Effects Of The Atomic Bomb Dbq Essay

On August 6th, 1945, President Truman addressed the American people, informing them that one of the most influential events in history had occurred, “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima,...That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT...which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare”. By the summer of 1945, millions of soldiers and citizens of the world had died after years of fighting in the Second World War. Although Europe’s involvement in the war had come to an end, the War in the Pacific between the United States and Japan had not found its conclusion. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have come to be among the most debatable events in history. While some argue that because the bombings ended World War II, more lives of both American and Japanese soldiers were saved then there were victims of the bombs; others argue that more measures could have been attempted in order to possibly preventing the need for the bombs. The argument that the dropping of the bombs have prevented possible future wars from occurring has been made. However, the lasting environmental and social effects of the bomb have left
We had killed and wounded a total of 554,000 people instantly, as well as destroying over 2,333,000 homes. (Doc D) The United States has already been destroying Japan with past high explosive and incendiary bombs. We had made it impossible for Japan to carry on a large-scale war and using the atomic bombs just made everything worse. Accordingly, it always appeared to us that, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse. (Doc D) Due to all of the damage we caused in Japan, they didn’t have much left. The Japanese resolve to fight was set back due to their losses at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, their navy no longer being effective, and the air corps