The Importance Of Humanity During World War II

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Nuclear disasters have marred the very existence of human race since time immemorial. Humanity rests in the cradle of an individual’s sense of judgment and in the days of now, humanity’s judgment is clouded. Clouded by violence, a human’s sense of superiority and a human’s fight for survival, somewhere deep down morality, with all its ambiguity, dies a martyr’s death. 1945: The year, the entirety of the world stood still as the flames of human trepidation engulfed the human sense of innocence and morality. Mortality ceased to be a stranger as death came quicker than age did. Corpses of men, women and children lined the streets of European cities as if death had had its last laugh on mankind. The last year of the Second World War was the very …show more content…

The battle of racial survival had ended and humanity had emerged as winners. Men and women celebrated as fireworks lit up the night sky of every other city and town in Europe. Children celebrated with poised stances and patriotic marches as their naïve little selves understood that humanity had emerged as the winner, the real victors in the name of the Allied Powers. Although, the war in Europe was won, the war in Asia was yet to be won. The Second World War had not ended yet. The American President, Theodore Roosevelt, demanded for the surrender of the Japanese from the war but as the Japanese code of honour governs the very life of the Japanese, surrendering was never an option. Thus, Japan’s reluctance to surrender and the determination of the USA to win the war, the most drastic of actions was taken in the form of the development of the atom …show more content…

Human being’s faith in each other was rattled as the entirety of global polity succumbed to a state of paranoia and all the mirth and frolic of the war ending was lost in the cries of the Japanese children. The streets of Hiroshima had suffered the brunt of human despondency as crumbled blocks and shards littered them and human beings were reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye. All this under the shelter of the mushroom cloud of the heralds of destruction. Present Day, 2018: “The nuclear button is on my desk at all times.” “Will someone from his (Kim Jong-un’s) depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a nuclear button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful button than his and it works.” Thus, began another exchange of words between the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, and the dictator of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim

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