Atomic Bomb Justification

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Atomic Bomb Justification On the 6th of August, 1945, “Little Boy” was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. “Little Boy”, a nickname used by the United States, was one of the most disastrous bombs used in history. For decades, there have been feuds over whether or not the United States was justified for bombing Japan. Many people say that the U.S. killed poor innocent civilians, but both soldiers and civilians, were going to die in the war no matter what. The decision to drop the bomb on the two Japanese cities was what kept the war from prolonging. The Japanese were warned and were in a state of total war. If the bombs had not been dropped the soldiers fighting in the war would have suffered major losses up to ten times more, and…show more content…
Which shows the Japanese Government cared very little about their civilians. The Japanese Government wanted to keep the war going in order for them to sustain imperial victory hoping that it would achieve an conditional surrender rather than an unconditional surrender. Because of their selfishness, many civilians had to suffer. On the 26th of July, Truman and the rest of the allied leaders issued the Potsdam Declaration outlining terms of surrender for Japan. The Potsdam Declaration was presented as an Ultimatum that stated that if Japan did not want to surrender, the Allies would attack Japan resulting in “the inevitable and complete destruction of Japanese armed forces and just as inevitably the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland.” On the 28th of July, the U.S. received papers saying that the declaration had been rejected by the Japanese Government. The U.S. then decided to go forth with the bombing on Hiroshima. After the first bombing on Hiroshima Japan was then warned again, but still refused to surrender. This act showed that the Japanese were ruthless and were in no way ready to surrender, no matter what cost. They were fighting for their country and power and they were not going to stop for…show more content…
In 1938, the national mobilization law was signed in; it gave the Japanese government control over the entire economy, which allowed them to impose “broad controls in areas such as wages, employment, industrial relations, funds of financial institutions, and firms disposal of profit.” One of the men that supports the a-bomb dropping is Father John A. Siemes, who witnessed the bombing Hiroshima, and believes that “ in total war , as carried on in Japan, there was no difference between civilians and soldiers” and “it seems logical to me that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of war against civilians.” (Yale Law School) If the bombs had not been dropped by the United States, the war might have been elongated and the United States might have had to send troops into Japan. This act would have killed more soldiers and civilians lives than the atomic bombs if it continued. The United States made the right decisions of dropping the bombs. The war needed to end, and the only way to do it quickly, was to use nuclear weapons. The United States was justified in using these weapons of mass destruction and as a method of saving more American
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