Dropping the Atomic Bomb
On the early morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese without any formal warning attacked Pearl Harbor. It was an American port in the Pacific, which sheltered most of America's pacific naval power. The Japanese had an idea that a war could be won by attacking the enemy before actually declaring war. Many unsuspecting military personnel and their families were killed on that morning. The name Pearl Harbor is a name for "Japanese quilt and shame" ("Hiroshima 1945" 3). To redeem itself on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 AM, America dropped "a bomb called 'Little Boy' weighing more than four metric tons" (Engelhardt 76) on Hiroshima, Japan, causing mass destruction. The names Hiroshima and Nagasaki are names for "American guilt and shame" ("Hiroshima 1945" 3), but for good reasons. The Japanese were being "'repaid many fold'" for attacking "without warning at Pearl Harbor...[for starving]...[beating] and [executing] American prisoner of war" Truman said ("Hiroshima: Harry Truman"). People often look to the "ashes of Hiroshima and Nagaskai" (Engelhardt 75) to find the answer to why the bomb was dropped, but "the real answers lay in thousands of graves from Pearl Harbor to Normandy and back again" (Engelhardt 76). President Truman was
The citizens of Hiroshima were warned to cut down on the loss of civilian life. given no other option but to drop the atomic bomb because funds had to be justified, the Japanese were becoming ruthless, and it ended the war quickly. Throughout World War II, the Japanese forces were highly disciplined, and fought with "fanatical bravery and skill ("Hiroshima" 381). One reason the idea was rejected is there was a possibility that is would turn out to be a "dud and embarrass the United States. Essentially, the people of Japan did not heed President Truman's warnings, which gave him no other choice, but to drop the atomic bomb. Also, half of Hiroshima's population "consisted of military personnel" ("Hiroshima" 383). The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima not only saved countless Japanese and American lives, but it also brought the war to a rapid finish. It took the "construction of a virtual city in an American desert, two billion dollars of government funds, years of intense work by an army of scientists and technicians to create, produce, and deliver" this tremendous explosive device (Engelhardt 76). If the United States did not build the atomic bomb, then the Germans would have beaten them to the punch. The A-bomb was the very latest development in the long history of destructive technology. Not only did the atomic bomb end the war more quickly, bit it also saved countless American and Japanese lives. government held back on a "super weapon that could have saved American lives" ("Hiroshima" 382). Before dropping the bomb, the United States warned the Japanese on July 21, 1945, to "make peace or face total destruction. Furthermore, Truman had regarded the bomb as strictly a "military weapon" (Cranston 11). But years later, in August of 1983, a past president of the Japanese Medical Association said, "the Japanese people were probably spared from the horror of mass starvation because the atomic bomb had quickly ended the war" ("Hiroshima" 383).
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