Descriptive Essay About Hiroshima

When the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima, The Enola Gay (a Boeing bomber) observed the smoke, as it engulfed the city within seconds, consuming Japanese supplies, building, and unfortunately people (Document G). Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr. (the pilot of the Enola Gay) exclaimed that his actions and the actions of the United States at this point in the war “saved more lives than we took” (Document L). Though the consequences were immense, and many lives were lost, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary in securing international peace, and an end to a war between Japan and

Japan was warned of the U.S. decision to attack and was given the opportunity to surrender. Japan remained persistent in their fight against the U.S., and refused to surrender (Harris). On August 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb, ‘Little Boy’, was launched on the Japanese center Hiroshima (“Hiroshima”). Approximately 70,000 to 80,000 individuals in the city were executed by the beginning impact. Various more passed away within the following weeks and years from wounds and radiation exposure.

Was America Justified in dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945? On August 6th, 1945 at 8:16 AM, a great yet horrific event in history occurred. This event is known as the dropping of the atom bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, the event that would begin and end the pain and suffering of millions. The atom bomb was dropped by an American B-29 Superfortress bomber named Enola Gay and the bomb’s code name was “Little Boy”. Three days later, on August 9th, 1945, America dropped another bomb on Nagasaki with the code name “Fat Man”.

Why would killing so many people ever be justified? First off the Japanese were nearly done before the bombing , so the bomb wasn’t necessary. “The JApanese were already defeated and ready to surrender...” (Document 6). This quote shows that the bomb was not necessary and was just the United States showing off a new weapon they had. Also, a lot of people died in both the bombing of NAgasaki and Hiroshima.

At what time did the bombs hit Darwin? On the 19 February 1942, 188 Japanese planes were launched against Darwin. On the 7th of December 1941, followed a flight survey. In the first attack, which began just before ten am, Kate bombers hit shipping, infrastructure, and the town; and Val dive-bombers escorted by zero fighters then attacked shipping in the harbour, and the military and civil aerodromes. The attack ceased after about twenty-five minutes.

At this point in the war America had already suffered losses of more than 418,000 lives, both military and civilian. Thanks to the manhattan project they had a weapon of mass destruction within their grasp, the atomic bomb. It is right to say that the use of the weapon helped to near the end of WWII. Germany was already out of the picture, but Japan held its strength, conquering several hundred islands in the Indian Ocean. In an article

The subsequent scenes have a documentary aspect about the consequences of the atomic bomb to establish a background and feelings He and She cannot easily break away from. The Japanese man is composed, confident, and questioning. He is an architect of a city (Hiroshima) that was razed to the ground. She is sentimental, “defeated” and nice-looking.

On the tragic day of August 6, 1945, US Air Force deployed the first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A few days later, the second atomic bomb devastated the city of Nagasaki. These bombs were thought to end the war between Japan and America before other countries could get involved. To this day, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still a source of pain and shame for those afflicted and for those who survived. In the poem, “Hiroshima Exit” by Canadian Writer Joy Kogawa presents a flash back of these events that occurred during World War II.

He concentrated on maintaining world peace and watched with pleasure the development of his "atoms for peace" program. Eisenhower made his "atoms for peace" speech on December 8, 1953. The speech talked about the nuclear bomb race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States already dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945, ending war between the US and Japan, and also in the after years of World War II the US tested even stronger bombs. In 1949 the Soviet Union achieved its own nuclear capacity, then both nations raced to create a more powerful bomb. The United States did so in 1952 making a very powerful "hydrogen bomb," a fews days after Eisenhower was elected.

The residents of Hiroshima, Japan began their day routinely on August 6, 1945. Some commuted to work or school, some sat down to read a newspaper, and some tended to the needs of their children. At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, all aspects of life as known to the city’s population of two hundred and forty five thousand people were decimated within an instant; it was an instant in which the first atomic bomb was dropped from an American plane, killing nearly one hundred thousand people and injuring another one hundred thousand more. In its original edition, John Hersey’s Hiroshima traces the lives of six survivors, beginning a few minutes prior to the bombing and covering the period directly thereafter. When the bomb detonates, the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a community leader and an American-educated Methodist pastor, throws himself between two large rocks and is hit with debris from a nearby house.