Was the dropping of the atomuc bombs justified? - source related study

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Siju Rajendran 5/4/2007

WAS THE DROPPING F THE ATOMIC BOMBS JUSTIFIED?

I think that source A does prove that the use of atomic bombs was necessary for America to win the war against the war against Japan.

I assume this because of the manner of Henry Stimson describing how courageous and immense the Japanese army is, ‘The Allies would be faced with the enormous task of destroying a force of five million men and 5000 suicide aircraft, belonging to a race that would fight to the death’.

The way that Henry Stimson describe the Japanese, is that it was impossible for the Americans to defeat the Japanese without the use of a perilous weapon such as the atomic bomb, as if the Americans did not use the atomic bomb, it would be very difficult for the Americans to destroy a 5 million valiant Japanese men who would ‘fight to the death’.

        Source B is published in 1945 by the British. In the cartoon it has information saying ‘Japan was seeking peace before the first atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. According to documents just leaked to the U.S press’ this suggest that the US was very war hungry if they were aware before the bombs were dropped onto Hiroshima that Japan was seeking peace with America. If America wasn’t aware of the fact that Japan was seeking peace before, it make America look very ignorant.  

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In the cartoon, bodies are lying round everywhere, with two characters looking very worried. It says ‘Don’t you see, they had to find out if it worked …’ this implies that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was just testing that if the bomb was a success, and this means that America was extremely careless of the colossal number of lives lost and the homeless.

Source C supports source B very much. As source B confirms that the Americans had to see if the atomic bombs had worked. In source C, it corroborate that the bomb had cost $2000 million just ...

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