Atomic Bomb Dbq Essay

From only trying to help end a vicious war, to killing a total of 215,000 people with two atomic bombs. The Manhattan Project, developed by President Harry. S Truman the 33th president of the United States began a project alongside J. Robert Oppenheimer by bombing the two cities of Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki causing complete eradication and slaughtering many innocent people. The development of the atomic bombs started in Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War 2 in Sep 1, 1939 – Sep 2, 1945, a project called The Manhattan Project to end World War 2 by dropping two atomic bombs in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan to get the Japanese to surrender and to show the power of the atomic bomb, but also the destruction it could cause

In their article, Document 4, Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper, Nippon Times, revealed that the United States had caused unnecessary deaths, basically going against an international war law. Nippon Times states in their article in 1945, “What meaning is there in any international law, in any rule of human conduct, in any concept of right and wrong, if the very foundations of morality are to be overthrown as the use of this instrument of total destruction threatens to do?¨ The essence of Nippon Times argument is that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is against the International War Laws that state the unnecessary suffering of people in a conflicted war. The United States, according to Japan, broke a law of war that should be respected and followed as it helps to maintain some humanity in armed conflicts, saving lives and reducing suffering. This example shows that the dropping of the atomic bomb wasn't a military necessity. Additionally in Document 4, Nippon Times responds by claiming “… if the very foundations of morality are to be overthrown as the use of this instrument of total destruction threatens to do?” which implies that the U.S. planned to threaten Japan to bomb them. Nippon Times contemplation on the U.S.

In his document, Document 3, “Secretary of War, Harry Stimson, The Decision to use the Atomic Bomb, Harper's Magazine 1950,” An American statesman, lawyer, and Republican Party politician, Harry Stimson reveals that death is unavoidable wherever you go and whoever you are. Stimson stated his document in 1950 in The United States to people of color when the American civil rights movement happened, a movement to end racial segregation against people of color all over the United States. As Stimson puts it, “The face of war is the face of death; death is an inevitable part of every order that a wartime leader gives. The decision to use the atomic bomb was a decision that brought death to over a hundred thousand Japanese.” In other words, Stimson believes that death has its own rules, and yet is still hard to predict, death is inevitable, is what Stimson thought of death. Death was brought upon the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they could not outrun death as the bomb was launched over them. By exclaiming “The decision to use the atomic bomb was a decision that brought death to over a hundred thousand Japanese,” Stimson affirms the idea that death is bound to happen to anyone, Stimson knew that the launching of the atomic bombs would kill many Japanese people, he knew knew that death was not unavoidable. Stimson’s contemplations on