Bombing Hiroshima Persuasive Essay

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds’?” These were the word that Mr. Robert Oppenheimer used after the Manhattan Project was successful. Mr. Oppenheimer was one the scientist who help create the nuclear bomb that was later, dropped on Hiroshima. The bomb name was “Little Boy” which help end World War II. So, I believe that it was necessary to drop the bomb on Hiroshima because the war was still going strong and Japan wasn’t showing no sign of surrender. The war was costing a lot of American lives, the end was nowhere near, and Japan citizen were loyal to their Emperor and the war. So, I would be explaining why I think bombing Hiroshima with was the right thing to do to end World War II.
The US was entering its third year in the
Just nearly three years into the war America had lost already 400,000 young American soldiers. The US was starting to prepare to invade Japan’s main land. The US started to draft more young Americans. The US estimated it would need at least five-million-man power to invade Japan’s. At that time, Japan population was around seventy-one million citizens and seven million Japanese soldiers. The US already had drafted more than a million soldiers to support the war in Europe and the Pacific. It would probably take about another five years to overtake Japan. American didn’t want to keep on losing more young men to the war. So, the US went into the dilemma of either keep on with the war and lose more human lives to the war or drop the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima with the hopes it would end the war. And finally, they came to a decision on dropping the bomb. They planned at first to drop the bomb on Tokyo Japans capital city and most populated city at that time. The bomb would’ve killed more than a million civilians. So, they decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima which it’s was a smaller city and with a smaller population than