Atomic Bomb In Hiroshima And Nagasaki

The atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are responsible for the deaths of approximately 210,000 people that occurred in a matter of minutes. There is no doubt that its people might still have some kind of grudge towards the American public. War is war regardless of how it is conducted but the use of a weapon that is capable of wiping out an entire population is a little too extreme – especially used on innocent people and especially when its damage is still casually appearing. Japan was already at the edge of surrender when the atomic bombs were used and America was not out of resources if Japan’s resiliency increased by any chance. The use of the atomic bomb was not only immoral but unnecessary, retrospectively Japan did not surrender due to the bomb but other more credible and less violent reasons. …show more content…
The Japanese government was no longer in cohesive agreement to continue the war – half favored surrender contingent upon the emperors position secured, and the other half favored war until better surrender terms were negotiated. Regardless, surrender was already at the forefront of the Japanese government. On the other side of the war, President Truman only searched to end the war as fast as possible. Tactics were already in place to force Japan to surrender such as a naval blockade and conventional bombing. Conventional bombings were destroying cities in Japan, leaving their economy in a fatal