The United States decided to the put an end to the defeated Japanese army once and for all through the use of nuclear weapons. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6-9, 1945 killed and wounded a combined 225,000 Japanese citizens. These two atomic bombs were capable of completely wiping out anything within a 1.6 kilometer radius. Boeing bomber planes dropped these bombs in the center of both of the cities to maximize the damage caused on the cities. This caused for the destruction of government buildings, schools, businesses, as well as the massive loss of innocent civilian lives. As seen in Document C the pilots of the Boeing bomber jets were in awe of the sheer damage of the bombs as they stated “Good God, how could anyone survive that down there?’. As the Japanese surrendered on…show more content… Document E explains how the dropping of the bombs saved the lives of numerous young Americas as it is no longer necessary to storm up Japanese beaches through machine gun fire in a D-Day esk mission. One of the main reasons of the dropping of the atomic bombs was due to the refusal to surrender by Hirohito the Japanese Emperor. As seen in document F the US military attempted to then deteriorate the Japanese economy by setting up naval blockades to isolate Japan, limiting exports and imports as well as smaller bombings, yet the Japanese continued to fight hard as well as sending out numerous kamikaze pilots on suicide missions causing over 41,000 U.S casualties. As seen in document A a kamikaze pilot crashed into numerous American ships claiming the lives of numerous soldiers and the destruction of materials. Without the dropping of the atomic bombing, the number of U.S casualties would have sky rockets as the war would’ve been extended by many more months as the Japanese refused to give in to the
