On august 6, 1945 the a-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Japan. The plane that dropped the bomb was the Enola Gay, piloted by colonel Tibbetts. The mission was reported successful by captain William Parson at 9:20 A.M. dropping the bomb was a very controversial topic in the United States. The United Stated had every reason to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. The biggest reason being that the war needed to be ended. Even though the war had been helping our economy it still needed to be stopped because hundreds of lives were being lost every day. On top of that our U.S. soldiers were receiving harsh treatment by the Japanese. Another reason the war needed to be stopped was incase there was another attempt to attack U.S. soil just like what had happened at pearl harbor, which had killed many U.S. citizens. All these reasons perfectly justify our reason for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
World War II was the bloodiest war in history, there is no exact number but it is estimated between 15 and 20 million military soldiers were killed. Of those 20 million people 292,000 were American soldiers and 6,000 were innocent American civilians. It was estimated that if we had not dropped the atomic bomb then close to 1 million soldiers would have been killed.
The way the Japanese fought greatly affected the death count; The Japanese would rather die then surrender. In the battle of Saipen over half the residents walked off a cliff killing themselves because they did not want to surrender so suicide was the only option to them. In many cases a Japanese soldier would rather blow himself up and take a bunch of American soldiers with him than to go on and have a chance at living. Also the kamikaze technique was a very lethal style of fighting that the Japanese used, basically what a kamikaze was, was a person who would crash his plane into U.S. structures. So as you see if this war had continued we would have lost thousands and thousands of American soldiers....