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 Moral Debate: Dropping the Atomic Bomb On the morning of August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, flew over the city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever known to this world. The second bomb was dropped shortly afterwards in Nagasaki, Japan. For the United States government the project was a complete success. But for Japan, there were some devastating effects, such as the death of many people, atomic radiation, and the destruction of two cities. But the Atomic Bomb did end World War II, but it still instigated serious controversies concerning its power and destructive potential.
Fieser started to get bad feedback from U.S civilians so he told people on the news that he was not responsible for the use of Napalm in warfare or by the government, “article Protesting Napalm”. After the Vietnam War the government saw how destructive napalm is so they banned it for civilian usage and used against civilian populations in 1980 by the United Nations Conventions on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). Napalm is a sticky substance mixed with gasoline that would stick on everything and covered anything it touched with a ball of fire. They used napalm in flamethrowers to clear a cave or a dug out that enemies might be sheltering themselves in. Before they only used gasoline that would drop off people after a few seconds.
Together, the two bombs eventually killed an estimated 200,000 Japanese civilians. From a glance, the deed was plain brutal and ruthless but examining fully, the decision to drop the bomb saved many lives indirectly, both American and Japanese, and helped put an end to a horrific war. One of the main purposes of the atomic bomb was to prevent American casualties in the war. Although successful, invasion of Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa islands proved to be costly. Many American soldiers had sacrificed their valuable lives fighting.
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 images that were broadcasted all over America did not please the public and before long riots and protests were being held in the streets to end the war. This was because hundreds of American soldiers had died in a war they thought was coming to an end. The Tet Offensive proved otherwise and caused a major disagreement between the public and the American government. Many people believe that this almost forced the government to end the war because without the moral support from their own country there would be no chance in another. On the other hand, the Americans actually won the fight and in doing so managed to kill thousands of Vietcong’s, unmasked Vietcong’s, which they had not been able to do very well until this point.
Three days later, another atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. It is estimated that between 150,000 and 250,000 people were killed as a result of the bombings. However, once the Japanese government witnessed the destructive power of the bombs, they had no choice but to surrender. Had the bombs not been used, the war would have gone on for much longer.
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.)
On August 5, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb in military history on Hiroshima. Three days later, they dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki before Japan could respond to the extent of the devastation. This played a key role in ending World War II, but resulted in the killings of over 200,000 Japanese civilians (eHistory). This historical event is still a decision that is often debated on moral grounds today. However, there are some philosophies and schools of thought which, when applied to the issue, are more likely to lead one to gain a more thorough understanding of why the action was unethical and should not have been committed.
This isn’t true. Even if it was justified for the US to attack Japan to avenge those that were killed at Pearl The “revenge” that the US exacted was on a scale that was completely uncalled for. The number of victims of the atomic bombings was highly disproportionate to that of the Pearl Harbor bombings. The number of deaths and injuries sustained by the Navy, Army and USMC combined still remained a fraction of the victims of Fat Man and Little Boy. Furthermore, many of the lives claimed during the atomic bombings were those of civilians.