. Truman __From: //Public Papers of the Presidents// (Harry S. Truman, 1946, p. 197-200)__ //August 6, 1945// "Sixteen Hours Ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare."
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In 1945 on August 6th, the statement was released that the US had dropped the bomb in Hiroshima in Japan. Harry said that this bomb was a new way of destruction. Over 70,00 people lost their lives. This is when a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

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