Atomic Bombon Hiroshima

Was the dropping of the atomic bombs justified?

The dropping of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima was justified because the Americans only wanted to try it out because it was new.   But they had contradicted the rules against bombing innocent people. About 90,000 to 166,000 people were killed in Hiroshima. The Americans had denied that radiation sickness existed and they banned journalists from Hiroshima. The bomb was dropped on August 6th 1945; it was dropped 580m above the ground at 8:16 am by the American bomber called the Enola Gay. It was the 1st atomic bomb to be dropped ever. This bomb was originally made to be used on Germany, but when they surrendered only Japan was left to be defeated, they dropped it on Japan so then the world war would be over and less people would die during the period of time. They'd saved more American and Japanese lives by dropping this bomb.

Some of the reasons why the dropping was justified. They would save thousands of American lives a source found on the internet. Harry Truman said 16 hours after the attack in Hiroshima, “The world will know that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military target. We won a race of discovery against the Germans. We have used it in order to sharpen the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan’s power to make war.” If they didn’t try the bomb it would’ve killed millions of American lives by the war. Source 9; from the memoirs of Harry Truman, who became American president in 1945, published in 1958. “All of us realized that the fighting would be fierce and the losses heavy. General Marshall told me it might cost half a million American lives”. They had dropped the bomb to save lives of the Americans and to make the war end quickly and also because the Japanese were running out of resources and they didn’t have a lot of men to fight. Source 14, from an article written by Henry...