Why the atomic bomb shouldn't have been dropped by Dane’e Howell? The atomic bomb that hit Japan was a tragedy that will forever be remembered by both the Japanese and the US. the point I will be making is if the US should have dropped the atomic bomb on japan, what would have happened if they didn't drop the bomb and the after effects of the bomb and how many lives it took. The atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945 during World War II. Truman, the president that dropped the atomic bomb, was originally vice president under President Roosevelt. “Japan’s defeat in 1945 saw its military curtailed to a small “self-defense force”. Its post-war constitution still renounces war as a right of the nation. An estimated 215,000 people died in the …show more content…
About 215,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. Radiation sickness and cancers caused by the nuclear blasts would kill tens of thousands more in the months and years that followed, Because of all of the radiation in the atomic bomb whether you were hit with it and survived or you weren't, the radiation is poisonous to the human body so most either got sick and died or some survived but we're left with something in their bodies being defective.“ Some of the stories are as tragic as they are remarkable. Yukio Yoshioka, who, aged 15 at the time, was 1.2km away from the blast's epicenter, had his molecular structure altered. The radiation modified my DNA and destroyed my reproductive system," he said. I've never known what it is to be a man. This is important because it helps us understand how powerful the atomic bomb really was. About 215,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. And because of it, lots of people lost their families and lost functioning parts of their bodies because of all the radiation. This matters