Japan. Ironically, while saving the lives of troops, the atomic bombs resulted in the mass murder of civilians. Even years after the bombs were dropped, the radiation released from little boy and fat man continued to kill innocent people, bringing the casualty rate to millions, counterintuitive to the United States reasoning. The United States news reports at the time shun the reality to avert it from surfacing. The media only described the physical damage to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There was no mention of the noncombatants who were dying and died of burns and radiation. Americans knew little of the horrors that the Japanese witnessed. Another purpose that the atomic bomb was to fulfill was the end of the war. The United States believed that the atomic bomb was the only way that the emperor of Japan would negotiate an end to the war. Indeed, the A-bombs shortened the war by inducing the unconditional surrender of Japan. In its triumph, the United States of America felt that using nuclear warheads on Japan was ultimately the right thing to do because it subdued the nation of Japan. In addition, the bombs displayed the …show more content…
The overall memory of the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki generated many contemporary debates. The sheer destruction and devastation of a single weapon arises profound moral questions over its use on Japan. From a moral standpoint, the use of any nuclear weapon is wrong and unnecessary. It was purely inhuman barbarism to drop atomic bombs on innocent Japanese civilians. President Truman knew that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not purely military targets, these cities would only elaborate the killings of harmless men, women, and children.. Regardless, a civilian population should never be directly targeted because they are not the ones who organize or fight in war. It is not justifiable to claim that lives would be saved if lives are purposely being