Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki Justified Essay

On August 6, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb was unleashed on the bustling streets of Hiroshima causing the destruction of hundreds and thousands of lives. Subsequently, another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, three days later, adding to the rising death count. The supposed use of these bombs was not to annihilate Japanese but to bring a swift end to the long and disastrous war. Afterward, Japan had surrendered bringing an end to World War II. However, utilizing the bomb prompted the world into the nuclear age and new moral and ethical implications of the bomb began to surface. The justification of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the subject of historical debate. Some believe it was imperative to save millions of other lives and other suggest that the

The atomic was deemed inhumane because of the destruction and devastation it brought to the innocent people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A minute upon impact the bomb had vaporized sixty to eighty thousand civilians in Hiroshima alone and another forty thousand in Nagasaki. Overall, the death count had risen up to more two hundred thousand, two thirds of which were women and children (Langley 16). The people of these two cities were noncombatants, people who were not fighting in the war, and they had been completely destroyed. The civilians had nothing to do with the war and many were just pursuing their ordinary life when the bomb had struck and in a matter of seconds life, as they knew, had changed: their homes were destroyed, people they once knew were lost, and they continued to live in fear and despair. It was said that “in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki some of the victims evaporated in the heat; others turned into charred corpses. Survivors in both cities, exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation, faced total chaos as they waded among swollen bodies cluttering streets and fields in search of nonexistent medical care” (The Nuclear Age). While the people of America