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In order to end WWII, the world’s most infamous war, drastic measures had to be taken to restore peace, such as the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japanese cities by the United States. However, that particular decision by America, clearly caused more harm than good. Many reasons make this claim true, one being the excess amount of destruction and killing the bombs caused and another being the influence this act left on the world. Dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not the solution the world needed to end WWII. After the needless ravaging of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the atomic bombs, the cities found themselves in horrible states of chaos and destruction. For one, a needless amount of people died instantaneously. As shown in “Table A: …show more content…

clearly isn’t justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Japanese cities, but there must be reasons why they did so anyways. Maybe they simply felt tired of their fear of kamikaze planes constantly putting their safety in jeopardy (document 3). Maybe they just wanted to give the Japanese the same inhumane treatment they were giving the Chinese in Nanking (document 1). Still, what they did was much worse than what the Japanese did and extraordinarily reckless. Undoubtedly, they had better solutions they could’ve taken. For example, since every other country formerly part of the Axis Powers had surrendered, they could’ve used threatened Japan with the combined militaries of all the Allies’ militaries. They said, “Therefore we recommend that before this weapon be used without restriction…its powers should be…demonstrated, and the Japanese nation should be given the opportunity to consider the consequences of further refusal to surrender.” This approach also would’ve been supported by international law, and it wouldn’t have introduced atomic warfare to the world. Who knows what the U.S. government was thinking when they decided to drop their atomic bombs, but it is clear that they acted

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