Nuclear Bomb Argumentative Essay

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The tragedy of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been nearly wiped from American textbooks, as well as those in Japan, causing many people in the modern world to have little to no knowledge of the fact that nuclear warfare is not just an edgy science fiction fantasy- It was the reality of those who were unfortunate enough to be within the area of the explosions on August 6th and 9th, 1945. The statistics and testimonies given on the nuclear bombings should be more than enough to wipe the idea of the use of nuclear warfare off the list of options during times of conflict and turmoil.
In very recent news, there have been multiple threats of the use of nuclear weapons from multiple different countries. With these threats and concerns …show more content…

During World War II, the American army, as well as President Harry Truman decided that the conditional surrender of Japan was not enough to end the American-Japanese side of the war, and that if it were to end, the Japanese would have to surrender unconditionally. The Americans decided to use a recently invented super weapon, a nuclear bomb created using uranium-238. The uranium bomb was nicknamed “Little Boy” and was carried across the ocean by three American bomber planes. On August 6th, 1945, at 8:25 AM, the Little Boy dropped out of The Enola Gay, the American B-25 bomber that had carried the bomb, and exploded approximately 43 seconds later just over a small hospital in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9th, 1945, another American bomber plane had dropped the hydrogen powered nuclear bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki The blast had killed many people immediately, and left many others to perish from severe wounds, infection, famine, and acute radiation poisoning. Those that had survived the entire experience had to live with the emotional scars of having to watch their family, their friends, everything they had been familiar with, perish. The emotional toll that the bomb had taken on survivors was extremely heavy and was not often spoken of. In the documentary film, White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,a man recalls what he had first seen after he had regained consciousness after being knocked unconscious by the blast that had come from the

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