because it destroyed many cities in the process. During this war people started working on ways to kill the enemy faster. They found sufficient ways to drop many bombs on targets‚ But the standard bomb was not good enough for the U.S. The U.S. worked hard and developed the most deadly and destructive weapon ever made. They created a bomb called the atomic bomb. Since the Japanese would not surrender‚ the U.S. decided to try their new invention on Japan. The bombing of the two cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The world changed in 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan‚ many people have debated whether or not this was necessary. The United States atomic bombing of Japan was justified. The Japanese would not have given up if the United States had not dropped the two atomic bombs. The Japanese code to encrypt messages was called the Purple Code‚ by this time in the war the United States had long broken the Purple Code and in their “Secret” messages. They said that they were not going to surrender
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number of casualties for both sides. Due to these factors‚ the U.S. should have dropped the bomb on Japan to save lives on both sides. Some people believe the bombing of Hiroshima was unnecessary. They claim that Japan was on the edge of surrendering‚ therefore the United States had no right to bomb the Japanese. Many feel that the bombing was unjust due to the amount of civilians that were either killed or injured. One year after the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima‚ the death toll stood at 70‚000 from
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Hiroshima: The World ’s Bomb. Oxford: Oxford UP‚ 2008. Print. Selden‚ Kyoko Iriye‚ and Mark Selden. The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Armonk‚ NY: M.E. Sharpe‚ 1989. Print. Nakazawa‚ Keiji‚ and Keiji Nakazawa. I Saw It: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima‚ a Survivor ’s True Story. San Francisco‚ CA: Educomics‚ 1982.
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Were the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary to save allied lives and to end Japan’s threat to world peace? Did the resulting loss of life cost more than a deadly invasion of the Japanese mainland? In August 1945‚ the first dropping of atomic bombs in civilian areas of Japan killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Immediately following those bombings‚ Japan surrendered to the United States. The following essay summarizes the defense of the atomic bomb and its use‚ the arguments
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The USA‚ led by president Harry S. Truman‚ with the Enola Gay‚ dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6ht and 9th of august 945. This was after the attack on pearl habour‚ December 7th 1941. Evidently‚ this has opened many debates arguing whether the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima was justified. Np‚ it was not. The USA responded unnecessarily and brutally. The two atomic bombs caused mass destruction to buildings‚ homes‚ roofs‚ and vast land. Along with
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Atomic Controversy The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ two events that will always lie in infamy‚ because World War II was ended right after those two dates and the bombings introduced nuclear weapons to modern warfare. The bombings killed over two hundred thousand people and destroyed two Japanese cities‚ but in exchange for all that the Japanese were sparred a homeland invasion which could have easily surpassed the death toll that was seen in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As horrendous as
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would also kill more with the radiation that the bomb would disperse. J. R. Oppenheimer said that “the active material of the bomb itself is toxic” therefore the effects of the bomb after would be detrimental to the people and the area surrounding the city. An
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The Causes of Bombing Pearl Harbor On December 7‚ 1941 the United States Pacific Fleet and Pearl Harbor in Hawaii were attacked by Japanese aircraft. There was no warning for the attack‚ and it caused many deaths of U.S citizens. A pivotal event in American History was the bombing of Pearl Harbor which was a cause of the U.S not shipping supplies‚ Japan pursuing a policy which affected the U.S‚ and Japan becoming a threat to the economy of the U.S. The U.S‚ along with Britain and the Netherlands
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On April 15th 2013 the unexpected happened near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) where detonated‚ at the feet of the spectators while they were cheering on the runners‚ in an interval of just seconds and a distance of approximately 200 feet. Three victims were pronounced dead on scene and there were close to three-hundred injured. Luckily the Boston marathon was highly equipped and prepared for the worst and had a lot of first responders and medical
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