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Type of paper:	Term Paper
Subject area:	Communications and Media
Academic level:	College
Style:	APA
Size:	37.5 kB
Word count:	1111 words/5 pages
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Author:	Elfriede Beasley
Date submitted:	2008-11-21 22:08:31
Rating/Votes count:	5.00 / 6

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The Bombing of Hiroshima
The Hiroshima A-bombing was undertaken by the United States in order to
save lives . As then President Truman himself said , ``We have used [the
atomic bomb] in order to shorten the agony of war , in order to save the
lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans (Long , n .d )
Unfortunately for the Japanese , the 9 ,700 pounds of uranium bomb
instantly killed around 70 ,000 people and more than 100 ,000 more after
five years due to cancer and other after effects . Ironically christened
``Little Boy ' the atomic bomb which had a yield equal to that of
15 ,000 tons of TNT , was meant to secure the unconditional surrender of
Japan , one of the declarations of the Potsdam Conference (U .S .
Department of Energy , n .d )
Some people , however , questioned the U . S . position . According to them ,
if the objective was merely to end the war as early as possible and
prevent further loss of lives , it could have been accomplished more
easily by not demanding an ``unconditional surrender ' John J . McCloy ,
then Assistant Secretary of War , argued that unconditional surrender
would have result to the utter loss of face on the part of the Japanese .
He suggested that dropping the term could have been more acceptable ,
thereby securing their surrender more easily . It was observed then that
the issue of unconditional surrender was the biggest stumbling block to
the Japanese surrender because , according to Joseph Grew , who was the
Acting Secretary of State at the time , the Japanese feared that
unconditional surrender would mean ``the destruction or permanent
removal of the Emperor and the institution of the Throne (Nuclear Age
Peace Foundation , n .d )
On the other hand , there were also those who believed that Japan was
already on the verge of giving up the war even without the atomic bomb .
It was claimed that even before June of 1945 , Japan was already a beaten
country with its Imperial Navy reduced to almost zero and its air force
completely destroyed . This enabled the Allied Forces to bomb Japan at
will against only a nominal opposition . Tokyo , for instance , had been
devastated by U .S . bombing attacks , first on March 9 , when 300 bombers
killed around 100 ,000 people with about 1 ,700 tons of bombs . It was
followed by another bombing raid on May 23 , 1945 , involving 520 B-29
``Superfortress ' bombers which unloaded some ``4 ,500 tons of incendiary
bombs ' followed two days later by a second batch of 502 bombers with
``4 ,000 tons of explosives ' That two-day bombing attack of May , 1945
alone leveled about 56 square miles of Tokyo . This prompted General
Curtis LeMay of the U .S . Air force to boast that the Japanese were being
driven back ``to the stone age ' General Henry H . Arnold , who was
commanding the Army air forces , even declared that ``atomic bomb or no
atomic bomb , the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse ' A
confirmation was provided by Fumimaro Konoye , who was...