Why Should Americans Have Dropped The Atomic Weapons Against Japan?
At 8:15 am on August the 6th 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. In this essay I will be presenting my views on whether the Americans should have used the atomic weapons against Japan. I both agree and disagree that dropping the bomb was the right thing to do. Throughout this essay I will explain why I feel that both points and reason are correct. At the end I will put together and summarise my strongest points.
Let me start with the reasons why they were wrong to drop the bombs, it not only killed thousands of people in 1945 but it continues to affect people 71 years later. Source D states ‘48,000 out of 76,000 buildings were destroyed’. This quote clearly states that more than half of the buildings in the area …show more content…
Source H expresses this point ‘The food situation was gradually getting worse…. The army did not have enough food to eat… tens of millions of people would of died from starvation’ This problem would of already killed millions of people who would of died already from the lack of food without any interventions from America.
Finally, the bomb was a much quicker way of finishing the war as, if it had continued on, hundreds and thousands of people would have died fighting the war. This source is found on a website called history extra.com. By the Americans using this utterly devastating weapon it helped in ending the war. If the war had continued the Japanese also would not have had enough food to provide for the rest of the country leading to more deaths. This final point links to the reason why I feel the atomic bomb should have been …show more content…
Take someone who had family members that had died in the bomb. These people would have different interpretations of the bombing as say the people who had family members killed at pearl harbour. The people who had died in the bombing would think that it was totally unfair for the Americans to drop such a life changing bomb on a city of innocent people. Whereas the people who had their families killed at pearl harbour would agree that the bomb should’ve been dropped as the Japanese decided to attack innocent people at Pearl harbour. They would also feel like the atomic bomb was a way of pay back as well as stopping the war. But on the other hand there could be someone from Britain that would hear about the bombing and feel sorry for the Japanese as many more people were killed and innocently. They may also feel that America deserved the attack as they had cut off the Japanese sources lines. Overall I think that different interpretations of an event would vary on where the person
Let me start with the reasons why they were wrong to drop the bombs, it not only killed thousands of people in 1945 but it continues to affect people 71 years later. Source D states ‘48,000 out of 76,000 buildings were destroyed’. This quote clearly states that more than half of the buildings in the area …show more content…
Source H expresses this point ‘The food situation was gradually getting worse…. The army did not have enough food to eat… tens of millions of people would of died from starvation’ This problem would of already killed millions of people who would of died already from the lack of food without any interventions from America.
Finally, the bomb was a much quicker way of finishing the war as, if it had continued on, hundreds and thousands of people would have died fighting the war. This source is found on a website called history extra.com. By the Americans using this utterly devastating weapon it helped in ending the war. If the war had continued the Japanese also would not have had enough food to provide for the rest of the country leading to more deaths. This final point links to the reason why I feel the atomic bomb should have been …show more content…
Take someone who had family members that had died in the bomb. These people would have different interpretations of the bombing as say the people who had family members killed at pearl harbour. The people who had died in the bombing would think that it was totally unfair for the Americans to drop such a life changing bomb on a city of innocent people. Whereas the people who had their families killed at pearl harbour would agree that the bomb should’ve been dropped as the Japanese decided to attack innocent people at Pearl harbour. They would also feel like the atomic bomb was a way of pay back as well as stopping the war. But on the other hand there could be someone from Britain that would hear about the bombing and feel sorry for the Japanese as many more people were killed and innocently. They may also feel that America deserved the attack as they had cut off the Japanese sources lines. Overall I think that different interpretations of an event would vary on where the person