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The Pros And Cons Of Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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Should the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki be remembered as a war crime or a necessary evil?

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shouldn’t be remembered as a necessary evil. From the purely military point of view, the Japanese had lost heavily before the America dropped the atomic bomb to the Hiroshima. Japanese navy have failed and Japanese Kwantung Army could be defeated in one month, and the senior service of Japan didn’t have warcraft due to their Maritime Center had been destroyed. Besides, allied forces of Germany surrendered directly resulted the Fascism’s strength declined. Before America came to a decision of dropping the atomic bomb, they had intercepted military secret and issue the Potsdam Proclamation to warn Japan Armed Forces to surrender. But Japan mistakenly believed America and other countries’ attitude of armistice, so brushing aside and keeping the field had become their policy until the great disaster strikes. Finally America’s decision is dropping the atomic bomb. All this signs indicate granted that America was not reached the decision, Japanese capitulate is inevitable. In short, in my view the action is not necessary. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shouldn’t be remembered as a war crime. …show more content…

According to the Enola Gay’s pilot, Theodore and the Colonel Paul Tibbets who used the Enola Gay to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima said, the war would be over, that’s the result in this bombing and it’s the best way to punish those who are cruel and fail to observe the international laws of war, so that the world death toll would be cut. The sooner the foes were killed, the better, above which is the common aspiration of the people of all

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Why would killing so many people ever be justified? First off the Japanese were nearly done before the bombing , so the bomb wasn’t necessary. “The JApanese were already defeated and ready to surrender...” (Document 6). This quote shows that the bomb was not necessary and was just the United States showing off a new weapon they had.

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Today, Many historians argue that America should not have dropped the bomb on Japan. People believe that is was morally incorrect for Americans to completely destroy two cities in Japan with many civilians. Even though dropping the atomic bombs was a violation of International Law, it was justified because it saved more lives than killed, it was the only way the Japanese would surrender and it made America more powerful. While the dropping of the bomb seems like it killed so many people, it actually saved more lives.

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This image shows how big of a threat and danger Japan is- it also shows how important it is to bring Japan down. The atomic bombs are justified because of Japan’s aggressions towards U.S. The United States’ use of atomic bombs on Japan is justifiable because it saved thousands of American lives; the Japanese were given fair warning, and their aggressions towards the U.S.

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Therefore knowing how the Japanese soldiers think about surrendering, the millions of lives saved by ending the war quickly and shortly, and the countless warnings given to the Japanese, I think dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was warranted and

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On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city, Hiroshima. This, in turn, killed over 90,000 people both before and after the collision and turned 4 square miles of the city into rubble. Now, the question that comes to mind; Was dropping the bomb on Hiroshima the correct thing to do? The answer I have come up with is that it was, in fact, a good decision. It helped the war in the Pacific end quicker and decrease the number of casualties.

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The use of the atomic bomb when strategically compared to a land invasion, in fact prevented the loss of any U.S. soldiers lives, as well as the death of many Japanese citizens. Excerpts from “Three Narratives of our Humanity” by John W, debates whether or not the nuclear bombing was necessary to shock the Japanese into surrender and describes how the Japanese recall the war through a lens of their own victimization. An excerpt claims, “it is argued that the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima was necessary to shock the Japanese to surrender”. This presents a compelling argument supporting the ethicality of the bombings through its logical and strategic worth.

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In Document 2, Admiral Leahy says, “The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.” Some Americans felt as though the weapon should not have been used because the Japanese were ready to give in. COME BACK Not only were the Japanese ready to surrender but it was morally wrong to bomb multiple cities without realizing what the outcomes may be.

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Again, the Japanese had no knowledge of the bombs, causing even more devastating casualties. People have argued over the years if the atomic bombing was justified or not, and multiple points can be made on both arguments, yet I take it that the bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not justified. Keep in

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In the words of past Secretary of War Henry Stimson “But this deliberate, premeditated destruction was our least abhorrent alternative. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki put an end to the Japanese war. It stopped the fire raids, and the strangling blockade;” (Document 4). Without these bombs being dropped these smaller but more destructive bombings would have caused many more casualties than both of the atomic bombings put together. In Japanese controlled areas there was an estimated twenty five million deaths from 1937 to 1945.

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Although others may think differently, this mass killing was not necessary or justified. Japan was almost completely defenseless. According to the document Was The Atomic Bomb Of Japan Necessary, Dwight D.Eisenhower left something clear. “Japan was already defeated and dropping the atomic bomb was completely unnecessary” he said. The document also stated that the Japanese

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee uses a Mockingbird as a symbol, the bird brings happiness, but is bothered and shot by the people of Maycomb. Lee shows this when Tom Robinson is accused of raping Mayella Ewell but he did not rape her and he was still convicted. Tom is getting killed like a Mockingbird because of society's prejudice.

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In their article, Document 4, Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper, Nippon Times, revealed that the United States had caused unnecessary deaths, basically going against an international war law. Nippon Times states in their article in 1945, “What meaning is there in any international law, in any rule of human conduct, in any concept of right and wrong, if the very foundations of morality are to be overthrown as the use of this instrument of total destruction threatens to do?¨ The essence of Nippon Times argument is that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is against the International War Laws that state the unnecessary suffering of people in a conflicted war. The United States, according to Japan, broke a law of war that should be respected and followed as it helps to maintain some humanity in armed conflicts, saving lives and reducing suffering. This example shows that the dropping of the atomic bomb wasn't a military necessity. Additionally in Document 4, Nippon Times responds by claiming “… if the very foundations of morality are to be overthrown as the use of this instrument of total destruction threatens to do?” which implies that the U.S. planned to threaten Japan to bomb them.

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On the moral base, the answer would be no, of course, especially knowing the fact how Japan had no allies and that its navy was almost destroyed. Killing over 200,000 people, most of them civilians, will never be okay. But, when you look at the facts and weigh the possibility of what would have happened if Japan had dropped their bomb first, or if America tried an invasion with an enemy to whose soldiers’ honor was to die for the country, then this was the only possible decision to make in order for the U.S. to come out victorious. President Truman’s' decision to drop the Atomic bomb on Japan was the right decision for your country because it saved so many American lives. He was facing a terrible dilemma, but his priority was his people and their lives.

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While the U.S. and Japan are at high stakes, Europe is heating up. The U.S. couldn’t participate in both Japan’s attacks and Europe’s problems with Hitler at the same time. America needed an idea to get out of this situation, and there sat the atomic bomb. “By the time the atomic bombs were ready, the war had already ended with Nazi Germany. The war in the Pacific continued and many officials believed Americans would suffer great casualties if the United States invaded Japan by land.”

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Atomic Bomb, Justified or Not Justified Since World War 2, there has been a lot of controversy over the Atomic Bombs that were dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. During World War 2 Japan and the USA had their own quarrels, for example Japan bombed Pearl Harbor so the US retaliated by the Doolittle’s Raid. These barrages continued until the Atomic Bombs were dropped. Some think that the atomic bombs were inhumane and barbaric due to the fact that brought death to over a hundred thousand Japanese civilians. However, dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a justifiable way to end the war considering that it ended the war faster, gave Japan what they deserved, and Japan was never going to surrender without the bomb.

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