Cold War

At the end of the chapter, Strayer asked his reader whether or not students and historians should make moral judgment about the events and people that we study, and my answer is no. The people and event that has happened is what shapes our society today. There may have been time where certain people should have double check what they wanted to do, but for the most part we learn from out mistakes. While reading about the Cuban Missile crisis, it made me think about how badly the world would have been if everybody involved had shot his nuclear weapons. The world may have been destroyed if that would have happened. Reading about all the nuclear weapons makes me worried about any future wars we maybe involved in the future. Now that everybody has their own nuclear weapons they could decide that they want to be the super country in this world and fire their nuclear weapons. It worries me that all the countries today want to be number one and they want to prove that they are top dog, so I fear for the day that a war might break out again.

            Another think that I couldn’t stop thinking about while reading the reading tonight was whether or not the use of the nuclear bomb on Japan was a good idea. I feel like during the Cuban Missile Crisis people were too afraid to use the nuclear bombs because they didn’t know the consequences. I think the countries used the bombs as a threat but they would never actually use it. When the United States decided to drop the bomb, they showed the world that they were not afraid to use full force when fighting another country. Now that people know what will come of the use of a bomb, they may want to use their bombs and/or nuclear weapons to take control. It really is scary knowing that all these countries today have nuclear weapons to use.