Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Destruction Of The Atomic Bomb

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Secondly, human rights were modified when America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the President of United States, was aware of the destruction the atomic bomb would cause even then he gave orders to drop the bomb on Japan. For example, Albert Einstein - a scientist in America who had successfully made atomic bomb after fleeing Germany - had written in his letter to the US President, Roosevelt that the bomb was very powerful and it will take lives of numerous Japanese (Document 6). This event is similar to Indian Removal Act controversy, in which President Jackson knew beforehand that the Native Americans would lose homelands that their ancestors had occupied for generations but he forced them to go a specially designated area for Indians. Consequently, Roosevelt’s decision killed innumerable Japanese families, impaired countless people due to the radiation and weakened the cordial relations with Japan.

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