The Bombing Of Japan With Nuclear War Heads

On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever. The city went up in flames caused by the immense power equal to about 20,000 tons of TNT. The project was a success. They were an unprecedented assemblage of civilian, and military scientific brain power-brilliant, intense, and young, the people that helped develop the bomb. Unknowingly they came to an isolated mountain setting, known as Los Alamos, New Mexico, to design and build the bomb that would end World War 2, but begin serious controversies concerning its sheer power and destruction. I became interested in this topic because of my interest in science and history. It seemed an

Was it necessary for Truman to drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan in World War II? On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped by a US aircraft on Hiroshima. This atomic bomb was dropped to force Japan into surrender, this bomb alone destroyed Hiroshima and over 90,000 people were instantly killed in the explosion and an additional 100,000 people perished from burns and radiation sickness. On August 9, 1945 only three days later, the second atomic bomb was dropped over Nagasaki resulting in an additional 80,000 casualties of the Japanese population. The people of Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945 soon after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many people opposed to the use of the atomic bombs because people argued that Truman 's decision to use atomic bombs was a barbaric act of cruelty. People also argued that the US government had other ulterior motives to drop the atomic bomb that were necessary for America 's ideals. Necessary motives like presenting The Soviet Union a strong message for the Soviets to watch their step around America. A conventional way of warfare for Japan 's surrender would have costed many more American lives. Truman and others believed that the atomic bomb was necessary to save American lives but also Japanese lives. These actions from President Truman marked the end of the most destructive war in history. The two sources that will used and evaluated in this paper are is The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb by Dennis D. Wainstock (1996)

Even before the outbreak of War, the United States was concerned with a fascist regime in Europe researching in nuclear weapons. In retaliation, the United States began to fund an atomic weapon development program which became known as “The Manhattan Project” led by J. Robert Oppenheimer. Over the next several years, the Manhattan project started obtaining key materials such as Uranium-235 and Plutonium and testing prototypes until they reached a working model (Coroner).

America should not have dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima because the bomb had killed millions of innocent Japanese civilians and just instantly turned them into ash, only a shadow was left of them. If children had went into bomb shelters and survived, they would not live for long because of the radiation scattered throughout the blast radius. Radiation scattered throughout Hiroshima will kill a further billion as a result. Also, they would be made orphans because their parents have been turned into nothing. The atomic bomb was very harsh, flattening all property in blast radius and people will be burnt alive. Japan was already seeking peace to many countries and more than 60 of its cities had been destroyed by conventional bombing, the home islands were being blockaded by the American navy, and the USSR entered the war in Asia by attacking Japanese troops occupying Manchuria. American refusal to modify its “unconditional surrender” demand made the Japanese even put up more resistance. If America demonstrated an explosion over Tokyo harbor would have convinced Japan’s leaders to quit without killing many people and cause them to suffer immense pain. The bomb was very expensive to make and develop. It used 2 billion US dollars to invent and make the atomic bomb. The conventional firebombing would have

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 generation (Rosenberg, n.d). This day marks one of the most controversial in history. While some argue that Truman’s decision to drop the bomb was in America’s best interest, others question the ethics of dropping the most destructive weapon in the history of war on a city filled with innocent civilians (Pavlik 1995).

Imagine this, a day like every other day. It’s August 6th, 1945, the sun is shining, the hum of nearby businesses filling the air and the squeals of children playing in your ears. The busy town square filled with unknowing people. No one prepared for what was to come. Then it came. The American B-29 bomber Enola Gray dropped the world’s first ever deployed atomic bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy,” over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was dropped by parachute and exploded 1,800 feet above the ground. Instantly, 80,000 civilians were killed by the explosion, and tens of thousands were later killed by radiation and their injuries. The blast destroyed more than six square miles of the city and due to the intense heat of the explosion, fires ignited all over the city, consuming Hiroshima and lasting for three days, trapping and killing many of the survivors of the initial blast. 90 percent of the population was wiped out. A mere three days later on August 9th, a second American B-29 bomber dropped a second atomic bomb, “Fat Boy,” on the city of Nagasaki, killing an estimated of 40,000 people. Contradictory to the United States’ “reasons” for dropping the atomic bomb on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, their decision was unjustified and unnecessary.

In 1939, during World War 2, German physicists learned how to split an Uranium atom. Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi knew the dangers of this, and knew they had to tell President Franklin Roosevelt, and warn him of this. Few of the government officials told people of their uneasiness. Because the president still was not aware of this, Albert Einstein decided to write to him. Einstein’s letter urged the development of an atomic research program. Roosevelt didn’t see the necessity for such a project, but decided that he would follow through with the plan, slowly. The project started in late 1941 and was called the Manhattan Project (The Manhattan Project, pars 1-3).

An interview was conducted on a man named Theodore Van Kirk, who was originally the navigator of the aircraft called “Enola Gay” (The Telegram, 1945). Van Kirk explained on August 6, 1945 that Colonel Paul Tibbett’s was under command of the famous B-29 bomber plane which dropped the first atomic bomb used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan to end World War II and begin the Atomic Age (The Telegram, 1945). “The B-29 was a pleasure to fly,” Paul Tibbett’s

In 1945, President Truman had to make one of the toughest decisions a president has ever been faced with. This decision, of course, being whether to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese cities, not drop the bombs at all, or do a demonstration by dropping a bomb in the ocean near Tokyo. Truman eventually chose to drop the atomic bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. This choice to drop the atomic bombs was right because these bombings assisted in slowing the expansion of the Soviet Union, changed the Japanese never-give-up mentality, and prevented the loss of many American and Japanese lives.

I think Truman made a right decision on dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. If he didn't made that decision the war against Japan would have been lasted for another year and the causalities for both side would have been increased. We would have been wasted more money, resources and lives. By the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan; the number of death people was less and it stopped the war and the resources of Japan to fight.

When examining the question of whether or not the atomic bomb should have been used against Japan to conclude the war, it is highly prudent to note that Japan is an eastern country and had very little access to nuclear weaponry of its own. It seems significant that the U.S. which is a western nation chose not to bomb another western power such as Italy or Germany (both of which may have had access to nuclear weaponry at the time), but instead bombed an eastern nation. When one pauses to consider the vast numbers of innocent people who were killed or indelibly injured by the bombing of both of these Japanese

The atomic bombing of Japan was an unjustified decision that many considered was inhumane. Through the use of atomic bombs, many innocents were harmed in one way or another. Berger described the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as "a terrorist act" and that it was "evil". While Berger 's argument was extreme, the U.S. still remains unjustified because they did not know exactly how much damage the bomb would actually cause. Bombing Japan, the U.S. harmed thousands of civilians and displayed the effectiveness of the atomic bomb despite having other options to end the war.

On August 6, 1945, during World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor

World War Two is arguably the most famous war in world history. It is remembered as a very tragic and influential historical event across the globe. Many countries joined the war at different times, but the general start date has been narrowed to the period of time between 1931 and 1939. The war was primarily between two main powers; the Axis nations, consisting of Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan, and the Allied nations, led by Britain and Commonwealth nations, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America. Controversial acts of war were performed on all sides, though one of the most memorable and still debated of these was the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan in the summer of 1945.

In the summer of 1939, Einstein, along with another scientist, Leo Szilard, wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to alert him of the possibility of a Nazi bomb. President Roosevelt could not risk the possibility that Germany might develop an atomic bomb first. The letter is believed to be the key factor that motivated the United States to investigate the development of nuclear weapons. Roosevelt invited Einstein to meet with him and soon after the United States initiated the Manhattan Project.