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The Pros And Cons Of Atomic Bombing

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The idea of dropping such a devastating weapon on a civilian population is troubling. It seems morally and ethically there must be an alternative. The bombing of civilians is barbaric and cruel, but through the years we have lost sight of our morals and ethic beliefs on the value of human life and the innocence of civilians. The use of an atomic bomb seems like the easy way to end a long and drawn out war, but it is also the coward's way of avoiding further conflict. The mass genocide of civilians goes against everything that we as Americans believe is right. I must advise you, Mr. President to avoid using the atomic bomb at all costs because the consequences are too great and they appear to give in to surrender soon. There is a consensus …show more content…

We should only use the atomic bomb as a last and final resort to end the war. Our troops in the pacific have weakened the Japanese hold on the islands surrounding the islands of Japan. Our continuous attacks and bombing raids on military installations are weakening their forces every day and it is only a matter of time before they are depleted of resources and too weakened to fight and they will lay down their arms and seek surrender. The Japanese are a very prideful people and they do not accept failure lightly, but they are also wise and they will come to their senses and realize that there is no way that they will be able to continue fighting a war that they don't have the manpower or resources to finish. We have taken major strongholds and key islands from the Japanese and every day they grow weaker while we grow stronger. We are at a point in the war where decisions we make will affect our future of the entire world and our posterity. We as Americans need to set an example for the entire world that war will not make us into barbarians and that even in times of war we can still have moral and ethical limits to the amount of damage and killing we will do. The equivalent power of the uranium atomic bomb that we

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The United States invasion of Japan led to numerous casualties and severe damage yet Japan stood its ground, proving it would fight to the death. At times violence is the answer; Japan had no intention of surrendering, no matter the consequence. U.S. Secretary of war, Henry Stimson, confirms that “only the complete destruction of her military power could open the way to lasting peace”.(Document B) Each day brought great suffering, and the only logical solution to dealing with millions of suicidal soldiers was to kill off the problem. After the Japanese repeatedly refused to surrender the United States was forced to put its nuclear warfare to use and bomb both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, doing what they believed was their only

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Although it has risks, it still has benefits. We would be able to sort out the military from civilian lives, something we would not be able to do if we dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. There would also be much less radioactivity in these cities. However, if we do drop the bombs, we would most definitely scare the Empire into surrendering. We demonstrate the

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The actions authorized by President Truman on August 6, 1945 to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan would be proven to be unjustified in the years that followed. Actions of this type can divide and break a once unified nation. Deciding if the united States bombing Japan was justified or not would depend on how well you know the topic. Looking deeper into the bombing will reveal the horrendous truth.

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On August 6th through 9th, 1945, the United States made a controversial decision that changed the course of history. The Atomic Bombing caused an upshot for America to the Japanese. Four years prior, Japan made a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Naval base, Pearl Harbor, on December 7th, 1941. Although Japan had experienced crucial damage from the atomic bomb, the US decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a morally justifiable act of self defense. It prevented further American casualties to ending World War II, which also allowed Japan to be held accountable for their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

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American military leaders from all branches of the armed forces some prior to August 1945, some in retrospect, strongly demurred from the decision to use the bombs for moral reasons. Japan was already defeated and in peace negotiations with Russia; surrender was imminent. Moreover, Russia was willing to enter the war against Japan if necessary. Bombing dense human settlements was pretty much barbarous, immoral and would shock world opinion. Some argue a demonstration bombing away from residential areas could be used instead to force immediate surrender.

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The atomic bomb should be supported by the U.S. because of the following reason. Many people supported the bombing because the Japanese were given a fair warning. The supporters argument states, “Additionally, bomb supporters argue that Japanese civilians were warned in advance through millions of leaflets dropped on Japanese cities by U.S. warplanes. In the months preceding the atomic bombings, some 63 million leaflets were dropped on 35 cities target for destruction by U.S. air forces. The Japanese people generally regarded the information on these leaflets as truthful, but anyone caught in possession of one was subject to arrest by the government.

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(Compton n.p.) As seen from this quote, both sides enter war knowing that what they have to do will be cruel or immoral, but is in the best interest of their country. Now onto the question of if an alternative strategy to dropping the nuclear warheads should have been found. Based on the information that is available, it is clear to see that an alternative strategy for dropping the nukes wouldn’t have worked. Japanese soldiers only surrender because of the devastation of the warheads.

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However, some historians have debated that, while the Hiroshima bombing helped in forcing Japan to surrender, the Nagasaki bombing was unnecessary. They claim that the two bombings were antitheses of each other: one was compulsory and the other was vicious. Several of these people include Martin Sherwin, who had noted in his book A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance (1974) that the bombing was “certainly unnecessary”; and Bruce Cumings, who said that it was “gratuitous at best and genocidal at worst. (1999) Nonetheless, one historian, Robert James Maddox, observed these claims and refuted that the Japanese “would minimize the first explosion or attempt to explain it away as some sort of natural catastrophe”.

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In this essay I will examine the Americas use of nuclear weaponry against Japan in August 1945 and will argue that it was necessary to use atomic power in order to defeat Japan.

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Estimates place the total death toll of World War II between a low of fifty million and a high of eighty million. While the dropping of the atomic bombs was no doubt a tragedy, its impact pales in comparison to the vast scale of destruction witnessed during the war. The death of Adolf Hitler in April 1945 marked the end of the war in the European theater. In the Pacific theater, however, Japan continued to resist and refused to agree to a surrender. The decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was made by the United States to bring Japan to surrender and finally bring an end to World War II.

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Italy, Germany have already surrendered and Japan is one of the countries that need to surrender. With atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most of Japan's military weapons will be destroyed. They won't have anything to fight against the United States. In addition, the atomic bomb will give the Japanese a psychological shock or trauma about the bombing. The bombing will cause a shock because of how strong the effect of the bomb is going to be, also the impact of the bomb's radiation will have a lasting effect on Japan over a few generations.

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Many innocent civilians get brutally injured or even killed because of these bombs. Not just the bomb itself, but the building that it brought crashing down and the gas it unleashed that is harmful to a

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Is a bomb that could wipe out hundreds and thousands of lives powerful? During World War 2 the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from Japan got devastated because of the United States bomb invention which is the nuclear bomb. United States dropped the first bomb on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, according to the article about 65,000 to 200,000 people kick the bucket. After the destruction of Hiroshima Japan still did not surrender. United States dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki which made them give up, one of the article stated that 39,000 people were assassinated and 25,000 were injured.

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I am writing to encourage you to end the war and drop the atom bomb on Japan. Those awful people have been warned and they refuse to back down. It has been a brutal war for the both of us. We have lost countless valuable men and I fear if we continue a simple blockade and bomb strategy we will only lose more. The Japanese are people of great dignity and I know they will not back down until every last man, woman, and child is wounded beyond repair.

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