Danny Garcia
Professor Marcy Katz
English 1101
21 November 2017
Should the United States Have Dropped the Bomb on Hiroshima?
During the end of World War Two, the United States decided to drop a bomb on Hiroshima. the bomb itself played such an important role for the United States. Many Americans debate whether Hiroshima should have been bomb during World War Two. Since the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, it made Japan surrender and avoided any more deaths, and both Japan and the United States were finally able to end the conflict between each other. Though many lives were lost due to the United States dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, it as well brought peace to the world. Nobody denies that the dropping of the bomb was inhumane and awful, for …show more content…
Similarly, Maddox stated that "Japan was willing to finally throw in the white flag as early as spring of 1945 but only if it's sacred emperor be retained as head of the Japanese polity." But all of Japan's wrongdoings started to be seen and heard all around the United States. Japanese people were viewed as vicious people and even seen as the devil itself for all the sins Japan committed. Harry A. Gailey pointed out that "remembrances of the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in China, the Pearl Harbor attack, and the brutal treatment of American prisoners at the hands of their Japanese captors probably did more to shape the United State public opinion." By dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, it put an end to the bloodthirsty …show more content…
Maddox disputed that ” The reason for using atomic weapons on Japan was not to defeat an already defeated Japan, but to make the soviet Union more “manageable” by demonstrating the enormous power now in American possession." However, the dropping of the bomb brought the war to an end quicker. By Ending the war faster, the United States was finally able to bring back home all the exhausted American soldiers. Based on the ideas of Eisei Ishikawa and David L. Swain from the article "Hiroshima and Nagasaki," "Those who dropped the first atomic bomb worked thereafter to demonstrate its destructive powers and to justify its use as a way of ending the war quickly so as to limit the number of combat
Professor Marcy Katz
English 1101
21 November 2017
Should the United States Have Dropped the Bomb on Hiroshima?
During the end of World War Two, the United States decided to drop a bomb on Hiroshima. the bomb itself played such an important role for the United States. Many Americans debate whether Hiroshima should have been bomb during World War Two. Since the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, it made Japan surrender and avoided any more deaths, and both Japan and the United States were finally able to end the conflict between each other. Though many lives were lost due to the United States dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, it as well brought peace to the world. Nobody denies that the dropping of the bomb was inhumane and awful, for …show more content…
Similarly, Maddox stated that "Japan was willing to finally throw in the white flag as early as spring of 1945 but only if it's sacred emperor be retained as head of the Japanese polity." But all of Japan's wrongdoings started to be seen and heard all around the United States. Japanese people were viewed as vicious people and even seen as the devil itself for all the sins Japan committed. Harry A. Gailey pointed out that "remembrances of the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in China, the Pearl Harbor attack, and the brutal treatment of American prisoners at the hands of their Japanese captors probably did more to shape the United State public opinion." By dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, it put an end to the bloodthirsty …show more content…
Maddox disputed that ” The reason for using atomic weapons on Japan was not to defeat an already defeated Japan, but to make the soviet Union more “manageable” by demonstrating the enormous power now in American possession." However, the dropping of the bomb brought the war to an end quicker. By Ending the war faster, the United States was finally able to bring back home all the exhausted American soldiers. Based on the ideas of Eisei Ishikawa and David L. Swain from the article "Hiroshima and Nagasaki," "Those who dropped the first atomic bomb worked thereafter to demonstrate its destructive powers and to justify its use as a way of ending the war quickly so as to limit the number of combat