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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Assignment

The atomic bomb, throughout its history, has led many debates on its military and social justifications. In this essay, we will focus on all the moral and legal controversies surrounding the decision to use nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. We brought up profound and persistent issues about ethical quality, duty, responsibility, and how to survive such a catastrophe. However, would they say they were disasters? and is the atomic bomb considered today as genocide? The explosion of the atomic bomb over the cities marked the beginning of a new era and marked the risk of a nuclear war with incalculable consequences.

This was the first time in history that the atomic bomb has been used. The United States had asked Japan to surrender in July 1945, but Japan had refused. The threat of the use of the atomic bomb was then established. The nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 were hugely damaging occasions Accoding to ( Lecture note January 6 ) “ all the buildings I could see were on fire, electricity poles were wrapped in flame like so many pieces of kindling. It seemed as if the earth itself emitted fire and smoke, flames that writhed up and erupted from underground. The sky was dark, the ground was scarlet, and in between hung clouds of yellowish smoke. Three kinds of the color black, yellow, and scarlet loomed ominously over the people who ran about like so many ants seeking to escape. It seemed like the end of the world ”. Together, they slaughtered more than 100 000 individuals, demolished urban infrastructures, destroyed landscapes, and damaged populations. Nuclear explosions can cause enormous harm and damage from impact, heat, and radiation, but yet you can keep your family sheltered by recognizing what to do and being prepared in the event that it happens.

We believe that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are unjustified, and our support is not in its favour. An enormous number of innocent lives are lost. These atomic bombs killed hundreds of thousands of lives who had done nothing. They were normal people who worked and children who played. The United States had no doubt, no reason to create such a massacre. To this day, an enormous number of people who have experienced the end of the war are still without their loved ones and still affected by nuclear radiation. They are called the Hibakusha according to ( Lecture notes January 6 ) japanese word for the surviving victims of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagazaki. The word literally translates as “explosion affected people” and is used to refer to people who were exposed to radiation from bombings. The Japanese government has recognized about 650,000 people Hibakusha. The United States wanted a “quick” end, that doesn’t mean they have the right to bomb cities of very high populations to “prove their power”.

However, this bombing might have been necessary to end this long war, because there would have been a chance that the Americans would lose the war. A Japanese invasion was coming, and the resources were getting lower and lower. As we can see, there has been far too much effort on the resources of the country, and it was absolutely useless in terms of the number of lives lost and the reputation and economy of the country.

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