America's Dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima

The pressing question still lingers: Was the United States justified in using the Atomic Bomb against Japan during WWII? World War II stands as the bloodiest and deadliest war of all time. It involved more than thirty countries and resulted in over fifty million civilian and military deaths. It lasted six years, beginning with Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939. As the Allied Powers (mainly the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union) and the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) were

the Atomic Bomb Was Truman actually justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima? The atomic bomb on hiroshima was devastating. It killed thousands of people in the process of finishing the war. Truman and the rest of the country were rushed in finishing the war but didn’t want to lose any more men than they had to. In the writer’s opinion Truman was not justified in dropping the atomic bomb because of how many lives were lost and how inhumane it was to drop the bomb. The dropping of the atomic

The Hiroshima bombings was a crucial point in history that ended World War 2. Different perspectives are important into gaining an understanding of the event during that era. The two sources analysed, one being an interview with Paul Tibbets, a pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and second Yoshikata Kawamoto, a boy in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb had dropped, show both positive and negative impacts on the atomic bomb plummeting in Hiroshima. Ultimately the effects of the Hiroshima

On August 6th and 9th two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings were the first and only time nuclear weaponry has been used in wartime. These bombs were the first of their kind, developed by the United States, Canada and Great Britain under the research development plan codenamed the ‘Manhattan Project. It is an important issue because there is much controversy over whether or not the atomic bombs should’ve been initially been dropped. Many sides

revered American generals, Leahy, Macarthur, and Eisenhower, stated the dropping of the atomic bomb “was not a military necessity.” Japan was already struggling greatly to maintain itself, and they felt that it would fall soon. Leahy even went as far as to say that a continuation of the blockade of Japan and bombings would have been enough to bring Japan to its knees. These generals acknowledged the efficiency of the atomic bomb, but could not reconcile that efficiency to the devastating consequences

attack on Pearl Harbor. America’s outrage over this infamous event brought us into the Second World War with all our might and anger. America’s

Bombing of Hiroshima On August 8th 1945 the first atomic weapon, a fission bomb, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in an attempt to force the Japanese to surrender in World War II (Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 2009). This event exposed the danger of nuclear energy. This massive explosion demolished 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. This was only the beginning though, tens of thousands of innocent people died due to the aftermath of radiation exposure for another

Imagine a leader of a country that has sent a super weapon to a country they are fighting that’s already losing. This bomb kills over 80,000 people and ends the war with this country, and the leader still said that they made the right choice up until their death, about sending the super weapon. Well this actually happened, President Truman ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war. The war has gone on for six years and over sixty-million people had died. Europe had

This is the case with the dropping of the bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the second World War. Most of the American civilians supported the dropping of the bomb until John Hersey wrote the novel Hiroshima. This novel depicted the viewpoint of the Japanese which was never discussed in the before the book. The world had only seen that the bomb had ended the war,

Nearly seventy years later, there is still controversy amongst the atomic bombs that were developed and dropped during World War Two. These atomic bombs would unleash a force of destruction that the world has never yet seen. The Manhattan Project developed these bombs under their distinct codenames, Little Boy and Fat Man. Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima August 6, 1945, resulting in approximately 140,000 Japanese casualties. Three days later after the event occurred, Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki