Atomic Bomb In WWII Ethical Dilemma

The Atomic Bomb in WWII

Unethical Dilemma

Leonardo McCormick

Adventist University of Health Sciences

The Atomic Bomb In WWII Unethical Dilemma

As all aspects of life-threatening situations can become an unethical dilemma which are then discussed. In order to make a statement we must always be mindful to set aside our personal bias when presenting such materials. That is when presenting to a group of people but in this paper I am asked to give my ethical thoughts on the questionable action of the first atomic bombs. The following review is based on the actual historical facts on the atomic bombs that were flown over Japan and dropped during World War II by the names of “Little Boy” and the second bomb was named “Fat Man”. During

Four years later into the war the United States on August 6, 1945 dropped the world’s first arranged atomic bomb over Hiroshima in Japan. The explosion distributed through ninety percent of the city and instantly killed 80,000 people. Thousands of innocent lives would later die from radiation exposure. Without any hesitation three days later, the second bomb was released into Japan this time in Nagasaki, terminating roughly 40,000 people (Staff, History.com, 2015). This being said I would like to start off by saying that I think it is just incredibly terrible how far war can take a nation into the brink of having no other choice but leading into the manslaughter of thousands of people. I understand that war never is a pretty sight to see, it not only brings havoc to a society, culture, economy and so on but it tears families apart. There is nothing positive that comes with war especially when you have almost the entire earth battling amongst each other. That being said I do not believe it is right to decide amongst an oligarchy on whether to set a city, yet alone two cities, on fire and even worse to attempt annihilation of a country

This was not taken into consideration before the action was sought out. The original intentions of the atomic bomb was for self-defense in fear of the Germans that one day they might use these WMD against anyone and that included the United States (Barnes, 2013). The United States could not possibly just stand by and watch the Germans have an atomic bomb and have the possibility of having an upper-hand on the Americans, anything but that. They had some random guy by the name of Albert Einstein help design the atomic bomb with fellow colleague Leo Szilard. This brings questions as to why use a creation for destruction when its original puposes were for defense only and what about the attached law to such weapons? One of the big unethical reasoning behind this disaster was something the United States is all too familiar with and that is this act might have been motivated through racism. I mean the math adds up all of Americas enemies were roughly stereotyped and crudely portraide through insulting propoganda. Also anti-Japanese racism in the American society targeted the Japanese one group of people, and established a hatred comparable with Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda. The Japanese were universally mocked as having enormous buck teeth, massive fangs