Consequences Of The Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima And Nagasaki

On August 6, 1945, the United States became the first, and only, nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed 80,000 people, and tens of thousands more died of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. An estimated 40,000 people lost their lives there. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan helped mark the end of World War II, many people, including me, argue that it was unjustifiable. Throughout this essay, one will see how dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unjustifiable because there were alternatives, the bombs were illegal, and it was inhumane.
There were many alternatives that the U.S. could have used instead of dropping the bombs. First, the U.S.

Civilian populations were not allowed to be bombed, even if there was military motive behind it. However, some argue that since the U.S. was not a member of the League of Nations, its laws did not apply. Additionally, there were arguments brought up about the fact that the League of Nations had been disbanded in 1939, before the atomic bombs were created, however that is irrelevant. Even more so, the League did not outlaw nuclear weapons. (Barnes, 2013) To that, one could argue that because America likes to be the example of how to run a country for everyone else in the world, one would think that the U.S. would see the atomic bombs as horrific. One would also think that because America would never want any other country to drop atomic bombs, that they would not do it themselves. Also, if nuclear weapons had existed, they would have been outlawed because of how much destruction they