WW2
Was the US justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the second world war? Discuss the benefits and costs that resulted.
In 1945 the world changed. The war was raging on but in just a few seconds hundreds of thousands were instantly silenced. Japan surrenders on September the 2nd nearly a month after the atom bombs dropped. Till this day the morality of whether the bombs were justified are still hotly debated. Although saving millions of ally forces, giving enough influence to move dangerous countries around post war and ensuring the immediate surrender of Japan would have been possible without them.
The invasion of Normandy had cost half a million casualties between the allies and the German forces. Where 200,000 Japanese and Allied forces had already lost their lives in the Pacific before any actual invasion had …show more content…
But has everyone forgotten every single war crime the Japanese has done? The atom bombs have a combined casualty rate of 200,000. The endeavours of the Japanese army in Nanking, a single city, was 300,000 alone. Unlike the atom bombs that evaporated everything in it’s path resulting in an instant death, the massacre of Nanking, also known as the rape of Nanking involved being buried alive, decapitation by katana, which was also turned into a famous game where the aim was to get the most heads of the chinese, bayonet practices on live prisoners, gang rape, with girls as young as 8 dragged away to be abused. Even pregnant women were not spared, they were raped and mutilated and killed. This is only a small portion of what they did in Nanking. And we’re talking one city out of the many countries they defaced. With a result of approximately 8 million innocent lives taken by the Japanese army. And to think people really can justify the bombings as
Was the US justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the second world war? Discuss the benefits and costs that resulted.
In 1945 the world changed. The war was raging on but in just a few seconds hundreds of thousands were instantly silenced. Japan surrenders on September the 2nd nearly a month after the atom bombs dropped. Till this day the morality of whether the bombs were justified are still hotly debated. Although saving millions of ally forces, giving enough influence to move dangerous countries around post war and ensuring the immediate surrender of Japan would have been possible without them.
The invasion of Normandy had cost half a million casualties between the allies and the German forces. Where 200,000 Japanese and Allied forces had already lost their lives in the Pacific before any actual invasion had …show more content…
But has everyone forgotten every single war crime the Japanese has done? The atom bombs have a combined casualty rate of 200,000. The endeavours of the Japanese army in Nanking, a single city, was 300,000 alone. Unlike the atom bombs that evaporated everything in it’s path resulting in an instant death, the massacre of Nanking, also known as the rape of Nanking involved being buried alive, decapitation by katana, which was also turned into a famous game where the aim was to get the most heads of the chinese, bayonet practices on live prisoners, gang rape, with girls as young as 8 dragged away to be abused. Even pregnant women were not spared, they were raped and mutilated and killed. This is only a small portion of what they did in Nanking. And we’re talking one city out of the many countries they defaced. With a result of approximately 8 million innocent lives taken by the Japanese army. And to think people really can justify the bombings as