Argumentative Essay: The Bombing Of Hiroshima

Many evils in the past are masqueraded to hide the reality. Many of the Japanese now do not know about Hiroshima. Even most of the youth of America do not realize how horrible the reality of Hiroshima was. They know facts out of books, the statistics, but not the point of view from the citizens of Hiroshima. “We consider numbers instead of pain.” (Berger, 241). The tragedy that Hiroshima went through was similar to victims of the black plague. It was a literal hell on Earth. Everyone notices it was something horrible, but it does not hit that many people. This results into seeing the true colors of human beings, seeing them not help others and only themselves. Exiling the sick and giving up at the first sign of sickness. The wrongdoings that are done by people are masked as innocence. Evils in the past more times than not get masked from the youth other …show more content…
There is the side where we believe it was a positive thing to bomb Hiroshima and that it stopped the war, or that it was simply an act of terrorism. John Berger explains in his report of Hiroshima, “The political and military arguments have concerned such issues as deterrence, defense systems, relative strike parity, tactical nuclear weapons, and –– pathetically–– so-called civil defense.” (Berger, 239). The military should not have to fall back on nuclear weapons to get what they want, even if it is for stopping the war. The military, just like the government, hides behind this innocent mask to make it look like they did the right thing. That they were not at fault. The American government made it so that even though their attempt at stopping the war was extreme, it hid the fact it was an act of terrorism. “What happened on that day was, of course, neither the beginning nor the end of the act. It began months, years before, with the planning of the action, and the eventual final decision to drop two bombs on Japan.” (Berger,