Morality of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima The atomic bomb was the cause for the end of World War II. In the year 1939, scientist Albert Einstein started working on the Uranium bomb and not even 10 years later, this deadly weapon was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan killing 80,000 people, but also ending the war. Immediately after the bomb dropped, people took sides on the morality of this event. While some people think Americans were wrong in dropping ‘Little Boy’, others think this was good because it saved many US soldiers, showed our perseverance in winning the war, and was the best solution to get the Japanese to surrender considering how terrible the conditions were. With the large amounts of American soldiers dying daily, we needed to do something about it. Everyday that passes without taking action, many American soldiers were not only dying but being severely injured. By bombing Japan, we will win the war, but do it by not killing any more of our own soldiers. Even though American soldiers were still in Japan as the city was bombed as shown in document 5, document 7 shows Japanese people who were killed and injured. In these photos, there is no American soldiers. Also, in the video we watched it said that 80,000 Japanese soldiers died while only a …show more content…
Document 5, written by Lester Bernstein tells of his own experience in the war and how he had spent months in Japan, dealing with hardships and later feeling the amazing defeat of Japan. His quote states “I was a G.I. who had weathered the war in Europe...For Americans in uniform and those who waited for them to come home...it was a sunburst of deliverance” The fact that he considers tens of thousands of people dying as a good thing really shows what hardships he encountered in his time in