Pros And Cons Of Hiroshima Bombing

The bombing of Hiroshima has been a battling controversy on whether or not the United States did the right thing. On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Then on August 9, 1945, only three days from the bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki was bombed by the U.S. as well. The bombing of Hiroshima has its pros and cons but overall the bombing was necessary, but the second bombing on Nagasaki was not. The bombing of Japan saved American lives and many more for the future and ended the war; however, it was unethical for the thousands of Japanese who were harmed and should have had other alternatives.
The Japanese were depicted as terrorists who had massacred more citizens that are American. Therefore, the Americans through the

One of the individuals, Miss Toshinki Sasaki was a clerk at East Asia Tin works when the bombing had happened. “Thousands of people had nobody to help them. Abandoned and helpless, under the crude lean-to in the courtyard of the tin factory, beside the woman who had lost a breast and the man whose burned face was scarcely a face any more, she suffered awfully that night from the pain in her broken leg” (Hersey, p. 48). Miss Sasaki broke her leg and was in need of surgery. The people who were not as injured would help those in awful conditions but they would be outnumbered. The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered even more after the atomic bomb. “As if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped” (Hersey, p.78). The reproductive system for the men and women were not functioning so they are unable to have children. Based from Hersey’s Hiroshima (1946), “They reported that 78,150 people had been killed, 13,983 were missing, and 37,427 had been injured” (Hersey, pg. 81). The results from the bombing were already high ranking but about an additional 70,000 more died from radiation