the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was the method to end WWII in the Pacific. Although there is justification‚ the attacks did not definitively end the war. There were many alternative ways of ending the war‚ the best being through negotiation‚ or though a combination of conventional bombing and naval blockade. The US war strategy was cruel and the destruction it caused was even crueller‚ there was also a hidden motive to deter Russia (in order to stop communism). The atomic bombs
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The pacific theater of World War II ended with the United States dropping two atomic bombs on Japan. These bombs killed more than 150‚000 people instantly‚ killing more over time with radiation(CNN). While there were obviously military and economic reasons for using these powerful weapons‚ the use of two shows what the primary reason was. The American Government saw the beginnings of the Cold War and wanted to try and get ahead of the Soviet Union before it even began. The bombs used on Hiroshima
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Ryfle’s article provides evidence contradictory to Sontag’s argument. In Ryfle’s article “Godzilla’s Footprint‚” he talks about the Japanese movie “Godzilla‚” directed by Ishirō Honda. To Honda‚ this movie had a serious meaning because it was about the atomic bombings that demolished Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It was made to make the audience understand what the Japanese people went through at a time when no one knew what type of damage resulted from the bombings. Susan Napier suggests that the ideological
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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
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had detonated the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos‚ New Mexico. The Manhattan project started in 1941 as a race with germany to develop the first atomic bomb. The project cost about 2 billion dollars and 120‚000 people worked on it. Truman did not want to risk the lives of American soldiers if the allies were to invade Japan. Consequently‚ he ordered the use of the atomic bomb. The Manhattan project had long been underway. Julius Robert Oppenheimer aka the “father of the atomic bomb”‚ led a committee
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In August 1945 the world changed. Two American atomic bombs were dropped on Japan with devastating effects. On the 6th of August 1945‚ the Enola Gay‚ a B- 29 Superfortress plane‚ dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima. This single bomb killed 80‚000 people immediately and about 60‚000 more within six months. On August 9‚ a second atomic bomb that ultimately killed about 70‚000 people was dropped on Nagasaki. The dropping of these nuclear bombs is perhaps one of the most debated decisions
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American theoretical physicist and professor for the University of California at Berkeley. During WWII‚ he was appointed as the head of the Los Alamos Laboratory where he played a crucial role in the development of the atomic bomb and gained the nickname "The Father of the Atomic Bomb". After the war‚ he was appointed the chairman of the General Advisory Energy Commission and served as a prominent voice on the use of nuclear weaponry until passed away at age 62‚ due to cancer‚ in 1967. Oppenheimer
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The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the dropping of Little Boy The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises 18 km (11 mi‚ 60‚000 ft) into the air from the hypocenter. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and 9‚ 1945. After six months of intense fire-bombing of 67 other Japanese
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negative effects. The Atomic bomb caused mass destruction‚ and it was a highly risky move to begin with. The Kamikaze raids were destructive‚ but not on the same scale as the as the atomic bomb. We have ended World War 2 ‚ but at what expense? Constantly fearing for the safety of our own country‚ as well as others? If a situation develops in which rival countries have the same means of destruction‚ we are in danger of entire cities being annihilated. The decision to use the atomic bomb was unjustified
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Truman’s Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb HIS/120 Truman’s Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb On August 6‚ 1945 the B-29 Bomber the Enola Gay dropped the first Atomic bomb on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. Three days later the second atom bomb was dropped off the city of Nagasaki causing the conditional surrender of the Japanese. Weighing the Outcomes The Japanese were a very fierce adversary‚ the culture in which the only purpose of Japanese people was to support their Emperor. The ruler of
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