Atomic Bomb Dbq

Was The Atomic Bomb The Best Way To End The War?
Was it really necessary for the U.S. to use the atomic bomb against Japan to end the war? What even is a atomic bomb? The atomic bomb is a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heatblast, and radioactivity. The atomic bomb should not have been used to defeat Japan because it immediately killed an estimated 120,000 people, it was racist to only use the atomic bomb against Japan, and the radioactivity caused long term health effects.
The atomic bomb shouldn't have been used to defeat Japan because it immediately killed an estimated 120,000 people. “On August 6, 1945, during World War II, an

American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90% of the city's population and immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people.” Enola Gay was the American bomber plane that dropped the first atomic bomb ever to he seen over Hiroshima, Japan. The 80,000 people were killed just by the explosion of the bomb, not the radiation exposure. “Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.” Wow! Only three days after the Hiroshima incident, America dropped another bomb in Nagasaki, Japan. The bomb killed an estimated 40,000 innocent people, not counting all the people who died from the radiation exposure. There is no exact count on how many people died because somebody's just disappeared when the bomb exploded. Only their ashes were left because once the bomb exploded their body's got incinerated. The U.S. basically used the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as practice places for the testing of the “cool", new, and “awesome" bomb that America just created.
The atomic bomb shouldn’t have been used to defeat Japan because it was racist to use the atomic bomb only against Japan. “The first atomic bomb test took place in July 1945, two months after he Nazi surrender in May. There is some evidence that FDR’s advisers thought about using the bomb against Germany, but by the time Truman took office, it was moot point: the Nazi’s were beaten and the invasion of Germany was winding down.” America had a chance to use the bomb against Germany but they never did. They just waited to use it against Japan. After the fact that the U.S. had already repeatedly bombed Tokyo. Due to all the bombing incidents that were going on in Japan it caused long term health effects because of the radiation exposure.
The atomic bomb shouldn’t have been used to defeat Japan because it caused long term health effects.

“Though exposure to radiation can cause acute, near-immediate effect by killing cells and directly damaging tissue, radiation can also have effects that happen on longer scale, such as cancer, by causing mutations in the DNA of living cells. A cell will either repair the gene, die, or retain the mutation, In order for a mutation to cause cancer, it is believed that a series of mutations must accumulate in given cell and it progney.” Because the bomb gave off a lot of radiation, thousands of people got exposed to it. Many people died over radiation exposure. Since he radiation causes a mess up in your DNA the radiation could pass down o your child nad your child could have radiation in their DNA, even if they were no alive during the time of the explosion. “Among the long-effects suffered by atomic bomb survivors, he most deadly is leukemia. An increase in leukemia appeared about two years after the attacks and peaked around four to six years later. For all other cancers, incidence increase did not appear until around ten years after the attacks. The increase was first noted in 1956 and soon after tumor registries were started in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki t collect data on the excess cancer risk caused by the radiation exposure.” Many kids had radiation in their DNA when they were

born.
The atomic bomb shouldn’t have been used to defeat Japan because it immediately killed an estimated 120,000 people, it was racist to use it only against Japan, and i caused long term health effects.

However, some people may say that the atomic bomb on Japan saved 500,000 to 1 million lives. “Imagine if Truman had decided to hold back. The war ends, with yet more massive bloodshed, probably at some point in 1946. Truman at some point reveals the existence of the bomb, and the president of the United States explains to thousands of grieving parents and wounded veterans that he did not use i because he thought it was too horrible to drop on the enemy, even after a sneak attack, a global war, hundreds of thousands of Americans killed and wounded in two theaters, and years of ghastly firebombing.” But then let's assume that Truman's estimates were wrong. Truman would have been risking only about 50,000 lives. There is a huge difference between 500,000 - 1 million and 50,000. So, was it really necessary for the U.S. to drop the atomic bomb on Japan to end the

war?

Works Cited

Nichols, Tom, et al. “No Other Choice: Why Truman Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan.” The National Interest, The Center for the National Interest, nationalinterest.org/feature/no-other-choice-why-truman-dropped-the-atomic-bomb-japan-13504.
“Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects.” K=1 Project, k1project.columbia.edu/news/hiroshima-and-nagasaki.
“The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Total Casualties | The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Historical Documents, www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/MED/med_chp10.shtml.
History.com Staff. “Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki.