WWII Essay

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Immagine your homeland, your city, suffering from a bomb, vaporizing over 80 thousands people instantly, but not only that, but a second bomb? On August 6, 1945, the US dropped not one, but two bombs on Japan which was unnecessary. First of all , the Japanese did deserved to be taught a lesson, for attacking Pearl Harbor, but killing thousands of innocent lives wasn’t the price to pay. For example, the atomic bomb “Immediately killed 80,000 people. Tens of thousands more died in the following weeks from wounds and radiation poisoning” and also “Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing nearly 40,000 more people.” As you can see these quotes from an article, “Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima”, that these statements or facts are true. On August 6, 1945, when “the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over Japanese city of Hiroshima”, more innocent lives were lost than the Japanese troops. The US had no idea if they were bombing the enemies or civilians, but thus, they took nearly 250 thousand lives and “tens of thousands more died in the f...

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