The Pros And Cons Of Atomic Bombing

One reason many historians claim that Japan was ready to surrender before the atomic bombs were dropped is, it was immoral for the United States to drop the two atomic bombs on Japan because they instantly killed tens of thousands of innocent people, including women, children and elderly. The logic behind the bombs was that if the U.S. tried to invade Japan on the ground, the number of American casualties would be unnecessarily high, and therefore going about it by dropping a bomb was a better idea. However, over many years, many stories from survivors of the bombings have come forward and shared their experience, sharing horrific details of what the remember. One of those people is named John A. Siemens and he stated in his story, “600 students of the Protestant girls' school worked in a factory, from which only thirty to forty returned. Most of the peasant families in the neighborhood lost one or more of their members who had worked at factories in the city.” So many people lost their family members because of this, and a lot of the children were already at school when the bombs were dropped. …show more content…
Siemens also states later in his story an approximate number of Japanese deaths. “Those who had lived through the catastrophe placed the number of dead at at least 100,000. Hiroshima had a population of 400,000. Official statistics place the number who had died at 70,000 up to September 1st, not counting the missing ... and 130,000 wounded, among them 43,500 severely wounded.” The numbers he stated here are horrific, knowing that a majority of them are innocent people who didn’t deserve to lose their