Atomic bomb

April 17, 2007 jameerah

One more historical event is the black spot on the world’s history. It is the use of the atomic bomb. On the August 6, and August, 9 the first two atomic bombs were dropped on
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, taking away the lives of one hundred people and injuring a like number of people. In a short period of time both cities were “erased from the map”. The use of the atomic bomb was inhuman. It destroyed everything on its way and turned people into ash, it burned skin, made eye balls fall out, and took away body pieces. The use of the atomic bomb has its impact nowadays too, for it takes from 30 to more than 300 years to destroy some parts of the radiation, as the molecules are very strong. Some stay on the trees, as the trees help produce oxygen, some absorbed into the ground and so any food coming from there would be radiated. Why should children born 50-60 years after the use of the atomic bomb pay for the mistakes of the past?The use of the atomic bomb can be also called racially motivated, not just the way to solve the political situation between
America and
Japan. To compare, during that time period there were anti-Hitler or anti-Nazi images in
America, but none of them were led towards the whole nation, just the leaders. But when it came to
Japan, the huge wave of aggression and anti- sympatic was formed. All anti- Japanese images were based on race, a lot of stereotyping was used and Japanese were even described sometimes as inhuman, even gives supernatural powers like “seeing at night as a cat”, for example. Just absurd. All the horrible effects of the use of the atomic bomb could have been avoided. There were a lot of alternatives, but rushing of the leader of the country to use the atomic bomb definitely didn’t cause to good. They said that president Truman was shocked himself when he saw the pictures showing the effects of the bombing. He words were “I don’t like the killing of all those kids”…But the mistake was already made. The use of the atomic bomb shocked the world and changed it once and forever.  

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• 1. kristinagray  |  April 18, 2007 at 4:59 am

  The same about the radiation tragedy of Chernobyl could be said about Ukraine’s fate. If you look at the newspapers back leading up to WWII you will see that there was MUCH written that was anti-Japanese. Actually in truth, they WERE the aggressors against China and elsewhere. Sometimes with history we only have part of the missing pieces. If the A-bombs had not been used, we would all be speaking Japanese now. Many sides to one problem. Hopefully with your research paper, you will be able to bring out different sides of the gypsies plight.

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