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    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…

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    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…

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    I personally think that we should not have nuclear bombs in today's citie. There are many problems with Nuclear bombs one of them is if someone dangerous decides to use them. What if Kim Jong Un is a unstable sociopath. If he had decided to detonate some of his bombs on America like he has threatened to on multiple occasions. Another situation would be if terrorists got their hands on a nuke. Just think all the destruction they did with planes, now think what they could do with a nuke.…

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    public, we have the opportunity to inform ourselves of the consequences of past actions which we can use this insight by avoiding future failures and calamities in future decision making. Such events discussed in class includes the usage of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to conclude largest war known to mankind. Analyzing various resources from this event raises many issues regarding to the bombings and whether or not a different tactic should have been considered. I have the benefit…

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    The dropping of the atomic bombs on japan by the US government on the 6th and 9th of august 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki may not be seen as the right choice when ethically looking upon the situation that the united states was presented with at the time. Although the decisions of the US were not ethically justified, the circumstances in which they found them selves in made their actions appropriate in the sense of saving their counties name and regaining their power after the Pearl Harbor…

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    Was It Necessary For the United States to Drop the Atomic Bomb? “It’s funny, but things don’t matter anymore. Yesterday, my shoes were my most important possessions. Today, I don 't care.” Against the Use of the Bomb: Legality- One of the first notable things that should have discouraged the decision to use the atomic bomb was that the use of it was illegal. In September of 1938, the League of Nations recognized the principles of international law, which included an unanimous decision to…

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    Immagine if the controversy and devastation from the first nuclear bombs came back, but worse? Well, they are because a group of scientists believe that they have discovered a weapon of mass destruction more powerful than the any nuclear weapon we currently have. A nuclear bomb is an explosive device that gets its energy from nuclear reactions occurring inside the bomb. The reason why it was so controversial is because the destructive power of this weapon is massive. The first time it was used,…

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    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…

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    dropped the bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan; it left the world in utter shock as to what modern warfare had come to. The world today now views and controls the use of nuclear weapons differently due to the impact of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6th, 1945 history was made when the “Little Boy”, an atomic bomb, was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Two days later on August 8, 1946 the “Fat Man” bomb successfully dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Those bombs…

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    Great Lakes area and the majority of the Northeast temperatures are expected stay 30 degrees below average from the result of the “bomb cyclone”. A bomb cyclone occurs when the atmospheric pressure drops so quickly that the weather system increases rapidly in strength and brings high winds. The pressure has to drop at least 24 millibars in 24 hours to create a bomb cyclone and the storm can cause costal flooding and blizzard like conditions during the winter. The storm, Grayson, blew the…

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