Hiroshima

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…

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…

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’…

place at Pearl Harbor. A significant amount of Japanese civilians were wounded as a direct result of the bombings. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans were spaced out by two days as they occurred on August 6th and August 9th respectively. As a result, approximately 200,000 Japanese were wounded with 130,000 fatalities . Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were large and diverse cities that fostered the majority of Japans industrial sector in 1945 so a large scale attack such…

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…

bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Others may say that it was a bad decision due to the amount of deaths that the bombs caused or how the United States could have given a better warning. But these bombings actually saved more lives and the U.S. couldn’t waste a bomb to give a better warning. The U.S. made a good decision when it came to bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki because it ends the war, saves many lives, and stops the entry of the USSR. First, the U.S. made a good decision to bomb…

Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 6, 1945 The United States Bombed Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Japan. It was the most terrifying and deadliest thing that has happen to Japan. Killing almost three-hundred thousand people instantly. Even civilians that had nothing to do with the wrongs of Japan 's bombing to the U.S. It all started with Japan being angry with the United States, President Roosevelt ban the trade functions of Japan to export oil, steel and iron. The Japan Economy and their military were…

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are among the most horrific and devestating works of mankind. Millions of Japanese civilians were killed, their bodies either evaporating from the strength of the atomic bomb or crushed under fallen buildings. Years later, the effects of the bombings could still be observed with people dying from cancer and infants born with birth defects - all as a result of radiation. However, the bombs were used for specific purposes and answered the questions that…