Evidence

   People who were hired to make the bomb were being forced to make this master in order to end the war in a faster way. It was way too frightening and destructive to even be thrown over to these cities. Conventional bombs would have worked just fine since the destruction of the atomic bomb was way too destructive. The use of traditional would have been able to convince the Japanese government into surrendering. At the same time of the Nagasaki bombing, the Soviet Union declares war on Japan. Japan was already gravely losing the war towards U.S. since they seized every island bordering Japan including its naval bases. Even though the bomb saved millions of lives on the side of the Allies, many were forced to be drafted in the war and had to fight. If the U.S. took the alternative into invading Japan, then they could have gotten rid of the evil Japanese military, which the ones responsible for everything Japan did to the poor other countries of China and the Philippines.


There were those who considered that the atomic bomb should never have been used at all. I cannot associate myself with such ideas… I am surprised that very worthy people—but people who in most cases had no intention of proceeding to the Japanese front themselves—should adopt a position that rather than throw this bomb we should have sacrificed a million American and a quarter of a million British lives…
Winston Churchill, leader of the Opposition, in a speech to the British House of Commons, August 1945^[7]

The bomb also didn't have to be used. We could have invaded Japan's war front and ended the war in about six months. When the bomb was dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we weren't killing the ones responsible for treating the people of China and the Philippines like dirt. It killed innocent people who had nothing to do with the war. The war was also turning to the favor of the Allies and if they were to invade Japan like what they did in Europe, they would of had Great Britain and the Soviet Union on their side. The pressure of having to go against three world powers all at once would have pressured Japan enough to surrender.


When the bomb was dropped, thousands of innocent civilians died instantly and were nothing but piles of charcoal due to the powerful heat waves triggered by the explosion of the bomb. The bomb may have ended the war and saved millions of lives on our front but it took the lives of other people who had nothing to do with the war such as women and children. People who did survive the bombing died much later because as they aged, they started to develop cancer because of the radiation from their burns. Because of the rash decision to drop the bomb, the areas of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had such horrible conditions from the bombing to where it made the areas unsuitable for anyone to live on ever again. To drop such a weapon on a city didn't just blow things up, it had radiation that lingered around the area for many years and if a tiny speck of it got on someone, that person is most likely to develop cancer about 20 years into their lifetime.




"The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children." 


- William Leahy, I Was There, pg. 441.

The dropping of the bombs were also to symbolize what would happen if other countries were to mess with us. What we did to Japan did make us seem like the barbarians of the Dark Ages. We did everything to get what we want even if it meant taking away the lives of innocent women and children. The Japanese were brutal and disgusting people but that's like if we were to call every Japanese person that, including an innocent newborn baby. The ones who treated the people of China and the Philippines like dirt were the Japanese military. Citizens of Japan can't do anything about it since the military at that time took command of the government and killed off anyone who dared to oppose them, which gave the civilians no choice but to go along with it.

"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.
- William Leahy, I Was There, pg. 441.

When the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they only took the lives of innocent women and children who had nothing to do with the war or with what the Japanese military were doing to China and the Philippines. It was also immoral to drop the bombs since it intimidated the Soviet Union because of what our power was capable of and then resulted into the Cold War. The war was already being won in the favor of the Allies and with two to three world powers altogether against one axis power, Japan would have lost for sure, especially with the sea blockade and the conventional bombing we were already using on them. If we were to bomb Japan with these regular bombs, then it would have destroyed cities like the atomic bomb. However, the radiation from the atomic bomb made it too much of a superior weapon, especially for it to be used on innocent people.

“	The atomic bomb was more than a weapon of terrible destruction; it was a psychological weapon.	”
—Former U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, 1947

All of the aftermath of the bomb on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after it has been dropped didn't just everything. It destroyed everything permanently and also killed everyone within the radius of the bomb. Survivors of the bombing weren't survivors for very long either. It only took a single drop of radiation to go on one's skin in order for them to be able to develop cancer within their lifetime because of all the radiation poisoning. This also affected them mentally. It struck fear into the hearts of Japanese civilians and also kept everyone thinking in Japan if they were going to be next. The bomb also punished the wrong people like as if they were blamed for the war in Pacific and the imperialism of Asia. However, this stunned the head officials of Japan and saw how furious the U.S. was to get what they wanted, which was to end the war. The bombing made us seem evil since we didn't who got hurt even if it meant taking the lives out of women and children.