The Crime Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki - 1543 Words

The Crime of Hiroshima and Nagasaki â€Å"For those who were there and who survived to recall the moment when man first turned on himself the elemental forces of his own universe, the first instant was pure light; blinding intense heat ... if there was a sound no one heard it. The initial flash spawned a succession of calamities. First came the heat. It lasted only an instant, but was so intense that it melted roof tiles, fused the quartz crystals in granite blocks ... and incinerated humans so thoroughly that nothing remained except their shadows, burnt into asphalt pavements ... Bare skin was burned up to two and a half miles away.†(Greenwell) Picturing those scenes is a horrible thing. This is how the survivors of the nuclear bombs dropped†¦show more content†¦The first reason why the dropping of the atomic bomb was unnecessary was that the war was basically over. There were multiple reasons for that. Because of the extensive bombings in Japan most cities and therefore there military bases and machin es were destroyed. (Greenwell) During the Pacific war, especially the invasion of Thailand and the war with China Japan lost most of its machines, which would have made it impossible to defend themselves during an invasion. At the beginning of the war Japan had the probably strongest Navy in the world. It outnumbered any other countries’ naval fleet. During the war, they lost the majority of their ships, their last carriers at the battle of Midway, which was a turning point of the Pacific war, when the United States soundly defeated the Japanese. Japan was also alone, they had no allies left, they were all defeated, so it would’ve made no sense for Japan to continue the war. All the Axis Powers, Germany and Italy, â€Å"surrendered unconditionally on 7 May 1945.†(Greenwell). To continue a war they would have to have other countries to support them and the US generals knew that. It would have been only a matter of time, before they surrendered. The next argument why the atomic bomb should not have been dropped is that it was not effective in terms of making Japan surrender. There were a lot of other different factors that made Japan surrender, but