Justification of the Atomic Bomb
On August 6th, 1945 the United States dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. This military strategy was extremely controversial in the United States. The question I wish to answer is, "Was the United States justified in the dropping of the atomic bomb?" The answer to this question is yes. I believe they were for many reasons. The main reason was that this bomb would ultimately end the war. Why did the war need to be stopped so badly? In some ways it was helping the United States' economy, but mostly it was very costly in both lives and money. Another main reason this war needed to be stopped was to defend America from another attack on our own soil, which would kill many of our people. These are just a couple examples that can be used to prove the use of the atomic bomb was justifiable. In the following paragraphs I will provide more reasons why the use of the atomic bomb was very justifiable. World War II proved to be very costly to the United States. According to lives lost, it was the costliest war in history. There were about 15 or 20 million military personnel killed in the war. Of these, about 293,300 were Americans, and our enemies murdered about 7,000 innocent United States citizens. It has been estima
My grandpa was 19-years-old when the atomic bomb was dropped. After talking to my grandpa about the situation, I was able to see his point of view. He believed that President Truman had many very good reasons for dropping the bomb, but he personally still remained divisive to the decision. One reason he questioned using the bomb was because he was afraid that we had opened up a new nuclear age. He had great fear and anxiety regarding dropping the bomb. He did think that it the crew dropped the bomb, which it did, it would make world peace almost impossible and we would always live in fear. From my discussion with him, it seemed as though a major feeling of fear came from the dropping of the bomb. He was however, very happy that the war ended and we came out a dominant power after the war. Every nation wants to be in peace with fellow nations, but there has never been a time when the world was completely free from war. Therefore, peaceful nations must always have an adequate military force in order to defeat the destructive designs of other nations. Therefore, the United States was correct in using whatever means necessary to defeat the Japanese empire. This included using superior and more powerful weaponry-not only to defeat Japan, but to sufficiently maintain peace to guarantee its own existence. A long and costly conflict is a wasteful use of a nation's resources when quicker means are available. It is clear that an all-out U.S. invasion on Japan would have risked the victory already gained in Europe and in the face of the Soviet domination threat. One goal of war is victory with not many losses on one's own side and, if possible, your enemy's side. It was clear that the Japanese military was prepared to fight to the last man to defend their home islands, and indeed had already proved determined in previous island campaigns. One thing many people do not know is that there was a weapon which was originally developed to contain a Nazi atomic project and would have spared Americans hundreds of thousands of causalities in an invasion of Japan, and also saved several times more than that among Japanese soldiers and people if it were used. The thousands who died in the atomic attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were much less than would have died in an allied invasion, and their abrupt deaths convinced the Japane
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