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Topics on the Bombing Of Hiroshima

Topics on the Bombing Of Hiroshima

At 8:15am on August 6, 1945, approximately 300 to 500 feet above the highly populated city of Hiroshima Japan, the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was detonated. Only minutes later 60,000 to 100,000 people were dead, most were vaporized leaving only an eerie shadow of carbon behind. In the year and months that followed hundreds of thousands of people died of radiation poisoning and radiation provoked disease. Children born in months immediately following the bombing were occasionally born without vital organs or limbs. Was the decision to drop this historical bomb a correct one? Could it have been avoided?

What were the alternatives, were they more moral then drooping this super weapon?

After the end of the war in Europe, the united states was still faced with the war in the pacific, which they were eager to end. President Truman was faced with a difficult decision: to drop the United States newly developed atomic bomb or risk thousands or even millions of ally lives in a invasion. He chose to use his country’s newly developed weapon. As a direct result of this decision hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians lost their lives. His monumental decision also forced the Japanese to serener their war efforts in the Pacific without costing any American lives. The real question is, was it right or wrong?

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, brought to United States into World War II. Over the next 4 years the United States fought the Germans in Europe and the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean. Both parties cost the allies billions of dollars in planes, ships and artillery, not to mention the millions of lives lost in this war. But on ?, the war in Europe was over and the Allies were free to focus all there military efforts on the war that still loomed in the Pacific. Everyone but the Japanese hoped for a quick, easy victory for the allies, with as few ally casualties as possible. The United States started looking for a way to achieve this and found two options.

The first option identified was an invasion of the main islands of Japan. The Joint Chiefs of the United States proposed a two-part invasion, which would involve over five million troops, most of which would be American. The first of the two...

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