Why Bikini Atoll Should Be Bombed

Many people know what it feels like for one action or event to change the whole course of a day, a year, or maybe your whole life. The book The Bomb, by Theodore Taylor, is set on a Pacific Island called Bikini Atoll. During World War II, the Americans took over the atoll from the Japanese, who were in control at the time. The main character, Sorry Rinamu, is grateful for being freed by the Americans. However, after the war, the Americans wanted to test another Atomic Bomb, and they chose to test it for research at Bikini Atoll. The conflict that drives the plot is that Sorry tries to stop the Americans from testing the bomb on his home (person vs society). The two primary ways it generates the plot are when most islanders agree to have their atoll taken away by the Americans and when Sorry gets the radical idea to stop the test from happening from his uncle, Abram Rinamu.

On August 6, 1945, the United states have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan city of Hiroshima and three days after The United States have dropped the second bomb on Japan city of Nagasaki to end World War II. The United States should not have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II because it was inhumane, unnecessary, and brutal.

They shouldn’t have used bombs on Japan because of course those bombs had killed many innocent people that didn’t deserve it. It was cruel to do the same just for revenge. Those bombs that were used on Japan had taken innocent lives of people who lived within the areas that the people

One of the major reasons the bombs were a military necessity was that they stopped

The United States absolutely did the right thing when they dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If they had decided to do a land invasion the death toll would be much higher than the victims of the two bombs, with much more catastrophe. There is a lot of evidence that conveys the many pros of dropping the bomb instead of a land invasion.

Two thousand four hundred and three Americans were killed and one thousand one hundred and seventy eight were wounded on the early morning of December 7, 1941; when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (Pearl Harbor Statistics 1). The dropping of the atomic bomb was a reasonable reaction to the atrocities, including the bombing of Pearl Harbor, committed by Japan to many countries. A man named Marine Corporal E.C Nightingale was on the USS Arizona when the Japanese attacked. “The bodies of the dead were thick, and badly burned men were heading for the quarterdeck, only to fall apparently dead or badly wounded. The Major and I went between No. 3 and No. 4 turret to the starboard side and found Lieutenant Commander Fuqua ordering the men over the side and assisting the wounded. Charred bodies were everywhere” (Eyewhitness to History 1). Not only did the Japanese leave the beaches and people of Hawaii in ruins, they have also taken many POWs, especially during WWII, and treated them

Another reason which justifies that America should have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan is that America felt that it was essential to get revenge on the attack of Pearl Harbor caused by Japan. For example, the manifestation made in a U.S propaganda poster, which displays uncle Sam and text that says “Avenge Pearl Harbor” and “Our bullets will do it”(Document A), is that getting revenge on Japan would show patriotism since it provided safety and security for the people living in America. Moreover, getting revenge on Japan was one way in which America showed Japan that American lives matter and are not to be messed

could have seen the bomb, it might have been enough to convince them of the foolishness of

we warned the Japanese ahead of time to clear the military base at Hiroshima of people,

Another reason that the bomb’s use was unjustified was that the U.S. made aware that Japan was on the verge of surrender. Japan had been blockaded by the navy and had been continuously bombed. Cities such as Tokyo were decimated and thousands of

The U.S. should have dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the bomb brought the cruel war to an end quicker than it would have been without it. 50 to over 80 million lives were taken during the war and the numbers would have continued growing if it hadn't been dropped. It was up to President Harry S. Truman to decide whether or not they should drop the bomb. When defending his decision to drop it he says, “But we knew that our enemies were on the search for it. We now know how close they were to finding it. And we know the disaster which would come to this nation...to all civilizations, if they had found it first....” President Truman believed that if the U.S. did not use the bomb first then the Japanese would have. The U.S. used the Atomic

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.

Do you think that the united states should conduct nuclear bomb tests at Bikini Atoll? There are some people that wants to test the nuclear bomb at bikini atoll and some does not want to test nuclear bombs at bikini atoll.Bikini Atoll was unnecessarily bombed by the United States and the land, the ocean and the people had their lives destroyed.

How could one country destroy the land and lifestyle of another in the name of peace? In August 1945, United States dropped two nuclear weapons in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 120,000 people immediately get killed this also led to the end of World War II. During 1946 and 1958 at seven test sites in Bikini Atoll on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air and underwater, United States conducted a series of 23 nuclear devices, it was named the “Operation Crossroads”. The United States should not have conducted nuclear bomb tests at Bikini Atoll which had caused the relocation of its inhabitants, the radiation poisoning of the land and the effects of radiation on the surrounding ocean.

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.