During World War II the world was advancing quickly in the realms of science specifically, science that had to do with weapons, the largest of these advancements was the creation of atomic bomb, this is undeniably the deadliest weapon in human history, the splitting of the atom, the smallest substance of matter, can cause an unimaginable amount of destruction. Since the bombs creation the world has generally come to the consensus that it is unethical, and immoral for a country to use it against someone else. However, there always has to be an exception, and that exception is of course the United States when they dropped the bomb on Japan at the end of World War 2. President Truman justified his decision to drop the bomb by claiming that it
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The U.S government stated that the reasoning for choosing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was due to them being classified as legitimate military targets, yet in truth there were little military personnel within both cities. Even though Hiroshima was home to the Japanese Second Army HQ only about 10,000 of the estimated 17,000 deaths were military servicemen, in Nagasaki there were even less, an approximate 150 military members perished out of the 80,000 total casualties that come out to be 95% civilian casualties (The Truth About the Bombing). The worst has yet to come, when the bomb detonated the “heart of the explosion reached a temperature of several million degrees centigrade” all people within a half a mile radius were killed instantaneously, around 63% of the buildings, and 92% of all structures within Hiroshima were annihilated (The Truth About the Bombing). Those who were not killed the first day, yet still in the blast radius, died shortly after from severe burns, those who were only in the radiation radius died weeks to month to years after from too much radiation, and women who were pregnant gave birth to still borns, or children with serious birth defects (The Truth About the Bombing). The truth is, is that the bombs are not a one and done type thing it is a long drawn out process that people decades later are still affected by. This is why it is so baffling that the most advanced society both materially and intellectually could make one of the most blatant acts of barbarism throughout world
The U.S government stated that the reasoning for choosing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was due to them being classified as legitimate military targets, yet in truth there were little military personnel within both cities. Even though Hiroshima was home to the Japanese Second Army HQ only about 10,000 of the estimated 17,000 deaths were military servicemen, in Nagasaki there were even less, an approximate 150 military members perished out of the 80,000 total casualties that come out to be 95% civilian casualties (The Truth About the Bombing). The worst has yet to come, when the bomb detonated the “heart of the explosion reached a temperature of several million degrees centigrade” all people within a half a mile radius were killed instantaneously, around 63% of the buildings, and 92% of all structures within Hiroshima were annihilated (The Truth About the Bombing). Those who were not killed the first day, yet still in the blast radius, died shortly after from severe burns, those who were only in the radiation radius died weeks to month to years after from too much radiation, and women who were pregnant gave birth to still borns, or children with serious birth defects (The Truth About the Bombing). The truth is, is that the bombs are not a one and done type thing it is a long drawn out process that people decades later are still affected by. This is why it is so baffling that the most advanced society both materially and intellectually could make one of the most blatant acts of barbarism throughout world