Team WorldWonderings :- Hello, friends 6th August 1945, summer was in full force in Japan’s Hiroshima city. It was a pleasant day, the sky was blue and the sun was shining. A typical Monday morning. At 8 AM, people were arriving at their offices, children were at school, in their first period of the day. Meanwhile, some people spotted an American Boeing B-29 aircraft in the sky.
At 8:15 AM, something fell out of the aircraft. From a distance, people couldn’t figure out what it was. The thing falling out of the aircraft. Not even in their dreams could they have imagined that it was an atomic bomb. 43 Seconds. It was in freefall for exactly 43 seconds. After that, in the blink of an eye, it was all over.
The story behind the atomic bombings that ended World War
Thousands of people in the city saw a blinding light in the last seconds of their life. The bomb blast created an instant fireball. As if the sun descended on Earth. The temperatures reached 4,000°C. In the blink of an eye, 80,000 people were killed. This will lead you to the impertinent question Why was the bomb dropped? Come, in today’s video let us understand the story of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”In this instant, Robert Oppenheimer, recalls a passage from the sacred book of the Hindus.” “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
” Our story began during the second world war. This war broke out in 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland. One by one, other countries were roped into this war. WWII was being fought between two major alliances. After the devastating results of WWI, America had decided that it wouldn’t interfere in conflicts in Europe and Asia. \”It seems the unprovoked attack by Japan on Sunday, is a State of War. It has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.” It is important to understand things from Japan’s context. Whenever World War II is discussed, we focus mostly on Germany and Hitler.
President Truman’s authorization to use the atomic bomb
America and the allies knew that they would have to use some other way to force Japan to surrender. 12th April 1945, the then US President Franklin D Roosevelt, he was the POTUS all through WWII, he passed away. Vice President Harry Truman became the new POTUS. The responsibility to find a solution to the Japanese wars fell on him. He had made it clear much before. Around this time, he came to know about a top-secret US Military Project. The Manhattan Project. Several scientists were secretly developing the first atom bomb in the world.
On 16th July 1945, the atom bomb was tested, at a bombing range in New Mexico. This test was successful. Truman believed that he had found a solution.They decided to give the last warning to Japan before the atomic bomb was deployed.26th July 1945, Potsdam Declaration. The Presidents of the US and China, and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, came together to demand Japan’s unconditional surrender. They warn that in case Japan doesn’t surrender, It would result in prompt and utter destruction. Without specifying what they meant by ‘destruction’.
The lasting impact of the atomic bombings
merica estimated that it would take at least 10 years and the lives of 1 million soldiers, if they continued trying to fight the Japanese Army on the ground. Their perspective was that 200,000 people were killed by the atom bomb, though is it not an insignificant number, 200,000 people are much less than 1 million US soldiers. As far as radiation was concerned, they claim that they weren’t aware of any long-lasting effects of the nuclear bombs. That people would contract diseases due to it later. That people would suffer radiation sickness later. The scientists of the Manhattan Project knew about the amount of radiation released.
So if the US President thinks that it is eeded to deploy nuclear weapons to save people he would have to pick up the knife and kill the volunteer. Because the sacrifice of one person would be justified to save thousands. You should think about these. This is beautifully depicted in a film, Eye in the Sky (2015) it beautifully depicts this moral dilemma.