Hiroshima

Ever since the atomic bombs were exploded over Japanese cities, historians, social scientists, journalists, World War II veterans, and ordinary citizens have engaged in intense controversy about the events of August 1945. John Hersey’s Hiroshima, first published in the New Yorker in 1946 encouraged unsettled readers to question the bombings while church groups and some commentators, most prominently Norman Cousins, explicitly criticized them. Former Secretary of War Henry Stimson found the…

regular day for some families go off to work and expect to be back home with their families, but for people in Hiroshima, Japan most families never got to see each other again. This is because this was the day we dropped a bomb called Enola Gay, but mostly known by the name of "Little boy". A Enola Gay is an American B-29 bomb that weighs about 10,000 pounds. When this bomb was dropped in Hiroshima everything within a certain radius had dissolved into small ashes. This first bomb killed 80,000…

In “From Hiroshima Diary” by Michihiko Hachia and “The Price We Pay” by Adam Mayblum, both authors tell about their personal experiences during attacks they were both victims in. Throughout their stories both authors experience many challenges they had during the attacks, they similarly conclude that they were both thankful and lucky to be alive. However, while Hachia was a doctor during the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, Mayblum was an associate who worked at one of the World Trade Center. Both…

breathing cities were just completely blown off the map with only two bombs. Some see the dropping of the bombs a fitting retaliation against the Japanese and some see it as necessary for stopping the war. Regardless, the dropping of the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an event that shook the entire world. It is estimated that more than 200,000 people died between the two cities with more than half of the deaths occurring due to radiation sickness and other injuries after the…

will visit Hiroshima, Japan. Make no mistake, there will be no apologies. And, there will be no excuses from the President. That is okay with Japanese people even if it is not right. A Japan Times poll shows that 64% of Japanese people hope that Obama does not apologize. In a related poll, 80% of the hibakusha, survivors of the Hiroshima atomic blast in August of 1945, are not looking for an apology from President Obama. The President will spend a few brief moments touring Hiroshima, and…

Was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary ? Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed by the United States of America because they wanted to end WWII. The United States of America had a project that was named Manhattan Project.The Manhattan Project was about the bombs that Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped the outcome of the WWII. There are many reasons to why the United States of America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some of those reasons are…

The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Abhorrent but Necessary On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima, Japan went up in smoke when “Little Boy,” an atomic bomb developed in the secretive Manhattan Project, was dropped. Three days later, the atomic bomb dubbed “Fat Man” obliterated another Japanese city, Nagasaki. The bombing itself and its effect on survivors’ health was devastating, and President Truman’s decision to drop the bombs remains highly controversial 71 years later. In fact, Naji…

second World War, faced with the issue of Japan’s refusal to surrender and cease fighting, President Harry Truman ordered for the use of atomic bombs, and on August 6 and 9 of 1945, two nuclear weapons were detonated over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombs killed at least 129,000 people, a majority of them civilians. Since then, there has been much controversy concerning the ethical and military justifications of the bombings, with many defending the United States’…

In the winter of 2009, I have stayed in Hiroshima for three days for traveling. On the final day of staying, I visited Genbaku Dome. It is a building which miraculously survived the explosion of an atomic bomb in 1945, and the government of Hiroshima city is still maintaining it as a memorial. When I visited there, I keenly felt the pain of war and the cruelty of nuclear weapons. Even though the building is still alive now, the victims who were around there were killed at the moment of the…

Colonel Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay. (Document L) The Enola Gay was the plane that dropped the first atomic weapon on Hiroshima. The Colonel was saying that if they had not dropped that bomb, it would have killed more of their men (the Americans), which would have been morally wrong because you are supposed to do what’s best for your team or army. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were definitely a Military Necessity because as stated earlier, a minimum of a million more people…