Atomic Bomb Necessary

Imagine in an instant, somewhere in the world, over seventy-thousand people are wiped off the planet with their agonizing shadows in their place. Then, three days later, another forty-thousand souls are taken from the same area. That would be absolutely devastating… and it was when the United States dropped the atomic bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With such mass destruction, many come to question as to why any sane human being could come to decision— clearly, America should not have. Simply, cost and immorality that come with it could be enough for one to rethink that decision. But what may push everyone past the line is that it was probable that the bombs may have not been necessary to be used …show more content…
According to sixteen award-winning Stephen Schwartz, the price of the Manhattan Project estimated to be about one billion, eight hundred eighty-nine million, and six hundred and four thousand dollars. This made a huge dent in government funds and costed taxpayers thousands. This amount of money could have been put to better uses such as possible smaller, more efficient bombs, soldier health care, and rescue supplies. Along with government funds is the cost of lives. According to the Stanford History Education Group, there were about one hundred ninety-nine thousand casualties. That meaning both injuries and deaths, many of those deaths being of the innocent. Come to think of it, it killed Americans stationed there, tourists, and prisoners of war as well. Along with the death toll, those who lived had to deal with property loss and suffer the agony brought upon the bomb’s radiation. According to the Japanese physician who observed the affected population, it is said that, “Those who were exposed within 500 metres out of doors were killed instantly or died within four or five days. Some who were within 500 metres were protected by buildings and hence not burned. Within a period of two to 15 days, many of these people developed the so-called "radiation sickness" and died. This sickness was manifested by anorexia, vomiting, haematemesis,[vomiting blood] and …show more content…
Aboard the Enola Gay, the Superfortress bomber which dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, a journalist John Carey stated, “Does one feel any pity or compassion for the poor devils about to die? Not when one thinks of Pearl Harbor and the Death March on Bataan.” This quote is a call for vengeance. The events of Pearl Harbor apparently justifies Americans to become bringers of death ourselves and bringing the U.S. to stoop to such a level. In such history, America allowed to use the sinking of the U.S.S. Arizona as leverage to discriminate a whole population. Then Secretary of War, Henry Stimson’s words, “The face of war is the face of death; death is an inevitable part of every order that a wartime leader gives,” makes one think, “Even so, does that give any human the right to decide when the lives of others be taken away?” This somehow lets Americans set a value on the Japanese. Furthermore, Tokyo’s very own Nippon Times stated, "How can a human being with any claim to a sense of moral responsibility deliberately let loose an instrument of destruction which can at one stroke annihilate an appalling segment of mankind? This is not war: this is not even murder; this is pure nihilism. This is a crime against God and humanity which strikes at the very basis of moral existence. What meaning is there in any international law, in any rule of human conduct, in any concept of right and wrong, if the very foundations of morality are to be