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WWII atomic bombings. Butler 1 Nicholas Butler Professor McDonnell English
I 11 May 2005 Decisions to Drop the Bombs on Japan War ...
... This lasted from the end of WWII until the breakup of the Soviet Union in
1991. ... Works Cited Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ...
... Mainly because those who survived the bombings have passed on ... us and we were willing
to use atomic weapons on ... Japan probably now looks back on WWII as a huge ...
... World War II in Asia Commonly held general causes for WWII are the rise ... Atomic bombings
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the ...
... "WWII: What was all the Fighting About?" IEEE Virtual Museum. 2008. ... "The Atomic Bombings
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Total Casualties." atomicarchive.com. 1998. ...
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Butler 1
Nicholas Butler
Professor McDonnell
English I
11 May 2005
Decisions to Drop the Bombs on Japan
War in itself is an atrocity, to kill or be killed in the name of whatever government chooses to go to war over. Taking lives in order to save lives is the most outrageous oxymoron ever heard, yet during the end of WWII taking the lives of Japanese people saved America from fighting on home soil. Many factors play a role in the final decision to drop the atomic warheads on America's enemy, yet in the end after all is said and done America was simply defending her land and right for freedom. America was under attack in a war fought on foreign soil. No one wanted the war to be brought on American soil and all American's wanted the war to be over to assure safety of the American people. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to bring the war with Japan to an immediate halt.
Dropping of the A-bomb took thousands of lives and rendered many others sick while completely destroying in total two entire cities. The force of the first atomic bomb (Hiroshima, code name: "Little Boy") was equivalent to 12.5 kilotons of TNT and the second bomb (Nagasaki, code name "Fat Man") was equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT (Clancey). It is difficult to fathom the power held within each bomb. Twenty thousand tons of dynamite! To dream of dropping this much power on any living thing is total genocide. Many members of the atomic bomb scientists because of the tremendous power each nuclear reaction would generate had discouraged the use of such power. William L. Laurence composes a beautiful picture with words of the cataclysmic energy released from the Nagasaki bomb:
Observers in the tail of our ship saw a giant ball of fire rise as though from the bowels of the earth, belching forth enormous white smoke rings. Next they saw a giant pillar of purple fire, ten thousand feet high, shooting skyward...
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