Although Japan posed diminutive threat to the American military, the Japanese refusal to relinquish, the immense allied casualties involved in invading Japan and the inefficiency of a military blockade made the bomb an essential last resort. The Japanese defiance to the American pursuit of Okinawa and Iwo Jima and willingness to die in the face of overwhelming odds had been intense. Their refusal to surrender caused the Americans to use excessive force in order to triumph over the Japanese. ... Japanese pilots would fasten themselves into aircrafts filled with explosives and fly them int...

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If the primary key of concern was American causalities, then why was it realistic to drop a bomb that would still strike down Americans? ... " This is what the United States of America planned to do to the Japanese. ... With the help of the two bombs, Japan eventually decided to surrender. Many Americans supported the idea of the atomic bomb. ... Without realization of long term devastation, America did what was right. ...

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The bombing by the Americans, of these Japanese cities, should be considered as a war crime, even greater than any crimes committed by the Japanese in WWII. ... The courts were biased toward the Americans and unfair against the Japanese as the court case was funded and staffed by personal from the Allied. ... The Americans were aware that Japan was on the verge of collapse and they did not care, American air force General Curtis LeMay stated "we're driving them back to the stone age" and his fellow Commanding General Henry. ... Whilst the Japanese had committed crimes of war, wh...

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These bombings halted the planning of Operations Olympic and Coronet, which entailed the full-scale Allied invasion of Japan, and also showed the true power of the American economy and workforce. ... After seizing the southern third of Kyushu, the southernmost island of Japan, the Americans would use this area as a staging ground and airbase for Operation Coronet. ... More than 28 million men and women were organized into the Patriotic Citizens Fighting Corps, which in addition to the 900,000 soldiers remaining in the Imperial Japanese Army, would have fought ferociously to protect their homes...

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These bombings halted the planning of Operations Olympic and Coronet, which entailed the full-scale Allied invasion of Japan, and also showed the true power of the American economy and workforce. ... After seizing the southern third of Kyushu, the southernmost island of Japan, the Americans would use this area as a staging ground and airbase for Operation Coronet. ... " (Frank, 189) This action would have not only cost the lives of millions of American and Japanese soldiers and civilians, but prolonged the war as well. These two options: strategic atomic bombing and the full-scale invas...

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One greatly argued reason that we should not have dropped the bomb is that prior to it's fall, a minimum if six American war leaders were having second thoughts about it's use (3). ... Thirdly, the Chief of Staff to President Truman himself felt that the bomb would be "of no material help", that Japan was "already defeated and ready to surrender" (7). ... In addition, the Secretary to the Japanese War Minister shared in an interview in 1963 that if the Americans had just made a second and possibly third attack on Japan, the small country would quickly run out of food, supplies, and w...

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Hiroshima is a town in Japan. ... What was the problem the Americans were trying to solve? By detonating the atomic bomb over Hiroshima the Americans achieved the following: • Stopping the war, which America declared on Japan, but Japan began. ... I believe that negotiating with Japan would have been useless. ... I believe the best way to deal with situation would have been negotiating with Americans allies to form a plan of attack to restrict Japan from not attacking and minimising deaths. ...

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Navy had already destroyed a majority of Japan's surface ships, and were using systematic attacking systems with B-29 bombers to completely destroy Japanese cities, killing and injuring thousands of innocent civilians. The effects of the War and the attacks on Japan critically made the innocent citizens of Japan suffer. ... Japan refusing to surrender at this time is what caused the United States to use a bomb that would change history forever. On August 6th, a single American plane flew over, and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, destroying nearly 60% of the city. ... There were alr...

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My years of adolescence in school and also the surrounding of the general public has helped me acknowledge the horrific incident that took place in Japan in 1945. ... They did not realize about the damage they had caused to the human race, it destroyed Japan's country and now people still are still born with mutations due to the fact that radiation was released from the bomb. They did not have a real understanding of how our society operated, maybe it was the fear of defeat of their country, America, that caused them to think unclearly and take the wrong actions. ... Our society has evolv...

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Japanese cities and factories were being endlessly bombarded by American bombers. ... Clearly Japan was a defeated nation."1 The decision to use the atomic bomb was validated by the U.S., who said that the force was necessary to end the war, which, in turn, would save lives of both American and Japanese soldiers. ... If the U.S. had have convinced Japan that Russia would use force, the Japanese may have felt that it was necessary to give up, as at the time Russia was the only nation with whom Japan maintained a neutrality contract. ... The best possible atmosphere for the achievement of an int...

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It is hard to say whether or not America was justified in the bombing of Hiroshima. ... Japan was ready to surrender long before the bombing run of Hiroshima. ... On August 9th, Truman delivered a speech to the American people regarding the use of the Atomic bomb. In this speech he informed the American public that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. ... It was far from what Americans would consider a military base. ...

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use of it against the Japanese". ... When he learned that the bombs would be used against Japanese cities, he, as he put it, "opposed it with all [his] power". ... In 1945 after the bombs were dropped and the war was over, the everyday-American was overjoyed. ... This is because Americans in that time period really hated the Japanese, they were not quite sure what an atomic bomb really was and did not know of the harsh radiation after-effects, and because they were glad the war was finally over and no more American lives were spared. ... Also, as a new generation of people was formed, there wa...

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Even though the allies main adversary had surrendered, Japan was not giving up until the bitter end. The United States of America had a tough choice at hand, either fight Japan with its own troop and face tremendous casualties, or drop the first nuclear bomb and bring Japan to a swift surrender. Hiroshima was such a pivotal moment in history because the United States of America did in fact decide to drop the first nuclear bomb upon a defiant Japan, on a City named Hiroshima Even before the war commenced in 1939 American scientists became increasingly concerned with Nazi Germany and their ef...

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On August 5th, 1945 a B-29 bomber nicknamed the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb into the Japanese city Hiroshima without any warning. ... One must consider all the American lives that were saved, by going this route, instead of an American invasion into Japan. Or what about the American public as a whole pushing so hard for unconditional surrender from Japan from the vengeance for the attack on Pearl Harbor. ... Even when observing Truman's racism against the Japanese. ... America is a democracy and democracy is a representation of the people....

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The project was highly classified and kept secret from all Americans except the President and a select few of inner circle scientists working on the bomb led by Robert Oppenheimer. ... However, the Japanese made no reply this attempt. Truman therefore decided to drop a bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. In support of his decision, Truman considered that in the absence of Japan's surrender, a full-scale invasion of the Japanese mainland islands would be necessary. ... However, even after the bombing, the Japanese still did not surrender. ...

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On August 6th, 1945, the United States dropped the first ever atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. ... Then without any response from the Japanese concerning surrender, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb three days later. ... The decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan is still debated today. ... Arguments were made that the dropping of the bombs and the no longer needed invasion of mainland Japan save anywhere form 105,000 to 1 million American men. Others argue that the destruction could have been demonstrated to the Japanese, over a remote island or the ocean. ...

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Others believed that this would be the only way to end the war, that the shedding of American blood was ludicrous when there was a to save it. ... On July, 25 1945, he ordered the military to make final plans on existing Japanese targets. ... That perhaps a warning of the brutality about to be unleashed on the Japanese to their leaders was in order. ... The short term effects on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were nothing compared to the long term effects of radiation poisoning and leukemia that had become the leading killer of Japanese people from those areas, from that time period. Japan was totaled...

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Having not only characterized the apathy of the U.S. bombing fleet towards the city of Hiroshima and its inhabitants but, furthermore, characterizes the effects that this bomb had, not only inside Japan outside Japan as well, leaving a burn on the soul of the American conscience, a reminder to the world of the disastrous effects of this bomb. ...

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To the American people who were weary from the long and brutal war, such a drastic measure seemed necessary, even righteous way to end the madness that was World War II. ... The atomic bomb was considered a "quick" and even economical way to win the war; however, it was a cruel and unusual form of punishment for the Japanese citizens. ... On one hand, it meant a quick end to the war for the United States, and on the other hand, a slow and painful death to many innocent Japanese. ... With the way the United States used the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, one can believe that that theory is tru...

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Nuclear weapons are an explosive device that gains its power from nuclear energy, the splitting and combining of atomic nuclei. 53 years of dejection and sill countries like United States of America, India, Pakistan, France, United Kingdom, China, and North Korea are working to produce weapons of mass destruction. ... Nuclear weapons were bombed during World War II on Japan. Japan witnessed and suffered 53 years from the affect of atomic fusion or better known as nuclear weapon. ...

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