The Decision to drop the Atomic Bomb
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb On August 6th 1945, the world changed forever. The United States dropped the first Atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The surviving witness Miyoko Watanabe describes her experience: I came out of the front door...an intense yellow, orange and white light overwhelmed me... the light was thousands of times brighter than a magnesium flash gun...I went inside to hide...There were strange sounds, crashing noises and jolts, and I kept no track of the time...I locked back to see how my mom was. She looked worse then a devilish witch. (47)The heat was intolerable; everywhere Miyoko looked there were wounded and dying people, bleeding from all over their bodies like her mom. Miyoko continues, "Those who fled from one or one and a half kilometer from the hypocenter really did have to step over bodies and shake off hands grasping their legs for help. When someone caught hold of their shoes they just had to leave their precious shoes and flee - otherwise they wouldn't survive"(49). A friend of Miyoko told her that he had to leave his sister to die in the flames to save his life. That day, according to the Japan
On this Island there were 20,000 civilians. The main argument defending the decision to drop the bomb is that it was necessary to end the war. The reader is left with the unshakable conclusion that the use of the bomb was a necessary evil--that the government of Japan was not ready to surrender, and even after the bombing of Hiroshima, the decision was to fight on. Thinking of the bomb in this way many Americans today would never have been alive without the bomb. The Japanese were known by their culture of no surrender; they would rather die than surrender. On the other side, the most important argument is that Japan was on the verge of surrender during August 1945. Estimates vary between 500,000 and one million. At the same time Frank, is convincing in his documentation about the Japanese military's power and their willingness to fight to the end. New York: State University of New York Press, 1993. Would this have been a more humane solution? The casualties would have been an estimated ten times higher if the war had lasted only three months longer, according to Frank's work Downfall.
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