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The Pros And Cons Of Atomic Bombs

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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. In war, winning takes priority over morality and ethical decisions become less important and are ignored. With the foresight we have today, the ends justify the means. …show more content…

While countries should ideally conduct themselves honorably in war, the reality is they are more likely to prioritize their interests over the treatment of others. Honorable would be minimizing the casualties of innocents. The treatment of other human beings should be considered by every country during any conflict. As long as the war continues, pain and suffering will follow suit. That is why the United States’s decision to drop the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima was ethical because it brought a swift end to the war, saved American lives, and was considered justified retaliation. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan brought a swift end to the war by bringing Japan to surrender. This article outlines the impact the atomic bombs had on Japan. On August 6th, 1945, the United States detonated ‘Little Boy’, the first atomic bomb used as a weapon of war, over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city was devastated by the bomb and an estimated

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With this morality in both conflicts plays a role in the bombing of cities and villages that contained a high concentration of civilians, where the United States believed the enemy to be stationed. It is here where the concept of body counts comes into play and supports the argument of an unjust, immoral war that defied the concepts held by American Exceptionalism. Tirman uses the example of Vietnam to point out argument, where the bombing strategy of “harassment and interdiction fire” was practiced, where there was no proof that enemy targets were destroyed and in the end did more harm than good as “killed a lot of innocents” to produce a number of supposed enemy casualties” (Tirman, The Real Cost of Vietnam). As in Vietnam the excessive bombings

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Furthermore, one must keep in mind the term “civilians”. While torture and abuse are in and of themselves truly unethical, it is made even more so by the fact that these actions were taken against civilians, who by rights had little to no actual influence upon the fighting itself, and could hardly have been found guilty of anything occuring there. This simply seeks to enforce how easily the process of dehumanization can cause people to perform heinous and cruel acts upon other, at times even innocent

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(Fox News. 2006). U.S. Forces continue to attempt to win the hearts and minds of the civilians within warzones in order to keep them on our side. We maintain positive relations with locals by treating them respectively and keeping them safe. Harming or tying up innocent people contradicts our objective. Instead of helping to achieve our nation’s goal, by doing anything other than releasing civilians who have uncovered my position behind enemy line, I would be detracting from the end state or our overall mission.

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It 's challenging to look back at events and understand the logic of using an atomic bomb without allowing one scrap of knowledge to creep into our decision making. All of this being said, it 's still possible to come to the conclusion that using this weapon was wrong. The belief that a military blockade would end the war wasn 't believed any more than a military blockade without invasion of Germany would work. The notion that Japan was teetering on surrender is silly.

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First off, not disagree with the decisions of the president to drop atomic bombs in Nagasaki, Hiroshima. The reason why I disagree with the atomic weapons that were drawn in japan is because there were thousand of people who were killed, innocent peoples who died in that bomb drops. there were military men who died, but at the same time is was acceptable for united states to fight, and win the war. United states were discomforted the lost thousand of people, including military, 48,000 people from the united states, military, and innocent peoples. It was grave that the united states had thousands of life that are why they proposed the attack besides japan.

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Murdering an individual is never justifiable. Never. Death rips families apart, destroys bonds, and terminates love. Soldiers get hurt, physically and mentally, and killed. Think about all the children that are witnessing their friends and family die because of the wars.

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The Atomic Bombs. The dropping of the atomic bombs on japan was not justified, giving them no warning the U.S. went through and dropped the bomb to end war faster killing thousands of people. Considering the fact that this happened during world war 2, many were left dead, hurt, and with destroyed cities, due to japan not wanting to surrender, citizens of japan and the people in japan were impacted by this action. The United States, dropped theses bombs with not one single warning, above cities, and they did it to impress Russia.

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