In this assignment, I will be discussing the rights and wrongs of the US in the bombing of Hiroshima and come to a conclusion as to whether or not the US can morally defend what they did with the knowledge they had at the time. In 1945, the US of A dropped atomic bombs in Japan, destroying huge parts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. Along with destroyed buildings, thousands of people died from the blast, heat and eventual radiation sickness caused by the radiation emitting from the blast zone and radioactive waste raining from the sky in the form of black “rain drops”.
The astronomical implications of the explosion and the radiation that followed devastated the Japanese, and after another bomb of the same measure, the Japanese were forced to surrender. The two bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man undoubtedly ended the war. Metaphorically, Japan was driving a bus full of American soldiers off a cliff and the US not only pulled the handbrake, but also knocked out the driver, tied their hands and legs together and spanked their bottoms into oblivion. Twice. They saved all of the passengers, but at what cost? All of the soldiers on board knew what was going to happen with an Asian driver. The Japanese bus driver will have to deal with the trauma of being assaulted by an American on steroids for most of the rest of his life, and it leaves you wondering; could the US not have done something different? They could have pulled the wheel or threatened the driver if he did not veer. Two certain things are; what the US did ended the war, and the US could have ended the war by other means and saved countless Japanese’ innocent lives.
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