The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

      This is also another very important post that I have published that I hope a lot of people would read and comment on. I will be blunt: the bombing of Hirsoshima and Nagasaki, Japan were completely unneccesary, immoral, and self-served acts. In this post, I will try to explain why I think this way, and how I hope American People would think.
      Although the bombings were terrible acts, the terrible truths about their use are evident even before the incidents. When America started their bombing raids, they set apart three separate cities all in the same approximate area for the Air Force to avoid bombing in any way. I bet you can guess two of them, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but there was another city that was never bombed called Kokura because of cloud cover preventing it. The government wanted not only to bomb for military strategy's sake, but to do it as an expirament to see how much damage it would cause. They decided to EXPIRAMENT on the Japanese people, because they could make up and excuse to exuse themselves.
       Their excuse turned out convincing. During this time, we had blockaded Japanese seas, cut off supply lines, and had them cornered. The Soviet Union had plans to declare war on Japan (which Japan did not know of until after the bombings). We had given Japan the Postdam Ultimatum, which was a declaration of unconditional surrender. The Japanese government did not like that term, thinking that Americans would destroy their entire system of government and enforce executive democracy on them. In his speeches, prime minister Kataro Suzuki announced that Japan was still making a decision. They knew the outcome of the war, and they knew that they could not take long. I (and many professionals and army personnel) am sure that if we had waited a week for the Soviet Union to declare war, Japan would have surrendered. Our government seized the chance to justify dropping the bombs by purposely misinterpereting his speech into one of contempt.
       They convinced us that Japan would not surrender, and if we attempted a land invasion, we would lose millions of Allied soldiers in the process. They told us that the bombs were life-savers, not life-takers. They even went as far as to compare the worth of a Japanese person to an American person. Of course that is not true, everyone is the same.
        August 6, 1945, a small detachment of bombing B-29s and a camera ship took off from Iwo Jima, heading for the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan. No alarms were raised, because the Japanese supposed that it was an intelligence sweep and nothing more because of the small amount of planes.
        The bomb missed its target, and landed on a hospital not far from the target zone. Then all hell broke loose. 30% of all the residents of the city of 340000-350000 died instantly. They were the lucky ones. The bomb leveled buildings, and burned others, causing the trapped to die.
          The bomb created temperatures of 3900 degrees celcius. Clothes melted and burned the skin. People became deformed. Many tried to jump into the canals to cool of, but died becaus the water was boiling.
           The winds moved at a tousand miles per hour, knocking down buildings just by themselves, and killing more and more people.
           The majority of Hiroshima was civilians. About 40% disliked Japan's war on America. We killed tens of thousands of innocent people in some sort of sick test, a display of power to the world. Inocent people almost half of whom did not even support the war in the first place were murdered in horrific, terrible ways.
           Not only was this replicated in Nagasaki, it was even worse. The bomb was twice as powerful, and it was only due to the lucky placement of hills that prevented twice as much damage and death. It had the same effects, and was just as horrific in many ways.
           President Harry Truman supported the bombings fully, and he may have not have fully known the effects, but he did threaten to destroy the entire Japanese Military with it. If he had done so, how many more thousands of people would have died.
          The most powerful and horrific weapon on earth, maybe in the whole galaxy, and America is the only country to use it. It is our fault the ashes of thousands of innocent people float through the world today, and mingle with the ashes of thousands of burned Jewish peoples. America will never be able to attone for what it has done without first realizing what they have done. We need to be willing to spread the word, and see past the lies of the government. We must atone for the damage our ancestors have wreaked.