When the atom bombs were dropped most of the cities in the radius of the blast were leveled. Many people died of radiation sickness, some people got flash burns, and some had the horrible fate of vaporizing into thin air in the blink of an eye. The atomic bombing killed millions of people. It was considered to be genocide and the bomb should have not been dropped. Then again the atomic bombs helped end the war so no more troops would have died.
The first atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima at 0815 on 6 August 1945. Due to the lack of warning and the populace's indifference to small groups of planes, the explosion came as an almost complete surprise, and the people had not taken shelter. Many were caught in the open, and most of the rest in flimsily constructed homes or commercial establishments. This caused extensive distraught. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki.
The air at the scene was still thick with the smell of whatever was dropped that day; it is hard to imagine or to describe the horrors of what the pilot did. The headmaster said he felt helpless. He was too afraid to give his name. "The worst thing in life is for someone to die before our eyes. "People burning in front of you.
It slaughtered all the dwellers of these cities, and polluted the area so that people could not live there. More than sixty years passed, and still no one lives in these places. The consequences of using nuclear weapon were so disastrous and cruel that humans finally understood they had to stop. Most countries signed various agreements stating that they would not use and produce nuclear weapons. Still many countries have nuclear powers, but no one comes to the scratch to use them.
Necessity of the bomb lies with the amount of people that would have been killed in a land invasion, although it was vastly exaggerated. If next generation were raised on the path the Japanese were taking, they would grow up to become monsters. it saved many American Soldiers lives by stopping a land invasion of Japan and prisoners of war were being abused. But the Atomic bomb used against Japan was not necessary to end the war considering the numbers of American lives saved was vastly exaggerated, They were sending their battleships and pilots out on suicide missions as they were desperate, there was a vengeance for pearl harbour and racism towards the Japanese people, many victims of the bomb were civilians that had nothing to do with the war, the only reason Japanese weren’t surrendering is because they didn’t want to give up there emperor to the “unconditional surrender” and to demonstrate their power over the world. The bombing of Hiroshima was necessary to end the war as it would save many lives as suggests in source A “should adopt a position that rather than throw to this bomb we should have sacrificed a million American and a quarter of a million British live”.
The city is completely destroyed, there are 90,000 buildings and 60,000 of them were completely destroyed by the explosion. In all, approximately 33% or ⅓ of Hiroshima is completely destroyed. The town was in Mercy. They all had no more hope. They had lost the
In their use, the first atomic bombs proved quite a catastrophic occurrence but culminated a seemingly inconclusive feud of the world’s greatest powers at the time. On August 6, 1945, the bomb bay doors of the Enola Gay opened, letting lose the ‘Little Boy’ that was to engulf Hiroshima and 140,000 lives of its citizens who were marred extremely with some even having the skin ‘not only on their hands, but on their faces and bodies too [hanging] down.’ Still showing no signs of surrender, the ‘Fat Man’ followed shortly in Nagasaki repeating its precedent detriment only 3 days after. With their allies already incapacitated, the Japanese finally realized the impossibility of neither recovery nor triumph - defeat was inevitably theirs to own. But through the midst of all the senseless desecration, there came a peace that would prevail and cease the recurrence of such tragedy; ‘the atom bomb was the last thing that happened in the war and no more bad things have happened since then.’ In such case, violence inflicted to others proved to be a resolve for the betterment of the world’s entirety. Fire is an element often associated with agonizing pain and havoc; the torment it brings to people’s lives often intense and sometimes even irrecoverable.
The rods jammed, and following that a large explosion occurred. When the local fire men arrived they did not realise that this wasn't a typical fire which could be put out with water; furthermore, they were unaware of the invisible danger of radiation. Radiation sickness was evident among many. They felt tired and began to vomit. Gums begun to bleed and their teeth and hair began to fall out.
I wasn't sure at first either, but after some research for a class, I found that the bombings were unnecessary. By June 1945, Japan had already been militarily defeated. Almost nothing was left of Japan's navy, and its air force was almost totally destroyed. The explosions destroyed more than four square miles of Hiroshima. About 90,000 people were killed immediately, and another 40,000 were injured (many of whom died from radiation sickness.)
This time the atom bomb killed around 40,000 people instantly. To date 269,446 people[3] have died as a result of the deployment of the two atom bombs. All of them were civilians who were not involved in the war between Japan and the Allied forces. Not only was this act of destruction wholly unjustified, it was at the very least a war crime and, arguably, an act of genocide. Leading up to the first bomb, on July 26, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the Republic of China issued a document to Japan, the Potsdam Declaration, in which they demanded unconditional surrender from the Empire of Japan.