Atomic Bomb Essay

You have heard two reasons why dropping the atomic bombs in Japan was not justified and unnecessary. But perhaps the most compelling reasons why dropping the bomb was not justified is that the United States was weeks or months away from Japan surrendering and the war ending before dropping the bombs and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people. As you will hear from General Mitsuru Ushijima, Japan was already losing the war. The country was surrounded by US troops, Americans…

WW2 Was the US justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the second world war? Discuss the benefits and costs that resulted. In 1945 the world changed. The war was raging on but in just a few seconds hundreds of thousands were instantly silenced. Japan surrenders on September the 2nd nearly a month after the atom bombs dropped. Till this day the morality of whether the bombs were justified are still hotly debated. Although saving millions of ally forces, giving enough…

Justice or Not? In August 6, 1945 the US decided to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima not so long after followed the 2nd bombing on Nagasaki. This was the first time nuclear weapons were used to devastate the enemy. The first city lost 80,000 Japanese lives and in Nagasaki 3 days after lost 40,000 people. Many US citizens question whether or not this was avoidable but the final choice was made by Truman believing that this would end the war which it did but at the cost of so many innocent lives…

Japan was coming. The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki within a few days of each other. Japan did not surrender after the first bomb, but a day after the second bomb dropped Japan surrendered. A lot of conflict and controversy circles around if the U.S. should or should not have dropped the atomic bomb. Dropping the atomic bomb helped Americans in many ways and put an end to the Second World War. By dropping the bombs, the U.S. knew it would end the war quickly…

How many million people one bomb can effect. In this world there are events that take place that should never have happened (K. Gay). The development and dropping of the atomic bomb of japan was a key moment in WWII because it ended the war. First the development and dropping of the atomic bomb of Japan was a key moment in history because it ended the war. Next the Manhattan project was important in WWII because they created the atomic bomb. Where did the atomic bomb take creation take place?…

that list of countries because they found the answer: the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb is a devastating weapon full of tons upon tons of TNT. The creation of the atomic bomb showed what the world was like during its era, how the U.S compared to other countries and how powerful it truly was compared to many weapons used during the wars. During the years starting with World War II in…

Atomic Bomb The congregation of the Atomic Bomb is possibly one of the greatest moments of triumph in American history. When president Truman decided to drop the A-bomb, he had to think very carefully about his decision. Truman was morally, politically, and strategically right in dropping the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The time is 1945, WWII. The ETO is wrapping up and finishing, but the Japanese are not going down without a fight. They continue to wage war against the U.S. even though we…

The atomic bomb was developed at the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the lead researcher of the project was physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. In my opinion, I think that the dropping of the atomic bomb was and was not heroic. I think that it was heroic because President Truman was told that with the dropping of the atomic bomb, and many supported it due to what happened at the attacks of Pearl Harbor, which the United States was supposedly neutral at the time. But the dropping of the…

The decision to use the atomic bomb posed several significant moral dilemmas for President Harry S. Truman, among these were justifications, alternatives, and complications of the situation. After Teddy Roosevelt 's death, Truman was the new president with a huge decision to make only a few months after. People felt Truman was an insecure man and poorly informed by Roosevelt until his entry to the presidency. It was months later that he learned of America’s dark secret, the Manhattan Project.…

The atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The bomb was created and dropped to defeat Japan and Defend the United States. There have been many debates on whether the bomb should have been dropped or not. The bomb should have been dropped because it saved many American lives, Japan had a warning to surrender, Japan did many bad things to the Chinese and the Americans and America has had enough. President Truman ordering for the atomic bomb to be dropped…