Atomic Bomb Dbq

Was The Atomic Bomb The Best Way To End The War? Was it really necessary for the U.S. to use the atomic bomb against Japan to end the war? What even is a atomic bomb? The atomic bomb is a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heatblast, and radioactivity. The atomic bomb should not have been used to defeat Japan because it immediately killed an estimated 120,000 people, it was racist to only use the atomic bomb against Japan, and the radioactivity caused long term health effects.
The atomic bomb shouldn't have been used to defeat Japan because it immediately killed an estimated 120,000 people. “On August 6, 1945, during World War II, an

“Though exposure to radiation can cause acute, near-immediate effect by killing cells and directly damaging tissue, radiation can also have effects that happen on longer scale, such as cancer, by causing mutations in the DNA of living cells. A cell will either repair the gene, die, or retain the mutation, In order for a mutation to cause cancer, it is believed that a series of mutations must accumulate in given cell and it progney.” Because the bomb gave off a lot of radiation, thousands of people got exposed to it. Many people died over radiation exposure. Since he radiation causes a mess up in your DNA the radiation could pass down o your child nad your child could have radiation in their DNA, even if they were no alive during the time of the explosion. “Among the long-effects suffered by atomic bomb survivors, he most deadly is leukemia. An increase in leukemia appeared about two years after the attacks and peaked around four to six years later. For all other cancers, incidence increase did not appear until around ten years after the attacks. The increase was first noted in 1956 and soon after tumor registries were started in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki t collect data on the excess cancer risk caused by the radiation exposure.” Many kids had radiation in their DNA when they were

However, some people may say that the atomic bomb on Japan saved 500,000 to 1 million lives. “Imagine if Truman had decided to hold back. The war ends, with yet more massive bloodshed, probably at some point in 1946. Truman at some point reveals the existence of the bomb, and the president of the United States explains to thousands of grieving parents and wounded veterans that he did not use i because he thought it was too horrible to drop on the enemy, even after a sneak attack, a global war, hundreds of thousands of Americans killed and wounded in two theaters, and years of ghastly firebombing.” But then let's assume that Truman's estimates were wrong. Truman would have been risking only about 50,000 lives. There is a huge difference between 500,000 - 1 million and 50,000. So, was it really necessary for the U.S. to drop the atomic bomb on Japan to end the