Atomic Bomb Persuasive Essay

In 1945, the United States launched an atomic bomb to Japan as an attempt to get Japan to surrender WWII. Firstly the United States dropped “Little Boy” in Hiroshima and later dropped “Fat Man” in Nagasaki. Although the intentions of these bombs was because of war, was it really necessary? This atomic bomb destroyed the lives of many Japanese through deaths, diseases and destruction. Isn’t the American moral strong enough to prevent this?
President Trumans’s decision to launch the atomic bomb ended in the death of innocent people. These people died instantly and unexpectedly. According to “Icanw”, “By the end of 1945, the bombing had killed an estimated of 140,000 people in Hiroshima, and a further 74,000 in Nagasaki.” These people had families

A specific deadly disease many of the Japanese exposed to the bomb experienced was leukemia, which was not shown until after around two years of radiation exposure. As stated in “K=1 Project”, “The Radiation Effects Research Foundation estimates the attributable risk of leukemia to be 46% for bomb victims.” Due to the launch of the atomic bomb, nuclear radiation caused people to be almost 50% more likely to get leukemia. Along with leukemia, many other illnesses were caused due to the atomic bomb. According to “Icanw”, “After about a decade, survivors began suffering from thyroid, breast, lung and other cancers at higher than normal rates.” The exposure to nuclear radiation caused victims to have a higher chance illness such as cancer, which is a deadly illness. The dropping of these atomic bombs had the negative effect of disease which is unjustifiable despite reasoning. Not only did the the atomic bombs cause death and disease, they as well caused major

Many people lost their homes. According to “history.com”, “The plane dropped the bomb—-known as “Little Boy”…destroying five square miles of the city.” Five square miles is equivalent to more than 2 small towns, in which all buildings there were completely destroyed. The next bomb later dropped was known as “Fat Man”, according to “history.com”, “…”Fat Man” was dropped… More powerful than the one used at Hiroshima… The topography of Nagasaki, which was nestled in narrow valley between mountains, reduced the bomb’s effect, limiting the destruction to 2.6 square miles.” This atomic bomb did not do as much damage as the first bomb, “Little Boy”, yet would have done more destruction if it were not for the mountains in Nagasaki. The decision to drop these bombs was unjustifiable, through death, disease and destruction, yet some may