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Atomic Bombs

Some deem this drastic event as necessary, some say it was cruel and ruthless, while others have yet to form an opinion between if it was entirely bad or essential. The atomic bomb, known as Little Boy and Fat Boy, left devastation all over Japan's cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when two U.S. planes dropped them from above. The bombs were supposedly intended to end World War II, but yet the morality of the situation is often called into question when seeing the wake of their destruction. With little knowledge on what happened, one can become aware of the various viewpoints and grasp a new understanding of the material.

The annihilation left by the second atomic bomb dropped, Fat Boy, ...

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the Japanese fell short. These include how Japan's factories were producing little, if any, weapons due to the severe lack of oil and other raw materials thus greatly inhibiting progress. Along with this, the residential areas were a quarter of the way destroyed with the transportation system near complete meltdown and the Japanese diet on the verge of sub-starvation. Weeks before the atomic bombs were dropped waves of five-hundred and counting B-29 Bombers raided Japan's skies leaving nothing behind. Fifty-six square miles of the Japanese capital was laid to waste and provided the American Air Force General Curtis LeMay to boast saying that American bombers were "driving the Japanese back to the stone age.

With this being said, an opponent of Weber, Peter D. Zimmerman, who writes frequently on arms control and national security issues. Zimmerman has an entirely different opinion and thoroughly believes the atomic bombs was the key to winning the war as soon as possible without ...

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Added: 12/5/2011 10:57:46 AM
Submitted By: rodriece01
Category: World History
Type: Premium Paper
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