America’s War Crime From 1939-1945, or otherwise know as the duration of World War 2, an estimated 2,600,00-3,100,000 civilian and military casualties fell upon Japan as the years slowly dragged on. The two nuclear bombs, Fat Man and Little Boy, killed a combined total of 129,000-226,000, while the entire incendiary campaign only killed 300,000 and injured 400,000 more, and with those numbers the pure lethality of the nuclear bomb is clear. Since the United States Government knew about the radiation and its effects, the nuclear bombing of Japan in World War 2 can be defined as unjustified war crimes. The government can not legally own nuclear weapons under international law due to public safety. Kramer empathizes this by stating “Governmental decisions to possess nuclear weapons can be classified as state crimes because they are illegal- that is they violate public-international law." (Kramer 70). The international law states nuclear weapons are banned and they can not legally be possessed by any government making the United States’s use of these weapons unjustifable. If an international law is made banning such weapons it is obvious that they are too lethal to use for war especially on a nearly defeated enemy such as Japan was in 1945. U.S also used another …show more content…
America even broadcasted this as Kirstein writes “The report denounced the planned A-bomb attack without a warning on a nearly defeated Japan.” (Kirstein 4). “The report denounced the planned A-bomb attack without a warning on a nearly defeated Japan.” (Kirstein 4). America knew Japan was weakened, they did not care and the government used the bombs which is unacceptable considering it is a waste of bombs. Also a nuclear bomb on a target as weak as Japan makes no logical sense, meaning the bombing was unjustifiable due to it being