On August 6, 1945 at 8:15am history was made. The first atomic bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan. Again on August 9 a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Hundreds of thousands of people died. With hundreds of thousands more injured. These days of radioactive heat rays of more then 3000 degrees Celsius instantly burning skin, bulldozing houses and even evaporating human existence was not needed to win war over Japan, nor should it have been.

Causing a constant flow of deaths either instantaneously, or through untreatable radiation poison, these bombs were not needed. Creating cancer, leukemia, mental retardation, chromosomal "aberrations" and other lingering abnormalities, these bombs were not needed. Over 50 years later still having an operational 170 bed A-bomb hospital filled with continual suffering, these bombs were not needed.

There is questions about this incident that have been asked around the globe for centuries, "Should the United States had dropped th

Other things the United States could have done to end the war in a less fatal manner was to give the Japanese an ultimatum that included the use of a nuclear weapon. Or at least describe the destruction their "new toy" could create. Japan should have been warned. They had no idea such disaster like the Atomic bombs were being created, or for that matter could be created. President Truman didn't give Japan an ultimatum about nuclear warfare because he had a talk with former President Roosevelt's Secretary of State, "Judge" Cordell Hull, who told him, "An ultimatum for Japan would sound too much like appeasement and if it failed their would be terrible political repercussions in Congress and the press." He shared these feeling as well and wanted to keep the United States looking good at all costs. Unfortunately, it cost 140, 000 people in Hiroshima and 70, 000 people in Nagasaki their lives.

These cities A-bombed were chosen not because they were dangerous military sites, but because it was land without destruction. The fact is theses cities were filled with more civilians then Japanese army men so therefore they had been left untouched from bombings. Originally, Tokyo was suppose to be the target for the first A-bomb but due to it's previous devastation, the United States Target Committee because they agreed with Paul W. Tibbets, the man selected to drop the Atomic bombs, who suggested that, "the bomb be used on a smaller target that has not been previously damaged as to assess accurately the effects of the bomb."

1)Kawahara, Toshiaki, Hirohtito & his times, a Japanese perspective, (Tokyo/New York; Kodansha International Ltd. 1990)page 109

burnt and destroyed that one did not feel such a sense of shock. But this

War around this time had rose to a climax between the United States and Japan. The US had been bombing Japan for months from the air and on March 10, 1945 they sent 279 B29's to bomb it's capital, Tokyo, leaving 1 160 000 homeless, and 80 000 killed. The Us planes were sent to drop canisters of magnesium and phosphorous as well as jellied gasoline, other wise known as napalm, on the city. Under stiffening wind, flames fanned out rapidly and within minutes the huge fire balls torched everything in it's site. Emperor Hirohito describe the destruction created at that time by saying,

is far more tragic. It pains me deeply. Tokyo has become scorched earth."

2)Wyden, Peter, Day On - Before Hiroshima & After, (New York; Simon & Schuster Inc. 1984)page 19

President Truman did not have to use such a weapon against the Japanese. He could have ended the war simply by negotiating with the Japanese about the position the Emperor would have in the democratic society he wanted to create. All it would have taken was a talk between, but truth is, Truman wanted to see the amount of power these new A-bombs held within. Plus he wanted revenge for Pearl Harbour attack and prove that the United States still was the dominate country in the world.

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