Greetings friends! Today I will talk about why I believe that bombing Japan was the only option to end the war between these two countries. The war was almost over. Germany and the axis powers had succumbed to defeat by the allies who had taken over. With Europe dealt with, the United states turned its eyes eastward towards another problem that had to be settled. That problem was Japan. Japan had bombed pearl harbor and pretty much just acting like a bunch of jerks. Well, America had been
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Assignment While reading Hiroshima by John Hersey, Chapter Two: The Fire, stood of particular interest to me and later became what I regarded to be the most significant chapter of the entire novel. It vividly encaptures the absolute terror the people of Hiroshima faced in the wake of the explosion. From the viewpoints of six survivors, I was able to imagine just how devastating the force of the atomic bomb could be. The Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, had noticed
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Page 1 of 2 ! ! Nuclear Weapons Debate Part. 1 Sagan / Waltz - The Great Debate Assignment Do you think the international community should strive for ‘nuclear zero’ or not? Both authors have strong arguments, the threat of terrorist using the nuclear weapons on the one hand (Sagan), and than nuclear weapons “have caused sixty-five years of peace” (Waltz). But I think that position of Waltz has more logic behind. Sure, terrorists is a big threat, but they do use a lot of different kinds
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nuclear issues has been tweaked to be released in Japan. In addition, there is a nuke launcher named as Fat Man which mimics the nuclear device that was using by USA to detonate over Nagasaki and Hiroshima in World War Two on 9 August 1945 (Thorsen, 2008). Mentioning about nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, it is a very sensitive issue especially for Japan as the resulting from that incident, Japan has experiencing the detrimental damages and suffer economic loss. After American dropped two
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weapon if it worked. The middle of the bomb was as hot as the sun that it disintegrated people. A mushroom- shaped cloud boiling 60,000ft into the upper atmosphere “(article 1) you can only image the changes and damage it had. A very lively city of Hiroshima is now an atomic desert. You can still go there to this day and find shadows of children playing. Objects turned into charcoal by just the flash of the bomb.earth worms tiles become added colors, extraordinary shapes are found that were once bottles
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Although Western allies eventually decided against the further use of chemical weapons, this disregard for civilian lives would be further demonstrated by both sides throughout the duration of World War II. For example, Hitler utilized the "Blitzkrieg", a German term for lightning war, against Europe in an effort to force their surrender. The idea was to relentlessly bomb a single target until they submitted, a tactic which shortened campaigns and preserved the lives of soldiers, but the collateral
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were killed during that bombing. The United States, instead of bombing a Japanese military base, bombed two Japanese cities that were not controlled by the Japanese military. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two cities that the U.S. dropped the Atomic Bombs on, were completely ruined. Elderly, women, and children were murdered by the bombs. The U.S. also destroyed and burned down Shinto and Buddhist temples, schools, hospitals, living quarters, etc. One day before the bombing of Nagasaki, the Japanese
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It may look totally different has managed to quell human conflict. It may look totally different for the war-mongers but no the common man it gives the same results – death and destruction. The totally of wars since 1945 right from Nagasaki and Hiroshima to iraq and Afganistan continue to grow without respite. The irony of the new millennium is that improvement in technology and scientific advancement have given us more options, leaving us with our major drawback, our primitive human failing – the
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most famous examples of nuclear weapon use were the hydrogen bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. The creation and retention of these weapons was also a main factor in the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union. Many nations believe these weapons increase national security by dissuading other nations from attacking them. Effect: Radiation While the bombing on Japan did cause serious physical damage due to the initial explosion, the health effects
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my this rebuttal is that if the dropping of the atomic bomb was a good or bad thing to do after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. My reasons of making this claim is that a whole lot more people died in the atomic bomb, 2,335 soldiers and staff approximately died in Pearl Harbor which is a lot of lives, even one life could mean a lot, but in Japan the number of deaths of 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000-80,000 in Nagasaki which is nothing compared to Pearl Harbor, this is really a big difference
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