Essay on Wwii Atomic Bombs

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Wwii Atomic Bombs

WWII Atomic Bombs
When the atomic bomb went off over Hiroshima on Aug. 6th, 1945, 70,000 lives were ended in a flash. To the
American people who were weary from the long and brutal war, such a drastic measure seemed a necessary,
even righteous way to end the madness that was World War II. However, the madness had just begun. That
August morning was the day that heralded the dawn of the nuclear age, and with it came more than just the loss
of lives. According to Archibald MacLeish, a U.S. poet, What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a
scientific breakthrough . . . had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to
death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had
been explicitly defined. The entire globe was now to live with the fear of total annihilation, the fear that drove the
cold war, the fear that has forever changed world politics. The fear is real, more real today than ever, for the
ease at which a nuclear bomb is achieved in this day and age sparks fear in the hearts of most people on this
planet. According to General Douglas MacArthur, We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some
greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The decision to drop the atomic bomb on
Japanese citizens in August, 1945, as a means to bring the long Pacific war to an end was justified-militarily,
politically and morally.
The goal of waging war

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