Hi, need to submit a 2250 words essay on the topic Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Terrible Truth behind a Shocking Decision.Download file to see previous pages... In the United States, the dropping of th

Hi, need to submit a 2250 words essay on the topic Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Terrible Truth behind a Shocking Decision.

In the United States, the dropping of the nuclear bombs has long been looked upon as a glorious victory. We are taught that it helped cut the war short, saving hundreds of thousands of American and Japanese lives, and finally ridding the East of the terrors of Japanese imperialism. Although this may well be true, the fact of the matter is that there are several alternative explanations for why the United States was keen to utilize the newly developed and recently tested atomic weapon upon the Empire of Japan. This analysis will seek to integrate with several alternative explanations for why the United States used nuclear force as a means of bringing the Second World War to a conclusion. Ultimately, none of these rationales which will be discussed are quite so noble-minded as the explanation which is been reiterated hundreds and thousands of times within the textbooks of American history. Nonetheless, these alternative explanations should be considered and weighed with respect to what degree they served as an impetus and rationale for the destruction that was affected in Japan to a greater and more widespread scale than had ever before been evidenced on the face of the earth. Ultimately, it is the understanding of this author that the use of atomic weapons upon the Empire of Japan hoped to affect three specific goals. The first of these is with regards to making a statement the rest of the world regards to the power the United States now had.&nbsp.The second is with regards to seeking to dominate the Asian theater....

Eyes were swollen shut and some had eyeballs hanging out of their sockets. They were bleeding, ghostly figures like a slow-motion image from an old silent movie. Many held their hands above the level of their hearts to lessen the throbbing pain of their burns. Strips of skin and flesh hung like ribbons from their bones. Often these ghostly figures would collapse in heaps never to rise again. With a few surviving classmates I joined the procession carefully stepping over the dead and dying” (Thurlow). In a day – a minute, a flash – a whole city full of innocent civilians was incinerated into near oblivion. The preceding quote was but one account of a young girl named Setsuko from the city of Hiroshima who lived through the horror of the bombing that ultimately brought the Empire of Japan to its knees after nearly 45 years of continuous war and conquest. Her beloved city of 360,000 people was reduced to nothing but heaps of burned-down buildings, ashes, charred skeletons and bodies of the dead and dying. Although she survived, many others her age were not so fortunate. That day, around 7,000 to 8,000 high school students of grades 7-8 were mobilized to help clear the city’s fire lanes. These children were all busily working in the city center at the moment the bomb was dropped. In the instant of that million-degree-centigrade explosion, almost all of them were incinerated and vaporized without a trace. Most of the rest of the students died within a few days, leaving Setsuko’s age group almost completely wiped out within the city (Thurlow). In the United States, the dropping of the nuclear bombs has long been looked upon as a glorious victory.