At 8:15am on August 6, 1945, approximately 300 to 500 feet above the highly populated city of Hiroshima Japan, the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was detonated. Only minutes later 60,000 to 100,000 people were dead, most were vaporized leaving only an eerie shadow of carbon behind. In the year and months that followed hundreds of thousands of people died of radiation poisoning and radiation provoked disease. Children born in months immediately following the bombing were occasionally born without vital organs or limbs. Was the decision to drop this historical bomb a correct one?
The nickname given to that atomic bomb was “Fat Man”. The U.S. should have given japan more tiem to recover from the shock by the attack on Hiroshima. A lot of innocent lives were taken on this day. The bombing of Nagasaki alone killed 37,000 people along with 43,000 injured people. Together the two bombs killed an estimated 200,000 Japanese civilians.
Tibets, dropped the uranium atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan's seventh largest city. In minutes, half of the city was annihilated. Granite Stone was incinerated by the nuke's explosive energy 1 square kilometre from the hypocentre of the detonation point. Based on U.S estimates, about 120,000 civilians and 20,000 soldiers were killed from both nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most died not because of the blast, but because of the nuclear aftermath and radiation sicknesses and diseases, such as leukemia.
The bomb was not humane. In the article “Arguments Against the Bomb” by Michael Barnes, Barnes explains how powerful the atomic bomb is; “Entire families, whole neighborhoods were simply wiped out. The survivors faced radiation sickness, starvation, and crippling mutations”. In this quote, it explains how no human could stand against this bomb. Horrific injuries were inflicted upon everyone in the blast radius, upon women and children, and the lasting effects have still yet to fade.
The two raids killed at least 243 people and between 300 and 400 were wounded. Twenty military aircraft were destroyed, eight ships at anchor in the harbour were sunk, and most civil and military facilities in Darwin were destroyed (source 1).” This text is very relevant to the issue because it provides a very detailed outline of the horrific damage caused by the bombing of Darwin. It is believed that the bombing of Darwin was the one of the largest Japanese attack since Pearl Harbour. The Japanese inflicted very heavy losses upon Darwin, seeing as the town was poorly defended. The raids also caused urban areas of Darwin to suffer some damage, and there were a number of civilian casualties.
Dead bodies lay everywhere, and the city was all on fire. Nothing but clouds and smoke around. “Now not many people walked in the streets, but a great number sat and lay on the pavement, vomited, waited for death and died (Hersey 34-35).” These people were miserable and devastated. And many people that survived had a diseases from the radiation the bomb released. “Mysteriously.
F) In the end their responses ended up having some intense results with many Christians dieing due to their beliefs on what caused the Black Death and how they decided to respond to it. William Dene described Christians as being in such chaos that “The labourers and skilled workmen were imbued with such a spirit of rebellion that neither king, law nor justice would curb them.” They were so affected by the Black Death that they were in such moral disarray that they were starting to become completely out of control. William Dene also stated in his writing that “The people for the greater part ever became more depraved, more prone to every vice and more inclined than before to evil and wickedness, not thinking of death nor of the past plague nor of their own salvation.” Christians were throwing away their religion and were slipping into a life of wickedness and evil. (Doc. K) On the other hand Muslims were actually accepting towards the Black Death they pretty much believed that if this plague was in their God's will they will respectfully live it out, you see this when Michael Dols uses a statement "Prayer for lifting the epidemic is
About 42 percent of the amount of Agent Orange that we used was devoted to crop destruction; the products of hours of hard work were demolished within seconds. Agent Orange caused many people to starve to death. It has been reported, by the New York Times, that the herbicide destroyed 75 percent of the rice crops. Because people’s homes and crops were being destroyed, they were left homeless and hungry on the
These awful events, discussed and regarded in a much different light half a century ago, are analyzed quite divergently now that mankind has had fifty years to ponder on its errors. Not only did millions of people perish during the Holocaust and immediately after the Nagasaki episode, but many more lost their lives some time afterwards, victims of physical deterioration, mental illness created by the tragic events, and depression brought upon by memories of the horrors. Anja Spiegelman is one such case. She found her demise twenty years after surviving the death camps, a victim of their memories. In a sense, she did not survive.
The Holocaust The Holocaust was a mass murdering of millions of people. Most of the people killed were of the Jewish population. The number of people killed was so high they had to make a new word for it, genocide (Rice 11). The leader of this genocide was Adolf Hitler. Hitler is a German dictator (Fremon 7).