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Devastation and terror. Describing the atomic bomb’s after effects does not elicit the use of positive terms. The destruction caused by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was immense, being a true demonstration of the complete power of the atomic bomb’s life taking capabilities. When the United States decided to drop the atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities, they made a decision to put American lives over Japanese. The bombing of Japanese cities was, however extreme and terrible, justified in the course of World War II. The actions made by Japan and its allies had called for an extreme response, and the United States had to reciprocate with one that would effectively end a war with blood spilt in amounts never before seen. …show more content…

They committed atrocities all throughout China and Korea, particularly in the Chinese city of Nanking. Here, they raped, murdered, and tortured their way through the city, where their actions came to be known as the Rape of Nanking. Citizens would be assaulted on the streets without warning, as shown in the attack of a Chinese citizen by a Japanese officer in Document 1. However, the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, made the United States realize the lengths that the Japanese were willing to take to fight the war. Before this, almost all of the war had been on European or Asian soil. Kamikaze pilots, utilizing their planes as missiles to attack ships and bases (Doc #3), took thousands of lives, including their own. This makes the bombing of their cities look less like a mindlessly violent attack, and more like retribution for the terror Japanese soldiers inflicted upon civilian populations in the United States, China, and

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