Hiroshima and Nagasaki Have you ever wondered what would have happen if the United States had not dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Who knows how long World War II could have gone on for? What country would have used nuclear warfare first, and who would they have used it on? All questions that will never be answered because the United States did drop the bombs on Japan. The United States did the right thing dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the bombs lead to the end of World War II. “No one is 100 percent certain of the number of people who died in World War 2 but it experts believe the figure is around the 50-70 million people killed in as a result of World War 2(worldwar2.org)”. Imagine if the war had kept
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On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay left the island of Tinian for Hiroshima, Japan. The uranium 235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy, exploded at 8:16 a.m. In an instant 80,000 to 140,000 people were killed and 100,000 more were seriously injured. The blast wave shattered windows for a distance of ten miles and was felt as far away as 37 miles. Hiroshima had disappeared under a thick, churning foam of flames and smoke. (Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered Para 1)
The destruction that the bombs caused was devastating and was not imagined. Even though the United States won the war, what was the cost of the victory? The cost of inhumane thing, the killing of innocent civilians, we made people suffer great loss, pain and destruction. Also some might say that the United States did not have to drop both atomic bombs on Japan, that one would have done the job, but one cannot be so certain about …show more content…
To this day, no nuclear bomb has been dropped on another nation because of the fear of starting a nuclear war and destroying the world. The closest the world has come to nuclear war was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a period of time where the world was on the brink of nuclear war; Cuba had become a communist nation and asked the U.S.S.R for help protecting them from the United States. The problem quickly escalated after that. The USSR and United States both had chances to send nuclear bombs to the other nation, but neither did. They did not because they feared what would have happened if they did. As the leaders of the two nations kept their fingers over the button to send the bombs over they kept Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the back of their minds. Imagine if the Allied powers won the war without the use of the atomic bombs. Would the cold war have been a cold war, would weapons have been used instead? Could the United States or the U.S.S.R have used an atomic bomb on the other nation? Even if the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not the moral thing to do, you have to look on the positive side of things. Somebody had to be used as an example to show what nuclear warfare was capable of. Now every nation has a form of nuclear warfare but nobody has used it. During the
On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay left the island of Tinian for Hiroshima, Japan. The uranium 235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy, exploded at 8:16 a.m. In an instant 80,000 to 140,000 people were killed and 100,000 more were seriously injured. The blast wave shattered windows for a distance of ten miles and was felt as far away as 37 miles. Hiroshima had disappeared under a thick, churning foam of flames and smoke. (Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered Para 1)
The destruction that the bombs caused was devastating and was not imagined. Even though the United States won the war, what was the cost of the victory? The cost of inhumane thing, the killing of innocent civilians, we made people suffer great loss, pain and destruction. Also some might say that the United States did not have to drop both atomic bombs on Japan, that one would have done the job, but one cannot be so certain about …show more content…
To this day, no nuclear bomb has been dropped on another nation because of the fear of starting a nuclear war and destroying the world. The closest the world has come to nuclear war was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a period of time where the world was on the brink of nuclear war; Cuba had become a communist nation and asked the U.S.S.R for help protecting them from the United States. The problem quickly escalated after that. The USSR and United States both had chances to send nuclear bombs to the other nation, but neither did. They did not because they feared what would have happened if they did. As the leaders of the two nations kept their fingers over the button to send the bombs over they kept Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the back of their minds. Imagine if the Allied powers won the war without the use of the atomic bombs. Would the cold war have been a cold war, would weapons have been used instead? Could the United States or the U.S.S.R have used an atomic bomb on the other nation? Even if the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not the moral thing to do, you have to look on the positive side of things. Somebody had to be used as an example to show what nuclear warfare was capable of. Now every nation has a form of nuclear warfare but nobody has used it. During the