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How Does President Eisenhowers Use Pathos In Nuclear Weapons

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The Use of Emotion with Nuclear Weapons Persuasion is the use of one or all three of these factors, pathos (emotion), logos (logic), and ethos (authority). Pathos can be very persuasive, by playing on others emotions, so that people will agree with you. Throughout the nuclear age in the late 20th century pathos was used to either support or put an end to nuclear weapons. If people with on the pro side they would say nuclear weapons are necessary, so that we could protect ourselves from our enemies, including the Soviet Union. On the other hand, people against nuclear weapons would use pathos to say that in the long run, nuclear weapons pose a threat to our enemies but also to ourselves. President Eisenhower wrote a speech in 1953, titled, “Atoms for Peace”, which used pathos to explain the proliferation of nuclear weapons, including statements that called for protection. He also explained how these weapons are much more powerful than before, and that we should consider the global consequences before destroying an entire city or country. President Eisenhower is speaking against the concept of nuclear …show more content…

Millions of people died in World War II and he believes the American people deserve this period of peace. This use of pathos and emotion from Eisenhower could also be seen as a political move, so that more people would agree with his policies. For a nation that has been in heated conflict for about half a century, the last thing the American people would want is to go to war again. If Eisenhower is pro peace, then it would seem that the public would support him in every way. “Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the hope and desire for peace”(5). By using the concept of peace as a political move, we now see one of the reasons why he is using persuasion on the American

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