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On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a bomb called “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. ... Three days later, another bomb—this one called “Fat Man”—was dropped on Nagasaki. ... Decades of anger, resentment and death followed the detonation of those two Atomic Bombs, and so came new revelations about Japan’s situation in World War II. These discoveries show that, without a doubt, the horrible destruction we wrought with the world’s first nuclear weapons was not necessary, and President’s Truman’s decision to use them is unjustified.
In the city of Hiroshima alone, 80,000 lives were taken instantly in the initial explosion of the bomb. ... In Nagasaki as many as 74,000 people died.
Some supporters of Truman’s decision will argue that dropping the A-Bombs saved more lives than an alternative action would have. No American lives were lost, and projected Japanese deaths in a land invasion were triple that of the numbers of dead in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. ... If we had warned the Japanese of bombs, they would have prepared anti-aircraft weapons to eliminate any US planes—even the weather reconnaissance planes that flew over Japan almost daily. ... Because the average Japanes citizen was extremely concerned the Emperor’s safety, it was thought that the Charter’s terms would help a quick, bloodless end to the war.
Japan sent no official reply to this extension of goodwill, indicating to those who support the use of the Atomic Bombs that Japan was not willing to accept it. ... It was on August 6, however, that the United States dropped the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. ... Could our attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been a warning to the Russians as well as the Japanese? ... Not long after the A-Bombs were detonated, the USSR began to build their own nuclear weapons. ...
Because we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki without warning, and because we used the weapons of mass destruction partially as a threat to the Soviet Union, the United States began to gain a reputation for barbarianism. ... Dropping nuclear weapons inspired fierce patriotism, and satisfied the average man’s lust for revenge at Pearl Harbor. ... In 1952 and 1954 two Hydrogen Bombs—measured as 700 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima—were detonated in the Pacific.
Approximate Word count = 1898
Approximate Pages = 7.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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