Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The Rwandan Genocide in 1994, and the Genocide of Muslims in Bosnia. On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.The United State of America dropped a nuclear bomb on these 2 cities killing more than 300,000 people most of them children, women and old people. On december,7,1941 japan bombed Pearl Harbor in an attempt to disable the American army to give the enough time to take over the dutch east indies and use it’s resources to finish war.There has always been a debate on the necessity of the bomb, but its implications were so severe that such an attack has never been carried out again. Let us examine some of the arguments for and against the bomb.In estimating the death toll from the attacks, there are several factors that make it difficult to arrive at reliable figures: inadequacies in the records given the confusion of the times, the many victims who died months or years after the bombing as a result of radiation exposure, and not least, the pressure to either exaggerate or minimize the numbers, depending upon political agenda. That said, it is estimated that by December 1945, as many as 140,000 had died in Hiroshima by the bomb and its associated effects. In …show more content…
The Allies, consisting of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union in essence, realised that Japan was ready to fight until there was mass destruction of the country or a military coup overthrew the emperor Hirohito. Hiroshima was the primary target of the U.S.No, anyone from the outside had tried to stop the genocide,because the war between them was hard. the U.S,won after Japan surrendered they were hardly in a position to push for a punishment,it was illegal in the first
The Rwandan Genocide in 1994, and the Genocide of Muslims in Bosnia. On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.The United State of America dropped a nuclear bomb on these 2 cities killing more than 300,000 people most of them children, women and old people. On december,7,1941 japan bombed Pearl Harbor in an attempt to disable the American army to give the enough time to take over the dutch east indies and use it’s resources to finish war.There has always been a debate on the necessity of the bomb, but its implications were so severe that such an attack has never been carried out again. Let us examine some of the arguments for and against the bomb.In estimating the death toll from the attacks, there are several factors that make it difficult to arrive at reliable figures: inadequacies in the records given the confusion of the times, the many victims who died months or years after the bombing as a result of radiation exposure, and not least, the pressure to either exaggerate or minimize the numbers, depending upon political agenda. That said, it is estimated that by December 1945, as many as 140,000 had died in Hiroshima by the bomb and its associated effects. In …show more content…
The Allies, consisting of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union in essence, realised that Japan was ready to fight until there was mass destruction of the country or a military coup overthrew the emperor Hirohito. Hiroshima was the primary target of the U.S.No, anyone from the outside had tried to stop the genocide,because the war between them was hard. the U.S,won after Japan surrendered they were hardly in a position to push for a punishment,it was illegal in the first