Introduction
World War II was a time of terror for every nation involved. It introduced new weapons to the battlefield, waged a war on religion, and placed an attack on our own home ground. It was this attack on Pearl Harbor that hit the United States hardest and the nation knew that it was up against the relentless force of Japan. The backlash of revenge was found in the U.S. dropping of the new Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, killing thousands of innocent people both due to the destruction of the bomb itself and because of the toxic radiation left around for decades.
Imagine it. A bomb that no one had ever seen used before plummeting towards your homeland, and then a mushroom cloud high into the sky. The permanent imprint of human shapes on the pavement from the sheer brightness of the bomb flare. Destruction all around, not to mention the unknowable after effects of the toxic radiation that every living citizen of the two Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima had just been exposed to. 67 years later, it is too late to take this action back. It is now your job to research and catalogue this event to determine the morality and necessity of the United States' decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Was it necessary? Was it morally right? Was it worth it?
Imagine it. A bomb that no one had ever seen used before plummeting towards your homeland, and then a mushroom cloud high into the sky. The permanent imprint of human shapes on the pavement from the sheer brightness of the bomb flare. Destruction all around, not to mention the unknowable after effects of the toxic radiation that every living citizen of the two Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima had just been exposed to. 67 years later, it is too late to take this action back. It is now your job to research and catalogue this event to determine the morality and necessity of the United States' decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Was it necessary? Was it morally right? Was it worth it?