Essay on Hiroshima Day

previous wars on a grand scale. Allied or Axis, no side in particular had the monopoly on causing wanton death and destruction during this period of strife. The firebombing of Dresden and the targeting of civilians in the Holocaust and bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just prove further that there was a meager worth placed on human life. The Allies, the protagonists of World War II, were also ones to meet Axis violence and cruelty with a version of fighting much similar their foe’s. Total war…

Hirohito was Japan’s Emperor and head of state during World War 2, and was on the throne during the atomic bombing as well as the postwar period, his reign ending upon his death in 1989. Hirohito condemned the use of the atomic bomb, saying in his August 14th 1945 radio broadcast after accepting the Potsdam Declaration: “The enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is, indeed, incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives. Should we continue to…

Do positive ends justify unethical means? That is a question we may all have to answer at some point in our lives. We all try to live our lives in an ethical way and uphold our moral values, but there may come a time when we will have to push these values aside to achieve the desired result. However, there is a catch, if we do not succeed, we may be condemned for our actions and ultimately lose. In the case of George Washington crossing the Delaware on December 25, 1776, to attack enemy troops…

I think that the novel is very important because it teaches us about what we do as a reaction. We take things too far we could of just sent military over there and took over them or bomb their most valuable resource. But we nuke the whole city we already knew we was more powerful than them but we had to take it to the next level. In the summer of 1945, the people of Japan were struck by a new beginning on August 6th 1945 an American fighter plane flew over the Japanese territory…

of Japan to surrender or it would mean the destruction of the Japanese armed forces and homeland. The Japanese denied the terms of surrender and proceeded to fight on. Which, in turn, led to the decision to follow through and drop “little boy” on Hiroshima. After the first bomb the Japanese denied surrender once again which forced the second dropping on Nagasaki. However, some individuals today argue the fact that the second bomb was dropped to soon following the first. One point argued is that…

Justinh Truong 25 November 2014 Opinion Paper Two atomic bombs dropped on the 6th and 9th of August 1945 annihilated all of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while killing nearly 210,000 people. “White Light Black Rain” and “Victory in the Pacific” both portray the devastating history behind the conflict between Japan and the United States. “Victory in the Pacific” examines the difficulties facing the projected U.S. assault on Japan and the suicidal mentality of the Japanese who fought with pride and…

A survivor described it as “a glimpse into the horrors of hell.” The atomic bombs that America dropped on Japan in 1945 were devastating. After the surrenders of Italy and Germany during of World War II, Japan was the only Axis country left in the war. The United States needed a plan to demolish Japan without losing American soldiers’ lives. There was only one way that appealed to them, the Atomic bomb. People say to keep your friends close, and your enemies closer, that’s why learning about…

1941 the Japanese bombed pearl harbor a day in which the United States will never forget. What the pearl harbor attack caused us to do was to join a war that the US tried to avoid from joining.1 The war which was world war 2 and which the pearl harbor attack lead to the atomic bomb coming to be cause after the pearl harbor attack the US fired back by building the world’s strongest atomic bomb created in that era which was named little boy and dropped on Hiroshima which killed 80,000 japanese…

On August 6th and 9th, 1945, about 80,000 Japanese civilians and soldiers were brutally killed in an instant by two American-made atomic bombs. Years of horrendous fallout would then follow in the wake of two of the worst man-made disasters of all time. This was the work of the many people who contributed to the Manhattan Project, which Julius Oppenheimer was chiefly involved. As the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, Julius was instrumental in the development of the world’s…

The Manhattan Project was a research and development project undertaking during World War 2 that produced the first nuclear weapons. Some people believe that the dropping of these atomic bombs and the development of the Manhattan project was very necessary and it needed to be done. But on the contrary, some think it was a waste of money, time, and it was not used for the good of the war and it was dropped on thousands of innocent people. The Manhattan Project was a great step in gaining…