Compare And Contrast Essay On Hiroshima And Nagasaki

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki occured on August 6 and April 9 1945, but the act was not justified. World War II had been going on for 8 years before the United States decided to bomb the Japanese. For 8 years men had been dying, for 8 years war crimes had been happening, and for 3 years leading up to World War II the rest up the world had done nothing to prevent the war. Yet, on August 6 and August 9 1945 the US decided that the war had to end. The use of atomic bombs on Japan was not necessary. The war had been going on for 8 years before the US decided to not only count their casualties but also Japan’s casualties. The US decided in 2 short months that the atomic bombs were necessary, but the world had been ending wars for centuries without them. Previous wars had ended without atomic bombs, World War I for example, and the United States did not need to end World War II with an atomic bomb. Secretary of War Henry Stimson says that the bomb was not necessary because the Japanese were ready to surrender. Battles occured where the Japanese would lose 98% of their men, but

Leo Szilard, a scientist who helped create the Manhattan Project, advocates that dropping the bombs was immoral. The Japanese, in the America’s eye, were terrible, untrustworthy and unable to give in. The worst countries don’t deserve to have 80,000 people die from two atomic bombs. 80,000 Japanese citizens were killed by the US and they didn’t even see it coming. The force of the atomic bomb was like nothing people around the world had ever seen before and to strike a country twice with its power is immoral, and did not conform with national moral standards. Wars had always been fought with gun and tanks, and that what was collectively agreed to be moral. The atomic bomb was immoral because the world had never seen an object that could kill 40,000 men, women, and children at one time. An act cannot be moral if the country doesn’t know what will hit