Morality And Ethics Behind The Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Research Paper
Samuel Overton
40827123
25 March, 2013
History 111
Dr. Julien Vernet
On August 6th, 1945, the atomic bomb “Fat Man” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Only three days later, a second atomic bomb, “Little Boy”, was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. These two bombs marked the end of World War II and the conflict with Japan, remaining as the only use of nuclear weapons to date. In their destructive path they left up to 210,000 people dead1, and many of those who escaped the initial dangers of flame burns and falling debris eventually succumbed to the lethal effects of radiation sickness. Consequently, the morality and ethics behind the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are …show more content…
The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
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Walker, Samuel J. Prompt & utter destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,
Samuel Overton
40827123
25 March, 2013
History 111
Dr. Julien Vernet
On August 6th, 1945, the atomic bomb “Fat Man” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Only three days later, a second atomic bomb, “Little Boy”, was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. These two bombs marked the end of World War II and the conflict with Japan, remaining as the only use of nuclear weapons to date. In their destructive path they left up to 210,000 people dead1, and many of those who escaped the initial dangers of flame burns and falling debris eventually succumbed to the lethal effects of radiation sickness. Consequently, the morality and ethics behind the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are …show more content…
The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
Donovan, Robert J. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman 1945-1948. Columbia MO: University of Missouri Press, 1996.
Lifton, Robert J, and Greg Mitchell. Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years in Denial. New York, NY: G.P Putnam 's Sons, 1995.
Maddox, Robert J. Weapons for victory: The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later. Columbia MO: University of Missouri Press, 1995.
Miscamble, Wilson D. The most controversial decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Snowman, Daniel. “President Truman’s Decision to Drop the First Atomic Bomb,” Political Studies 14, no. 3 (October 1966): 365. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1966.tb00417.x/abstract;jsessionid=92EC3D3370F3C1DD3EAD32A0B1BB8D8A.d04t04 (accessed January 23, 2013)
Walker, Samuel J. Prompt & utter destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,