Essay on Hiroshima Day

The Second World War took place between 1939 and 1945. On 7 December 1941, Japan attacked the USA’s naval base in Pearl Harbor. On 6 August 1945 and 9 August 1945, the USA dropped two atomic bombs on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively, causing around 210,000 deaths in total. Japan had no choice but to surrender and it marked the end of the world war. The bombing had a disastrous impact on Japan and many people from different nations were involved in this event. It brought long term…

This is the bomb that ended up killing over eighty thousand people who were in its proximity. On August 6th, 1945, President Harry Truman made a “difficult” decision to bomb Japanese city Hiroshima. Harry Truman recently became president days before this decision was made. Truman had two options; bomb Hiroshima or “Operation Downfall”. Both plans lead to disastrous outcomes, but the bombing had a better impact on the world. For starters,…

witness the destruction caused by the atomic bomb after the success of the Manhattan project on July 16, 1945. However, less than a month later, on August 6, the rest of the world also witnessed the power of atomic energy with the bombing of Hiroshima. Only three days later, another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and the combined casualties from the two bombs is uncertain, but are estimated to be close to two hundred thousand. President Truman violated the rights of noncombatants, thousands of…

Decades after the atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Americans still question whether it was a good idea to drop them. One of the reasons the bombs should have been dropped is the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The United States and Japan were at peace until Japan bombed a military base in Hawaii and afterward, president Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan. In his well-known infamy speech, FDR stated, “I ask that the Congress declare that since the…

States he was the vice president for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. During the 1944 presidential elections Roosevelt chose Truman to be his running mate because his former vice president, Harry Wallace, was not well liked. He was only vice president for 82 days when Roosevelt died of a stroke. When Truman came into office America was in the middle of the Second World War. The war had already been going on for six years before Truman became president. Truman was a Senator and was the leader of a…

between two terrible choices and try to determine which of those was the lesser evil, but regardless of his choice he would face criticism and be made out to be a villain. Being president forces you to make a lot of tough decisions and at the end of the day, you’re responsibility is to protect your country and their citizens. Other countries and their citizens are not your responsibility. Keeping this in mind, Truman saved a lot of American lives but he condemned a lot of Japanese people and…

children, and innocent men. In World War ll, Japan had a heavy aversion to surrender. However, the Japanese government was already on the brink of yielding- leading many american scientists to believe that it was, in fact, not necessary to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In hindsight, the U.S. was not rational in bombing the Japanese mainland, because 1) Japan was nearing complete destruction, 2) options which protected japanese families were available, 3) It is a given that the atomic bombs…

August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber drops the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. Over 90 per cent of the city is destroyed and more than 80,000 people killed in what is known as the beginning of the end of World War II in the Pacific. This bomb changed the world’s perception of war, as this was the first time nuclear weapons had been used in armed combat. Just three days later, a second B-29 bomber drops another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000…

The atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are responsible for the deaths of approximately 210,000 people that occurred in a matter of minutes. There is no doubt that its people might still have some kind of grudge towards the American public. War is war regardless of how it is conducted but the use of a weapon that is capable of wiping out an entire population is a little too extreme – especially used on innocent people and especially when its damage is still casually appearing. Japan was…

immortal icon for many film industries. To begin with, Godzilla is a fictional gigantic dinosaur-like monster known as a Kaiju (meaning strange beast in Japanese’s genre) and its origin derived from Japan almost nine years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. As time progressed recognition and imitation of Kaiju-like Godzilla quickly rose to popularity, one of such example is a Pulgasari, a giant bull-like monster created…