Hiroshima: The Havoc that Turned more than a City to Shambles On this earth, people have lived their lives by a before and after, a date changing their lives completely from one day to another. Whether these people were American or Japanese, young or old, rich or poor, the date of August 6, 1945 flipped their life upside down. From this day forward emotions overcame these people, filling some with euphoria and pride, others with sadness and resentment. The bomb changed the world they lived in, the power hierarchy, and killed tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people. Some say that the bomb saved lives, that if we hadn't dropped the bomb the war would have gone on killing many more people. But as humans we need to think about how dropping …show more content…
Radiation and disease killed many Japanese long after the bomb fell from the sky. The US had no idea about what the radiation would cause in the Japanese. The Americans had only tested one plutonium bomb (called Trinity). They had never tested a Uranium bomb before, hence them not knowing if it would actually detonate. They also had no idea what would happen because of radiation. There had been no previous studies and so much was unknown; the first studies started after the bomb dropped and had done the damage. “In the first years after the war, biophysicists used computers and the scant available data to try to fathom the mysteries of the Hiroshima bomb , calculating that it emitted primarily neutrons. But they readily admitted that their dose estimates might be off by 400 percent” (Broad). Something like this is not humane. Moreover, the bomb affected generations of Japanese through birth defects and increased cancer rates, among other health complications. The Hiroshima victims that were affected by the bomb acted as the United State’s guinea pigs. Testing the bomb’s effects on US citizens would not have been heard of so why would it be allowed to test them on Japanese