The Atomic Bomb was also a war crime because it murdered thousands of innocent civilians. It would have been better for the US to just fight them without the use of this bomb, because Innocent women and children would have most likely been safe. If the US would have just fought them without the bomb, they would have avoided the extensive Cold War that came as a result of them dropping the bomb.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
War Crimes
The Holocausts, around 1933-1945, were one of the biggest war crimes ever committed throughout history. The killing of about 6 million innocent Jews just because of prejudice is not fair at all. The way many of these people died is also a big crime. Burning someone, or starving someone to death is really unethical and torturous. All of this was done to satisfy only one person which is the worst part of this all.
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What about the argument that more people would have died if the United States had used infantry and other military forces to invade Japan. Surely more than 120-150,000 people (rough estimates for # of deaths due to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) would have been killed if we waged all out war against Japan. According to Truman at the time, the US had to drop the bombs in order to deter Japan from attacking the United States any further, after Pearl Harbor. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteOverall I agree that the number of deaths would be higher if we had entered all out war with Japan. This would be true because there would not only be Japanese deaths but now there would also be American deaths. Although there could have been more deaths I still believe that a regular war would have been more fair. Dropping a bomb to end everything is a cowardly, easy way out of a problem.
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