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Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Justification for Using Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Essay

On August 6, 1945 an American B-29 pigboat named the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This was the primary use of nuclear weapons in the history of human warfare and about the last. Many populate debate whether using nuclear weapons was a righteous choice. I believe it was moral. Though many people died from the bomb, the amount of true(p) that came from dropping it greatly outweighs the bad.A large issue thats brought up somewhat the atomic bombings is the amount of people that were killed because of it. The total killed was 70,000 to 80,000 people initially and virtually 90,000 to 140,000 by the end of 1945. Though this number is catastrophic on its own, its comparatively small comparatively. For example, when added with the number of people killed in the Nagasaki bombing (45,000) it comes to around 125,000 people killed in the first two blasts. Compare this with two firebombing raids over Tokyo, ace raid killed about 125,000 peo ple, the other nearly 100,000. Thats approximately 125,000 killed with the atom bombs and 225,000 killed with normal...

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