The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings. Genocide or Not?

The United States of America’s scientists created two bombs. Not just any ordinary bombs but two atomic bombs named “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”, these names were given based on the size of each bomb. These bombs would later be used against Japan causing the death of many civilians and the surrender of Japan to the USA. On August 6, 1945 “Little Boy” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, three days later on August 9, 1945 “Fat Man” was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Even though “Fat Man” was the bigger of the two bombs, Hiroshima was so highly populated that “Little Boy” had a higher civilian death toll.

Bombing In World War II: A Necessary Evil     In the words of Franklin Roosevelt, “We seek peace-enduring peace. More than an end to the war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars” (521). The justification of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been a hotly debated topic the decades since World War II. Not only did the war mark thousands of casualties, but it also marked the impending end of one a dark period in human history. After the Pearl Harbor attack, in which Japanese forces attacked the United States military base in Hawaii in December of 1941, subsequently leading to the United States entry into World War II.

The atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki (“Little Boy and “Fat Man”) killed a total of roughly 100-110 thousand people. There were more deaths than needed. The U.S. did not inform Japan of the bombing so that the women and children could escape. The U.S. should not have used atomic bombs against Japan to end World War II.

Everybody who has learned about the bombing of Hiroshima has wondered why we did it. We have quite a few reasons to have bombed the Japanese. The Japanese bombed us first and with no real reason at all. “John Hersey states, ‘ The anger of many hibakusha, directed at first against the Americans for dropping the bomb, had by now subtly modulated toward their own government, for having involved the country in a rash and doomed aggression,’ (135). Japan’s people didn’t even agree with its government.

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Pro On August 6, 1945 during World War II the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This explosion killed about 120,000 people. Many more would later die of the radiation from the bomb. This ended the war for the U.S

Boom! Crash! Woosh! Silence. Devastation. In August 1945, two extremely powerful atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The bombing killed over one-hundred thousand people. Bombing the two cities impacted the world on a global scale, and was one of the final factors that officially ended this unbelievably devastational war. Was this deadly bombing justified? I believe the bombing was justified, for more reasons than one.

1) Hiroshima and Nagasaki Disasters August 6th 1945, an unforgettable disastrous day for Japan, the US dropped an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out many thousands of people and after the explosion the rest of the people in the Hiroshima who were thought to be survived surrendered their lives due to the radiation exposure, this atomic bomb was named as “Little Boy” even though the name sounds cute but the damage and destruction done by it was indescribable. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the cities which were chosen as they’re untouched during the war. According to the Kurzman’s opinion “The Target Committee wanted the first bomb to be sufficiently spectacular for the importance of the weapon to be internationally

On August 6th and 9th in 1945, the United States dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the end of World War II. The two bombings killed over 225,000 people, but from all the destruction that was made the death toll was impossible to count. This was named the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. Was the US justified in its use of the Atomic bomb to force Japan’s surrender in WWII or was this an act of mass killing with too much power from the United States?

In my opinion, the US was justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Firstly, the Japanese were not innocent because Japan already killed over 2,000 people at Pearl Harbor, they attacked without any warning which resulted encouraging the US to join WW2. In addition, the US did nothing to provoke the Japanese. The Japanese need to experience the horrors they’ve done to others. Secondly, The US tried to persuade the Japanese to surrender but they could never give in because the Japanese honor system taught that death was preferable than surrender, and Japanese people believed that it was a disgrace to do so. Additionally, they wanted to establish the survival

According to “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb” by Gar Alperovitz, 85% of Americans who took a poll were in agreement of the atomic bombs use saying that “the Japanese got what they deserved”, but why would any country “deserve” an atomic bomb, even if not every citizen there had done something wrong? Not all of the Japanese were evil and majority did not even a single thing to anger America in any way. Also in a poll taken in December of 1944 shows that 13% of Americans urged the “extermination of all Japanese” (Alperovitz, 428, 4), but how can this be justified in the sense that genocide is another mass killing of yet another group of people when there were already groups of people that were being killed? What justice was this to

There is a large flash,people are running and screaming down the road. You finally start to realize that it's a bomb. August 6th 1945 and August 9th,1945 an American B-29 Bomber called the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb used on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. After Japanese leaders failed to respond to the bombing, the United States dropped a larger bomb on Nagasaki August 9th. Those were the day’s those bombs killed 120,000-140,000 people, largely destroying both cities but on the bright side, it did end the war. I agree that the United States dropped the bomb on Japan, I feel that they deserved it to be honest with you. I know that sounds bad because of all the innocent civilians in there but you know what they had plenty of opportunities to surrender and they did not. The United States told them if they did not surrender, there would be utter mass put upon them. They chose to ignore it and brush it off. On December 7th, 1941 Japanese planes attacked the United States Navel base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii territory. The bombing killed more then 2,300 Americans. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was the entry of world war ll which is not right,they expect to

The estimated death toll at Nagasaki was 50,000 to 75,000, Hiroshima about 135,000 and Tokyo roughly 200,000. Roughly 400,000 innocent civilians were killed including women and children, it wasn’t necessary to bomb civilian towns so brutally. It wasn’t only the people of Japan and the world that were shocked by the bombings but a lot of Americas also felt shame, "...the Japanese were prepared to negotiate all the way from February 1945...up to and before the time the atomic bombs were dropped; ...if such leads had been followed up, there would have been no occasion to drop the [atomic] bombs."

The use of the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6th and Nagasaki on August 9th in 1945, instantly killed approximately 129,000 Japanese citizens (Hamby 2). However, despite the massive amount of lives taken, several people think it was the right decision.

On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, Japan killing 70,000 people. The atomic bomb was directly responsible for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons treaty of 1970. Although the bombing of Nagasaki was purely devastating, the United States Government claims the bomb was not inhumane but the Japanese government disagrees even though in reality the citizens were the most greatly affected.

On August 6th 1945, the first Atomic Bomb, “Little Boy,” was dropped on Hiroshima, and three days later on August 9th 1945, the second atomic bomb, “Fat Man,” was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan’s industrial capital. The decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan was a poor one considering the damage, the devastation, and the amount of people left dead, injured, or suffering the loss of a family member or a friend, all for the sake of quickly ending the ongoing War. When the Japanese had realized that they were the only ones left in the war, Germany their ally, was already beaten out of the war and all efforts were now concentrated at them, the Japanese began suing for a peaceful end to the war.