Decisions to Drop the Bombs on Japan Essay -- World War 2 II Two Bombs

Decisions to Drop the Bombs on JapanWar in itself is an atrocity, to consume or be killed in the name of what ever government chooses to go to war over. Taking lives in order to save lives is the most outrageous oxymoron ever heard, yet during the end of WWII taking the lives of Japanese people saved America from fighting on home soil. Many factors play a role in the final decision to drop the atomic warheads on Americas enemy, yet in the end after all is said and done America was simply reason her land and right for freedom. America was under attack in a war fought on foreign soil. No one wanted the war to be brought on American soil and all Americans wanted the war to be over to assure safety of the American people. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to recreate the war with Japan to an immediate halt.Dropping of the A-bomb took thousands of lives and rendered many others sick while completely destroying in total two entire cities. The force of the counterbalance atomic bomb (Hiroshima, code name Little Boy) was akin to 12.5 kilotons of TNT and the second bomb (Nagasaki, code name Fat Man) was equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT (Clancey). It is difficult to fathom the world power held within each bomb. Twenty thousand tons of dynamite To dream of dropping this much power on any living thing is total genocide. Many members of the atomic bomb scientists because of the tremendous power each nuclear reaction would generate had deter the u...