The Second World War took place between 1939 and 1945. On 7 December 1941, Japan attacked the USA’s naval base in Pearl Harbor. On 6 August 1945 and 9 August 1945, the USA dropped two atomic bombs on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively, causing around 210,000 deaths in total. Japan had no choice but to surrender and it marked the end of the world war. The bombing had a disastrous impact on Japan and many people from different nations were involved in this event. It brought long term consequences to both Japan and the USA and changed the world history.
The dropping of the atomic bombs has been argued to be the best effective way to end the war and a complete inhumane way that destroyed the world. There are a lot of controversies on …show more content…
The dropping of the atomic bombs caused starvation, crippling mutilations, psychological and emotional damages. It had killed more than 210,000 people which most of them were civilians but not military soldiers. Infrastructure was demolished and people became homeless and unemployed. Radiation released from the atomic bombs haunted survivors and brought birth defects. According to Herbert Hoover, previous President of the US, using atomic bombs had indiscriminately killed women and children. The revenge of dropping the atomic bombs by the US was too cruel and ruthless to Japan. With the huge disaster and damage brought to the social condition of Japan, the dropping of the atomic bombs should be prohibited and should not be justified even if Japan was provoking the launch of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Other than Truman’s selfishness, the result of encouraging use of heavy weapons and ethnic considerations, the dropping of the atomic bombs during the Second World War should not be justified with the consideration of Japan’s weak power, the USA’s own national desires for “revenge” and the damages brought to diplomatic relations in the long
The dropping of the atomic bombs has been argued to be the best effective way to end the war and a complete inhumane way that destroyed the world. There are a lot of controversies on …show more content…
The dropping of the atomic bombs caused starvation, crippling mutilations, psychological and emotional damages. It had killed more than 210,000 people which most of them were civilians but not military soldiers. Infrastructure was demolished and people became homeless and unemployed. Radiation released from the atomic bombs haunted survivors and brought birth defects. According to Herbert Hoover, previous President of the US, using atomic bombs had indiscriminately killed women and children. The revenge of dropping the atomic bombs by the US was too cruel and ruthless to Japan. With the huge disaster and damage brought to the social condition of Japan, the dropping of the atomic bombs should be prohibited and should not be justified even if Japan was provoking the launch of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Other than Truman’s selfishness, the result of encouraging use of heavy weapons and ethnic considerations, the dropping of the atomic bombs during the Second World War should not be justified with the consideration of Japan’s weak power, the USA’s own national desires for “revenge” and the damages brought to diplomatic relations in the long