Free Argumentative Essays: The Bombing Of Japan

The Bombing of Japan Although Truman studied the utilization of the atomic bomb with great care and justified his actions by claiming that Japan’s refusal to surrender had backed America into a corner furthering the need to protect American soldiers from impending death these claims make it seem as though Japan was an uninjured enemy in full prime when in truth this country had already suffered previous attacks and had lost a majority of its strength barely standing on its own to feet, all the while sending various surrender pleads which were all rejected. In times of war it is expected that each side be touched by death, but to stab an injured man in the back is no true fight, it is murder.
Long before the atomic bomb was released on Hiroshima

This lack of comprehension of the Japanese culture is ignorant of Truman, he does not understand the amount of shame and humiliation that comes with their offers of peace. This is a country where to be captured is to become a disgrace to your army and your family will never be able to hold their heads up again, a country that encourages its soldiers to die fighting rather than survive. For him to make it appear as though America had no other choice, but to resolve to this amount of bloodshed is an abomination. Even Commander Robert Lewis of the Enola Gay crew says, “As the bomb exploded, we saw the entire city disappear [and] I wrote in my log,’My God, what have we done?” What had they done? They murdered over 160,000 people and those who were left after still subsequently died and are still dying due to various forms of cancer transmitted from the radiation that came off of the atomic

Was it worth the amount of casualties? Instead of targeting the Japanese military who the American military should have initially been fighting they purposely hit innocent civilians as well. Admiral William E. Leahy stated “wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” These civilians most likely have no say in what their government or ruler decides to do or who they decide to go to war with. Not only did it kill innocent people, but it also managed to touch the generations afterwards. Survivors suffered from psychological damage such as neurotic symptoms, including general fatigue, amnesia, and lack of concentration and when given surveys they also collected additional information that when the memory of the bombing was brought to survivors minds they would become upset and unresponsive or immobile along with feeling of guilt. Physical damage that survivors contracted was nausea, bleeding and loss of hair, death, flash burns, leukemia, and tumors. The worst after effect of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” would have to be the birth defects reported, not only did these bombs destroy villages and their people, but it also ruined their future. Studies have concluded that over 1600 children who were exposed to radiation while in their mother’s womb in the two cities revealed that 30 of them suffered from clinically severe mental retardation. To punish the future generation for their