Hiroshima Bombing Justified Essay

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only times that atomic weapons have been used. To access whether the attacks were justified we need to consider at least two eyewitness accounts; which are available through the access to the media more precisely a particular issue of the New Yorker which had John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” taking up the entire magazine. The article only covers the bombing of Hiroshima, but since the bombing of Nagasaki was a plutonium bomb and more power we can assume that the aftermath of it was worse than the aftermath of Hiroshima.
There were many victims of the unprecedented atomic attack by the United States against the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Yet, I only need to use two of the four victims in John Hersey’s article "Hiroshima." I have chosen to use Miss Toshiko Sasaki and Dr. Masakazu Fujii as the two eye-witnesses of the devastation from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Per Hersey’s article Miss Toshiko Sasaki was, “a clerk in the personnel department at the East Asia Tin Works,” and Dr. Masakazu Fujii who owned a private hospital (Hersey, I). Compared to most people of Hiroshima Dr. Masakazu Fujii had a more luxurious leisurely lifestyle. He generally did not get up till around nine to nine-thirty. Luckily for him had had to see off a visitor. Therefore, he was up by six in the morning and was back home by seven (Hersey, 22). …show more content…
There could be no clearer example of hypocrisy than that statement. The devastation spoken of by Miss Toshiko Sasaki and Dr. Masakazu Fujii is unimaginable to someone from America. What we all must remember also is that we would not know of the devastation without the help of a free and impartial