Was Bombing Japan Necessary? Justice or Wrong?

Was Bombing Japan Necessary? Justice or Wrong? Name Course Professor Institution Date Introduction Was Bombing Japan Necessary? Justice or Wrong? The United States found itself in a war that it initially did not want to participate and carried out an attack that goes down in history as one of the most inhumane military action against another nation. The justification behind the United States’ bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki forms a bone of contention between those who support the dropping of the atomic bomb and opponents to the action who deem it an unnecessary move based on the proceedings of the war at the time. The supporting argument for the bombing builds on the premise that the military action brought an end to a war with an unforeseen ending and thus saved more lives than the victims of the attack CITATION Com46 \l 1033 (Compton, 1946). The opposing argument believes that alternative options would have brought an end to the war without carrying out an attack of such extremes CITATION Tay16 \l 1033 (Taylor, 2016). An account of the day’s events in Hiroshima by one of the survivors, Yoshitaka Kawamoto, and an interview of General Paul Tibbets, the pilot who dropped the atomic bomb in Hiroshima provide interesting revelations into the necessity of the bombing. The unspoken benefits brought about by the ending of the War through the bombing justifies the United States military action on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a move that was long overdue and necessary for both countries. The Second World War goes down in the global history as one of the most atrocious events to ever face humanity. The massive loss of lives across Europe in the German-led persecution of the Jews in the famous Holocaust and the catastrophic bombing of the Japanese islands of Hiroshima and Nagasaki make up two of the most heinous events of World War II. In both cases the orchestrators of the deadly attacks on their perceived enemies held strongly to their beliefs and justifications of their actions. The United States, however, sought not to annihilate its enemy but put an end to a war that claimed so many lives already and threatened to continue with its purging intent on humanity to both nations. Yoshitaka Kawamoto recounts the traumatic event of August 6th 1945 in Hiroshima where over 80, 000 people, most of them Japanese civilians, lost their lives in the most painful way that could ever be imagined in human history CITATION Tim85 \l 1033 (Magazine, 1985). The human imagination would, however, be put to test and come up with the deadliest weapon of mass destruction that brought the world to a standstill. According to Kawamoto, the Japanese forces would continue with the fight to the end and would not compromise their honor by surrendering to their American enemies CITATION Tim85 \l 1033 (Magazine, 1985). The military rule and the elite members of the Japanese society never wanted an end to the war as they believed it dishonored their cultural beliefs and way of life. However, some discontent existed amongst some of the leaders and the people themselves as the Japanese military was overly subdued by the frequent bombardment by the United States B-29s. The bombing was a last blow to the Japanese regime, which after the subsequent August 9t...