On August 6 1945, the first nuclear bomb to be dropped on foreign land was discharged from Enola Gay on Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, named Little Boy was dropped as a staggering assault trying to influence Japan to surrender, and decimated Hiroshima as more than 70,000 individuals were killed in a split second. As Hirohito, emperor of Japan declined to acknowledge the United States' terms of surrender, the second nuclear bomb, named 'Fat Man' was dropped over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Numerous individuals despised the utilization of the nuclear bombs, as the mass murder of regular, innocent citizens was accepted to be a highly inhumane and barbaric resolution for a political war. The point of this investigation is to examine if America's choice to drop the atomic bombs on Japan, and more specifically Nagasaki, is justified or not. This examination will specifically cover the circumstances that carried the US into World War 2 and its associations with Japan amid the war before the atomic assault. This examination will likewise analyze the US's authorization of the bombs to be dropped over Japan. Content from an assortment of …show more content…
That was until the point that Japan assaulted the US in Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was a US maritime base found in the Hawaiian Islands. On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was struck by Japanese powers. Before the assault, the US was presented with a message from Japan describing that their relationship was broken. This stunning assault brought about the deaths of 2400 Americans, with about 1200 harmed, around 200 aircraft vehicles pulverized, and various ship vessels, warships, and destroyers sunk or harmed. Japanese losses included 64 dead from perilous kamikaze assaults. The goal of the assault on Pearl Harbor was to retain Japan's progression into Singapore and the Dutch East Indies as the US maritime armada would be disabled and unable to