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Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises into the air from the hypocenter. Substantial debate exists over the ethical, legal, and military aspects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 at the close of ...
- “No. It Was Immoral, and Unnecessary” – Richard Overy
- “Yes. It Was The Least Bad Option” – Robert James Maddox
- “No. Japan Would Have Surrendered Anyway” – Martin J Sherwin
- “Yes. It Saved Millions of Lives in Japan and Asia” – Richard Frank
- “No. Better Options Were Discarded For Political Reasons” – Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
- “Yes. The Moral Failing Was Japan’S” – Michael Kort
The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was justified at the time as being moral – in order to bring about a more rapid victory and prevent the deaths of more Americans. However, it was clearly not moral to use this weapon knowing that it would kill civilians and destroy the urban milieu. And it wasn’t necessary either. Militarily Japan was fi...
The atomic bombs were horrible, but I agree with US secretary of war Henry L Stimson that using them was the “least abhorrent choice”. A bloody invasion and round-the-clock conventional bombing would have led to a far higher death toll and so the atomic weapons actually saved thousands of American and millions of Japanese lives. The bombs were the ...
I believe that it was a mistake and a tragedy that the atomic bombs were used. Those bombings had little to do with the Japanese decision to surrender. The evidence has become overwhelming that it was the entry of the Soviet Union on 8 August into the war against Japan that forced surrender but, understandably, this view is very difficult for Ameri...
Dropping the bombs was morally preferable to any other choices available. One of the biggest problems we have is that we can talk about Dresden and the bombing of Hamburg and we all know what the context is: Nazi Germany and what Nazi Germany did. There’s been a great amnesia in the west with respect to what sort of war Japan conducted across Asia-...
Once sympathetic to the argument that the atomic bomb was necessary, the more research I do, the more I am convinced it was one of the gravest war crimes the US has ever committed. I’ve been to Japan and discovered what happened on the ground in 1945 and it was really horrifying. The radiationhas affected people who survived the blast for many year...
Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb was the best choice available under the circumstances and was therefore morally justifiable. It was clear Japan was unwilling to surrender on terms even remotely acceptable to the US and its allies, and the country was preparing a defence far more formidable than the US had anticipated. The choice was not, a...
In the initial days following the Japanese surrender, the United States public overwhelmingly supported the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A Gallup poll taken in August 1945 found that 85 percent of Americans supported the bombings, 10 percent were opposed to them, and 5 percent had no opinion.
Aug 4, 2015 · In the years since WWII, two issues have fueled a debate over America’s use of nuclear weapons against Japan: Did Washington have an alternative to the course it pursued – the bombing of Hiroshima followed by dropping a second atomic weapon on Nagasaki on Aug. 9 – and should the U.S. now apologize for these actions?
May 17, 2016 · Gordin argues that Hiroshima and Nagasaki stemmed from American decisionmakers’ belief that the bombs were merely an especially powerful conventional weapon. He claims U.S. leaders did not “clearly understand the atomic bomb’s revolutionary strategic potential.”
Aug 9, 2021 · Published Aug 09, 2021 at 5:00 PM EDT. By Carlin Becker, Zenger News. Seventy-six years after the United States dropped nuclear weapons on two Japanese cities, World War II historians still hotly...
Aug 11, 2015 · A Debate Over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 70 Years Later. Aug. 11, 2015. Share full article. The atomic bomb, codenamed "Fat Man," that was eventually dropped on Nagasaki, Japan....
