Sasaki's experience in the hospital. Hersey writes:.
"Dr. Sasaki worked without method, taking those who were nearest him first, and he noticed soon that the corridor seemed to be getting more and more crowded. He realized then that casualties were pouring in from outdoors. There were so many that he began to pass up the lightly wounded; he decided that all he could hope to do was to stop people from bleeding to death" (Hersey 25). Again, this grim description supports that the decision to drop the atomic bomb was unethical. How can filling hospitals with wounded, nearly dead, human beings be justified as moral? If the same action had been taken against our country, I'm sure we would deem it as disgustingly unethical, but why should that be any different when something like this occurs on someone else's soil? .
It can be inferred that the decision to drop the atomic bomb was horribly unethical, but it can also be concluded that was illegal according to international law. During the unanimous resolution of the League of Nations Assembly on September 30th, 1938, it was agreed that, "The intentional bombing of civilian populations is illegal, objectives aimed at from the air must be legitimate military objectives and must be identifiable, [and] any attack on legitimate military objectives must be carried out in such a way that civilian populations in the neighborhood are not bombed through negligence" (Protection of Civilian Populations). This decision to make the bombing of international populations illegal was made well before the U.S. made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is also stated in the Charter Of The International Military Tribunal on August 5th, 1945, the day before the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb, that "The following acts, or any of them, are crimes coming within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal for which there shall be individual responsibility" (Nuremberg Principles).
