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Paper Instructions:

Please read the instructions for this assignment carefully. Be sure that you focus on the question being asked throughout your paper. The format for all papers in this course should be 12 point font (Times New Roman or similar), double-spaced, with 1-point margins all around. If you include citations in the text, then a works cited page should be included. If a cover page or works cited page are included, they do not count toward the page total. Include quotes!

Paper Topic

Choose one of the following topics for your essay:

1. Given the massive destruction - fire bombings and genocide, for example - which had become the norm by 1945, was Truman right to consider the atomic bomb just another "military weapon"? Or were the scientists who petitioned the president correct in their assertion that this was a "new means of destruction," which required more restraint and a heavier moral responsibility than existing types of warfare? 

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2. To what extent was the Holocaust a collective crime? Where should the line of guilt have been drawn - with the Nazi leadership? Nazi party members? The German people? Europeans in general? Nations which could have bombed the death camps, but did not?