Ethical Effects Of The Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Ethics, is a major branch of knowledge that relates to the moral principles that govern an individual’s behavior. They affect individuals in decision making and lead their lives. There are some issues of ethics arise due to the decision making of a government and cause a huge effect to the society. One example of these issues is the unethical of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The first atomic bombing “Little Boy” was detonated over Hiroshima, after 3 days, the “Fat man” bomb was detonated over another place which is Nagasaki. The exploded of the “Little Boy” instantly killed 14000 people and seriously injured which causes long term effect on health about 100000 and more. In Nagasaki, more than 40% of the city was destroyed, roughly 74000 people died of the bomb. U.S. President Harry S.Truman, was the one who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs in Japan. This was due to they believed that bombing was to bring a quick resolution of the war of Tokyo (Japan) to other countries, it was
The judgment was really harmed to the society where it brings many negative impacts to the survivors. However, the unconditional surrender of Tokyo relief hundreds of millions of their neighbors, such as Korea, Manchuria, China, French Indochina, Malaya and Burma, who had suffered terribly at the hand of Japanese conqueror. Thus, it has become a controversial issue. Just like what Thomas Sowell said, “Morality is about what you do to people, not technology you use.” However, there are also argued in behalf of defendants where there was no moral distinction between shooting civilians with reliefs and killing them by means of atomic bombs. Thus, the bombings can be viewed as either ethical or unethical due to different perspectives. For American perspective, it was ethically justified while for Japanese, it was