Essay On If We Dropped The Atomic Bomb Dbq

The decision to drop an atomic bomb on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, respectively, was, simply put, a foolish, rash, and depraved action that could be classified as a diplomatic blunder, among other things; certainly it could not be seen as either a military necessity or a scientific experiment: for scientists already knew enough about their project to determine the consequences, at least in the short term, such that if the dropping was an experiment, it was the most morally depraved one ever conducted in the history of man; some historians and other contemporary world leaders apparently believed that the bomb would yield diplomatic benefits and impress the Soviets in such a way as to prevent mounting hostilities--almost fifty years of subsequent history attests to this faulty …show more content…
From a military standpoint it was not necessary as the Japanese were ready to collapse; it was only necessary in order to allow the US to get what they want. Document H speaks to this, dismissing the American claim that its use was necessary to end the war and thus causing the Document 's critique of the decision as making America "the arch-enemy of humanity" to be not far off the mark, as the evidence suggests that America cared not for Japan or its people but only for how to advance American interests. From a scientific standpoint, the power of the bomb was already known and needed not to be tested again, let alone on actual people. Finally, any positive diplomatic effects the bomb might have brought about were either nonexistent or overshadowed by the cost of the moral high-ground the US enjoyed before its use: tensions with the Soviets worsened, the Cold War became inevitable, and millions of people were affected. Thus the use of the atomic bomb was a diplomatic blunder to say the