Hiroshima Bombing Persuasive Essay
YEAR 10 HISTORY
THE DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB ON HIROSHIMA
The atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War 2. There can be no doubt of that. While they brought death and destruction on a horrifying scale, they averted even greater loss – American, English and Japanese. In answer to the question ‘was the development of the atomic bomb by the United States necessary?’ I reply unequivocally, ‘Yes!’1
Regardless of General Grove’s speech to the world in 1962 that the use of the world’s most destructive weapon was completely justified, there are still many main factors which were available to the United States and its allies. This marked the birth of the nuclear age which was to last for decades to come. It brought death and destruction …show more content…
It is fair now to say that the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima was inappropriate and that they should have used other alternatives rather than the most horrific. But when the Americans were fighting the Japanese at the time it was their will to finish the war with the least number of casualties from land invasion or even aerial bombardment. The Americans did give the Japanese the chance to surrender by three main people sitting down at a conference in Potsdam Berlin to write and explain why the Japanese should surrender and what would happen to them if they didn’t accept what they wrote. Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill all whom had a main role in their country at the time wrote this declaration in Potsdam on the 26th of July 1945. The Hiroshima bombing was a fair act by the Americans as they had the will to end the war before the Russians came in to try and over power them, but it was what they did straight after the events of the first bomb, which was completely unnecessary. It can be concluded that the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was fair and justifiable act by the Americans to end the war. But dropping the second bomb on Nagasaki just three days after the Hiroshima bomb was dropped was not justified and unfair as it gave the Japanese people no time to react to the first bomb and not time to sign a letter of surrender to the Americans. This is how Private Daniel Yearout, one of the few remaining eyewitnesses some 60 years on, recalls the morning the powers of the atom bomb were first unleashed on the
THE DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB ON HIROSHIMA
The atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War 2. There can be no doubt of that. While they brought death and destruction on a horrifying scale, they averted even greater loss – American, English and Japanese. In answer to the question ‘was the development of the atomic bomb by the United States necessary?’ I reply unequivocally, ‘Yes!’1
Regardless of General Grove’s speech to the world in 1962 that the use of the world’s most destructive weapon was completely justified, there are still many main factors which were available to the United States and its allies. This marked the birth of the nuclear age which was to last for decades to come. It brought death and destruction …show more content…
It is fair now to say that the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima was inappropriate and that they should have used other alternatives rather than the most horrific. But when the Americans were fighting the Japanese at the time it was their will to finish the war with the least number of casualties from land invasion or even aerial bombardment. The Americans did give the Japanese the chance to surrender by three main people sitting down at a conference in Potsdam Berlin to write and explain why the Japanese should surrender and what would happen to them if they didn’t accept what they wrote. Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill all whom had a main role in their country at the time wrote this declaration in Potsdam on the 26th of July 1945. The Hiroshima bombing was a fair act by the Americans as they had the will to end the war before the Russians came in to try and over power them, but it was what they did straight after the events of the first bomb, which was completely unnecessary. It can be concluded that the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was fair and justifiable act by the Americans to end the war. But dropping the second bomb on Nagasaki just three days after the Hiroshima bomb was dropped was not justified and unfair as it gave the Japanese people no time to react to the first bomb and not time to sign a letter of surrender to the Americans. This is how Private Daniel Yearout, one of the few remaining eyewitnesses some 60 years on, recalls the morning the powers of the atom bomb were first unleashed on the