Atomic Bomb In Ww2 Essay

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The use of nuclear weapons against Japan in WWII by the USA was unjustified

In WWII, the nuclear bombing by the USA was an injust crime against Japan. On August the 6th of 1945, the Americans dropped a uranium bomb, ‘Little boy’ on Hiroshima and dropped another bomb on the 9th of August, ‘Fat man’, on Nagasaki. This action was unreasonable as the nuclear bomb was purposely made to end the war sooner so the Japanese could surrender, even though they were bound to anyway. This weapon killed and suffered many innocent civilians that did not participate in and the Americans should have bombed on Japanese factories and bases that would force Japanese to surrender.

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by the Americans in WWII was an unnecessary ‘accomplishment’ since the Japanese were going to surrender anyway. The American Navy surrounded Japan, the Soviet Union had officially entered the war under Stalin’s dictatorship and Japan …show more content…
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted 150,000 deaths that were innocent. These Japanese were either vaporized when the bomb was dropped, suffered radiation, committed suicide to end their trauma misery, various cancers, flown away with the debris during the bombing or were underneath debris. These innocent, homeless civilians suffered losses, burns, radiation, dehydration, cancer, hunger and other severe injuries. The actions the Americans took, led to about 317,000 innocent Japanese deaths who were also women and children, as they did not deserve to suffer and die from the consequences, reflected from the Japanese military actions. The disturbing fact that the US committed was that, they killed their own kind using a bomb, purposely to kill humans of a different race. Atomic bombs in WWII were used against the Japanese by the US, was an unacceptable act that killed innocent Japanese

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