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Amanda Loo Matthew Henigman LDS 102 9 May 2019 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki On August 6, 1945, during World War II, a United States’s atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. 80,000 people were immediately killed and 90% of the population was murdered due to the bomb. Thousands of people died after because they were exposed to high levels of radiation. Three days later an American bomb was dropped on the Japanese city, Nagasaki. Approximately 40,000 people died from the explosion and radiation. Soon after the Japanese surrendered to the United States stating it as “a new and most cruel bomb.” There are many ethical concerns surrounding this event in history. There are many issues that revolve around ethics when discussing the topic of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the perspective of the United States, it was argued that the Japanese have a value in which they must honor their country and keep fighting until they win. Americans said that if they didn’t drop the atomic bomb, Japan would have kept fighting the war leading to thousands more deaths. Americans argued that by dropping the bomb, they would be saving more American lives. This raises ethical concerns because Americans argued they were doing it for the greater good. However, in the perspective of the Japanese, it was seen as a cruel bomb in which thousands of innocent Japanese common folk were executed from the bombs. The bombs caused the explosion of the city and increase in radiation levels. It was seen as unethical for thousands of innocent people to be killed so that the United States would win the

war quickly. Perhaps, a settlement could have solved the dispute, but they chose to kill rather than discuss terms of agreement....