What I have read so far in my book is that after the explosion, three of the main characters got very ill do to radiation sickness. Father Kleinsorge is walking through the city to deposit money in Hiroshima when he suddenly becomes weak and barely makes it back to the mission. Mrs. Nakamura’s hair begins to fall out, and she and her daughter become ill. At the same time, Mr. Tanimoto, weak and feverish, becomes bedridden do to the radiation sickness. So he doctors started to reopen their hospitals and so now the people are starting to get better from getting medical attention. And after the people who got better from the bomb…
I am completely opposed to the bombings on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is…
It destroyed habitats and killed many animals” . The water was contaminated and the air was too the whole place was uninhabitable and that lasted for a long time. Even though the U.S didn't know about that but they still benefitted from it from the secret testing of the Japanese citizens to benefit the U.s and their study of how the hardship of the japanese helps them ( the testing of the effects the radiation had on the japanese citizens). The U.S benefited both because of the surrendering of the japanese and the research that they now had because of the…
Both ‘’Hiroshima’’ and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb’’ were interesting works to read because they discuss two different views upon World War II. However, both works correlate to each other because at the end their message is simple: war inevitably causes death. Upon reading these works, I thought to myself how World War II is taught in the simplest form during history class in middle school. I never had a professor who explicitly went into detail of the horrors of World War II, therefore taking the time out to educate myself in depth was a decision I chose to make on my own. I enjoyed reading both works because they brought insight into the opinions and experiences of others who were directly linked to the atomic bombs.…
I think President Truman’s decision to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was wrong. I understand that many people feel this was the right decision and there was no other way to end war but here are a few reasons why I think the bomb droppings was a mistake. One reason is because the United States didn’t even leave a warning for Japan to get ready or give them a chance to surrender from the world’s harshest war weapon (Primary source packet #2). In another document, Mr. Byrnes’ didn’t agree with the atomic bomb incident because Japan was already defeated and wouldn’t have made it another 6 months (document based questions #2). If the United States would’ve just waited a little longer or use a less harsh method that they knew more about, I bet Japan would’ve gave up and let us win. I also understand the bomb plan was a success in ending the war (Hiroshima: the first city destroyed) but I also know the United States did not predict how badly the effects would be or how destructive the bombs actually were (Primary Source Packet #2). Just because this plot was designed to save American lives and cost (fog of war lesson #5), I think the damages and side effects were much greater than anything that has ever happened in war. In Life: Hiroshima and Nagasaki excerpt, a man spoke about what he saw, “In the following waves [after the initial blast] people’s bodies were terribly squeezed, and then their internal organs ruptured. Then the blast blew the broken bodies at 500 to 1,000 miles per hour through the flaming, rubble-filled air. Practically everybody within a radius of 6,500 feet was killed or seriously injured and all buildings crushed or disemboweled.” This statement made me realize that innocent people died because of Truman’s say and I don’t think this was fair at all. At the least he should’ve warned Japan and the innocent people to get out, surrender, or there will be trouble. Another guy said he could see “miles of crushed,…
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted the atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6, 1945, the United States B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb intended for the purposes of attack. Ironically dubbed as ‘Little Boy’, the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima instantly killing approximately 80,000 people. Three days later, on 9 August, a second bomb, ‘Fat Man’, was descended on Nagasaki killing 40,000 people. Shortly after successfully testing history’s first atomic explosion in New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, the order to drop the atomic bomb on Japan was issued on July 25. The decision to drop these bombs was influenced by the order of US President, at the time, Harry Truman. The two events are the only examples of use of nuclear weapons in war to date and this is because of the horrendous outcome and consequences that were inflicted on Japan, as well as the United States.…
2. The atomic bomb use as a weapon was simply inhumane. Entire families, whole neighborhoods were simply wiped out, people were vaporized, horrifically burned, buried in rubble, speared by flying debris, and saturated with radiation because of the atomic bomb used. Also survivor need to faced radiation sickness, starvation, and crippling mutilations, and psychological damage, even some people suicide because they unable to cope with trauma left untreated. Japanese of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were shunned and ostracized from Japanese society. Radiation continued to haunt the survivors, bringing a lifetime of sickness, not the least of which was an increase in the rates of various cancers. Birth defects for those pregnant at the time jumped significantly, and although the data on birth…
President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the direct cause for the end of World War II in the Pacific. The United States felt it was necessary to drop the atomic bombs on these two cities or it would suffer more casualties. Not only could the lives of many soldiers have been taken, but possibly the lives of many innocent Americans. The United States will always try to avoid the loss of American civilians at all costs, even if that means taking lives of another countries innocent civilians.…
The people who lived suffered permanent radiation illnesses. The radiation illnesses caused future diseases. The United States dropped a nuclear bombs on the…
The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan is significant in many ways as it was a start of a new age of warfare. The dropping started a long journey into accepting that the world was going to advance technology. The dropping of the bomb made countries fear each other but it also stopped world war two.…
On August 6th, 1945 the US dropped a bomb on Hiroshima (nicknamed little boy and weighed nearly 8000lbs. This was the first time man had used a nuclear weapon against his fellow man. It was delivered by a US B29 nicknamed Enola Gay. The bomb contained Uranium 235, and exploded about 580m above the ground. Three days later on August 9th the US dropped a second bigger atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki (nicknamed Fatman). It was delivered by a B29 nicknamed Bockscar. It weighed nearly 9000lbs. The causes for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were: the bombing of Pearl harbor, to prevent Operation Downfall, and to prevent the war from going on any longer.…
Hiroshima is a city located in Japan, an island in Asia off the mainland of China. On December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched an attack on the United States by bombing Pearl Harbor. This attack caused the United States to enter World War II and declare war on Japan and its counterparts Germany and Italy. The war was long and devastating for both sides both Allies and Axis powers. After a long and strained war the Japanese have been pushed back to their homeland. The United States had two options, one invade the island of Japan or use the atomic bomb they were developing. On August 9th, 1945 the United States bombed the Japanese city Hiroshima killing thousand Japanese civilians making them finally surrender the war.…
The three main events that led up to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the bombing of the Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March and the United States successfully testing the world’s first atomic bomb.…
On May 7th Germany had surrendered unconditionally but the war with Japan raged on in the pacific. The Americans were war weary. They had seen the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Kamikaze attacks, and horrible casualties in Okinawa and Iwo Jima. There had been reports on things like the Bataan death march. Newspaper photos had shown American POWs beheaded by Japanese soldiers. Ending the war and preventing further loss of life is all that mattered at this point.…
My topic is the atomic bomb. Two questions I have are one, why did the atomic bomb happen? Two, how did the atomic bomb change the world? The sub-topics introduce the Manhattan project. Japan refused to surrender, why the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?…