Essay --

When it come to be publicly adjudge that the United States government planned on using atomic bombs to cope the war against Japan, a throng of scientists who had worked on the atomic bomb for some years, felt the need to protest the idea. Leo Szilard who was a head of the group of scientists came up with a postulation for the president for his associated scientists to look over. In his petition he asked the President to rule that the United States shall not, in the present word form of the war, resort to the use of atomic bombs (Szilard, par. 1). Szilards thoughts mentioned in the petition want the strength and persuasion needed to sway the President that the use of the atomic bomb was uncalled for because of the shortage of facts presented, their poor reasoning found in the writing, and the hardship to communicate the significance that their arguments held in the decision. In the petition Leo Szilard uses pity over and over to try and sway the Presidents conceive of us ing an atomic bomb to fight against Japan. While the argument is persuasive, he used the advantage of the alre...