Harry Truman, came forth and announced to the entire world that the U.S. had dropped an atomic bomb on a Japanese city known as Hiroshima. This bomb was called “Little Boy” and had the power of over 20,000 tons on TNT. With this great power it absolutely destroyed majority of Hiroshima and has been estimated to have killed over 130,000 people. It wasn’t but three days later that the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb called “Fat Man” on another Japanese City known as Nagasaki. It was estimated that “Fat
At the end of WW II in the summer 1945, most American’s saw an ultimate reason for President Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. They were confident that the application of atomic bombings would end up the war faster. At that, they forgot about horrific consequences of more than thousands of innocent deaths. The counter argument in this context was that Japan made the attack on the United States. After the horrible event, Americans questioned themselves whether Truman really
Truman to use atomic weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was no different. Did the U.S. absolutely need to engage in nuclear warfare? Was it morally right to bomb civilians? Did the U.S. ignore jus in bello? Many historians have differentiating views regarding the use of atomic weapons, some arguing that the atomic bombs ended the war while others maintain that the bombings only accelerated Japan’s defeat, which many viewed an an inevitable outcome. The use of atomic weapons on
not the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was morally acceptable. There is evidence that creates arguments for both sides. To fully understand whether the dropping of the atomic bombs was morally correct, it is important to look at the events that led up to dropping the bombs as well as the events after. I believe that it was morally correct to drop the first atomic bomb, Little Boy, on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945; I do not believe that dropping the second atomic bomb, Fat Man, on Nagasaki
History 8 June 2015 Why the Atomic Bomb Should have been Dropped On August 6 and August 9 of 1945, perhaps the most controversial war decision in American history took place. This decision was deciding to drop the atomic bombs in Hiroshima, Japan on the sixth and Nagasaki, Japan on the ninth. Killing thousands of individuals instantaneously with Japan’s army in a weak state, many argue that the bombings were unnecessary. Despite these arguments, the dropping of the atomic bombs was both necessary and
dropped the Little Boy, a Uranium gun-type nuclear bomb on the city of Hiroshima, and three days after when another nuclear weapon was exploded at Nagasaki, the debate over whether these bombs were justified has been proceeding vigorously. These bombs had a combined blast yeild of 37000 tonnes of TNT. Together they killed between 150000 and 250000 Japanese people, most of which were civilians, including women and children. These nuclear bombs,the only two to ever be used against another country