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Essay / Drop the Atomic Bomb - 467
Drop the Atomic BombIt is August 6, 1945. The location is Tinian, an island in the South Pacific. At 2:45 a.m., the calm of the evening is abruptly interrupted by the roar of the AB-29 bomber as it hurtles down the runway and disappears into the night. Special Bombing Mission #13 is underway. A single B-29, nicknamed EnolaGay, embarks on a mission that will change the course of history. The EnolaGay will drop the first atomic bomb in history. It was a Monday morning in Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Families were eating breakfast, children were getting ready for school, and work in factories was about to begin. The distant roar of an airplane engine caused little concern in the city. Japanese children had become accustomed to daily flights on meteorological and observation planes. At exactly 8:16 a.m., what had been a peaceful Monday morning suddenly turned into a nightmare of death and destruction. More than 100,000 Japanese died from the atomic bomb. This cold statement of fact has little meaning until expressed in the words of schoolchildren who survived the atomic bomb. Children who may never see their parents or enjoy their childhood because they will spend the next two years in hospitals recovering from third-degree burns and as they grow up, they will finally realize of the harmful effects they suffered from the radiation they contracted. the explosion. Their children may be born with cancer themselves and die before they are mature enough to fully enjoy life, they may never have children of their own, and they may not even fall in love for the first time . As sad as it is, a man is lucky if he even survives the horrific explosion. Most of the innocent civilians were hit by an explosion that melted their skin or even killed them outright. Some jumped into lakes to soothe their burns, not knowing that the water was radioactive and had reached boiling point. Can such a brutal attack be justified and was the atomic bomb the final answer to the problem? These are some of the questions that have not yet been answered and may never be answered. One of the reasons the bomb was unfair and cruel was that Japan was already defeated before the bombing.,