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Hiroshima Bombing Justified Research Paper

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On 6 August 1945, the first atomic bomb to be dropped on foreign soil was released from Enola Gay on Hiroshima, Japan. This atom bomb, named Little Boy was dropped as a devastating attack in an attempt to make Japan surrender, When Hirohito, emperor of Japan refused to accept the United States' terms of surrender, the second atomic bomb was dropped over Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945. For decades, there have been feuds relating to the justification of the bombings. The United States was justified due to the unprovoked attack and bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which occurred about three years prior to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United Stated was also justified because they had only attempted to end the war and they gave Japan a chance to surrender before they dropped the atom bombs known as Postdam Declaration.
The Potsdam Declaration demanded that Japan should surrender or will have to face destruction . The japanese decided not surrender as “Hirohito, acting as arbiter, resolved the conflict in favor of unconditional surrender.”() and destruction came in the form of the atom bomb. Much of Hiroshima was destroyed by the "Little Boy," with perhaps as many as 90,000 deaths almost instantaneously and estimates of additional deaths by the end of the year from injury, burns, and …show more content…

On December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked and bombed by Japanese pilots without warning. Behind them they left chaos, 2,403 dead, 188 destroyed planes and a crippled Pacific Fleet that included 8 damaged or destroyed battleships. “We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare”.. To avenge all those American lives we had to drop the atomic

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Afterwards, the United States declared war on Japan, and joined allies against the axis powers. The United States’ use of the atomic bombs is justified because it saved American lives; Japan was given fair warning, and their aggressions towards the U.S. The atomic bombs on Japan saved many American lives. Document 15 reads: The entire population of Japan is

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