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Whas It Necessary To Drop Tha A-bomb?

In 1945, August 6th the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on the City of Hiroshima in Japan. A U.S. B-29 bomber dropped the bomb that killed nearly 150,000 people; those who had not been killed wish they were dead as they laid in agony from burns. More than 10 sq km/4 sq mi was obliterated into piles of rubble. Was the U.S. justified in using the atomic bomb against Japan?

An a-bomb creates a huge amount of energy. About half of this energy is used to create a blast wave. The release of huge amounts of energy and power that in a fraction of seconds it makes a blast effect that travels at the rate of about 20.1 km per min., that’s greater than the speed of sound. (The Atomic Bomb (2001). Geo Cities.)

The hypocenter is the greatest amount of pressure-exerted witch is about 35 tonnes per sq. meter and the max air speed was 440 meters per second. As the blast moves away from the center its intensity decreases. As the blast subsided after blowing from the center, a vacuum of air and pressure generated in the center. The reversed winds begin blowing towards the center from outside areas with the intensity of another blast. When the bomb explodes it produces a ball of fire (mushroom cloud), which reache


If the Japanese doves were working to end the war on the condition of withholding of the throne, could the war have ended just as soon and with out deaths? According to long time historian Barton Bernstein “Taken together, some of these alternatives [to dropping the atomic bomb] – promising to retain the Japanese monarchy, awaiting the soviets’ entry and even more conventional bombing very probably could have ended the war before the dreaded invasion [of the Japanese mainland by the allies]. Still, the evidence – to borrow a phrase from F.D.R. – is somewhat iffy, and no one who looks at the intransigence of the Japanese militarists should have full confidence in those other strategies. But we may well regret that these alternatives were not used in an effort to avoid the first a-bomb and certainly the second a-bomb.” (Long D. (2001). Hiroshima was it Necessary? Hiroshima home page.)

Today many people argue weather or not the atomic bomb was completely necessary to drop? Was it necessary to go to such drastic measures? First we must look at what was going on at the time the decision was made. The U.S. had been fighting the massive war since 1941. Moral was not most likely low, and recourses were at the level as moral. All though, each side continued to fight to win the war. The best possible answer was to bring the war to a halting stop, also minimizing U.S. casualties. (Was it Necessary? (2001). 4 essays data section.)

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