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Were The Bombing Of Hiroshima Ethically Wrong Essay

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Aiden Michlig
English 10th
Mr. Ebert
4/18/2023
Were the bombings of Hiroshima ethically or morally correct?

August 6th, 1945, World War II was in its final days with Germany out of the war after the death of Hitler, and what seems the end of the worst war to happen to humanity. America had been working on a weapon that could obliterate their enemies. They completed a weapon able to harness the power of the literal sun and use it. They dropped the bomb in Hiroshima on the morning of August 6th, 1945. It decimated everything in its path, killing 10s of thousands of civilians instantly and 100,000 more from radiation burns and extreme exposure to radiation. Then, August 9th, 1945, America dropped another nuke on Nagasaki and ended the war with …show more content…

This is showing that Conant suggested that they should bomb two major cities with civilians to make it, “the most brutal and destructive way possible.” It was meant to show people the power of what America could do, which ruined life for almost 100 years and will continue after all of this current generation dies. “To Truman, the A-bomb was just another weapon to use. Under this interpretation, there are no justifiable grounds for the moral condemnation of killing about 200,000 Japanese in the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” (Yagami). This is an article about the bombings of 1945 before the ones August 6th and 9th. It is just another report of the US dropping bombs on more countries killing more people. There was no actual reason dropped on civilian cities listed instead of a military base or a capital where the leader of the island is. This connects back to it being immoral and unethical as we killed civilians with no good reason listed except for ideas of money and …show more content…

These points are supported by all of the information around the data of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.This is important to know as if another bomb is dropped nowadays, we should first go through every other option before dropping a bomb that is more than 100x stronger than the ones used in 1945. This is important as nuclear bombs are now in every single country's hands and are ready to be launched. If we all as humans start nuclear warfare, the world will end as we know it as there is just too much power that will ruin what we know as Earth, so, let's not let this happen ever

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