The Atomic Bomb

The United State of America was not justified in its decision to use to use an Atomic Bomb on the Japanese Cites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Japan was close to surrendering as long as they can maintain the Emperor. Following these events, Emperor Hirohito intervened and ordered the supreme council for the Direction of the war to accept the terms the Allies has set down in the Potsdam Declaration for ending the war. After several more days of behind the sense negotiations and a failed coup d’état, Emperor Hirohito gave a recorded radio address across the empire on August is. In the radio address called the Jewel voice Broadcast, he announced the surrender of Japan to the Allies.

The Dropping of the atomic Bomb was morally and legally wrong. Moral and legal prohibitions against the use of weapons of mass destruction n war existed before the Second World War because of their indiscriminate and listing impact on soldiers and civilians caught downwind

The decision to use the weapon was racially motivated. All of the America’s enemies were stereotyped and caricatured in home front propaganda but there was a clear difference in nature of that propaganda. Although there were crude references of Germans as “Krauts” and Italians as “Tonies or “spughetts” the vast majority of ridicule was directed at their political leadership. Hitler Nazis and Italy’s Mussolini were routinely caricatured but the Germans and Italian people weren’t. By contrast anti-Japanese racism in American society targeted the Japanese as a race of people and demonstrated a level of hatred comparable with Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda. The Japanese were Universally caricatured as having buck teeth, massive fangs with saliva and monstrous thick glasses through which they leered with squinty eyes. They were further dehumanized as being snakes, cockroaches and rats and their entire culture was mocked including language, customs and religious beliefs.

I think that there was no reason for the decision to use the Atomic Bombs on the Japanese cites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Canadian Connection to the Atomic Bomb 

Most Canadians are unwear of the crucial role Canada played in the development of the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshiam and Nagasaki. From the outset of the Manhattan project, the Canadian government cooperated with the British and American government to ensure that the Allies would develop the nuclear bomb before the Axis power. Some Canadians were unwitting participants in the development of the bomb. Men of the Sahtugotline people a nomadic group of Aboriginal people who lived near Great Bear lake, were hided as transporters for the uranium. Despite warnings from federal government scientist about  the dangers of radioactive substances, the Sagtugotine were allowed to carry tonnes of uranium without being provided with any protective clothing and were not warned about the dangers they faced. The men covered in uranium dust  brought the radioactive material into their tents thereby unknowingly contaminating their families. They hardly had any men live till they were 65 because that all dead of cancer.

Canada had a major role in the actual constructing of the atomic bombs, especially ‘Little Boy’. When scientists were trying to figure out how much uranium was needed in the bomb, Canada made a crucial calculation that ended up being much less than the Americans originally thought. Without this calculation the bomb would not have been made properly. Canada also helped in the making of the first plutonium atomic bomb, Trinity. A Canadian scientist named Louis Slotin, played a major role in assembling the core of Trinity. Not long after Trinity was made, ‘Fat Man’ was also made using almost the exact same design. So essentially, Canada did help in the design of ‘Fat Man’.

Canada also gave the project many resources and space. Most of the uranium used for the project came from Northern Canada, especially from the shores of Great Bear Lake. As well, all uranium refineries in the world were under Nazi control, all accept for one, the Eldorado Refinery in Port Hope, Ontario. This is where all of the uranium used for ‘Little Boy’ went through. Not only did Canada produce the uranium, but they also offered a safe area, far from the battlefields, where scientists could work.

Some Canadian celebrate the county’d role in the atomic bomb as a great technological accomplishment: meany other are ashamed of Canada’s contribution to the development of the weapons of mass destruction.