Compare And Contrast Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Towards the end of World War II, the Allies were winning territory from Japan, but at terrible costs. A drastic measure was required to end the war quickly: the atomic bomb. Although the Germans were working on the atomic bomb years before, American scientists were the first to create one that was full-functioning. In the summer of 1945, President Truman decided, after consulting with his advisors, that the atomic bomb would be dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Due to Japan's persistent refusal to surrender, the atomic bomb's use on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the quickest way to end the war, making the atomic bomb's use justifiable.

Although it would prove deadly to the Japanese, the atomic bomb was also the
While some may use such evidence to claim that the atomic bomb resulted in an unnecessarily high death toll, an even higher death toll would have resulted if the atomic bomb was not used. This is because the Japanese were working on plague bombs – bombs that could spread plagues across a large distance from the area they exploded. In 1985, The New York Times published a newspaper article which stated that “...the Japanese Imperial Army conducted research by experimenting on humans and by "field testing" plague bombs by dropping them on Chinese cities to see whether they could start plague outbreaks.” Because these tests proved successful, the Japanese could have dropped plague bombs in the United States if given the chance. By dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US was preventing Japan from ever using the plague bomb, which would have taken many more lives than the atomic bomb, since the foreign disease could travel from person to person very