Question

Hiroshima as Victimization Japanese still recall the war experience primarily in terms of their own victimization. For them, World War II calls to mind the deaths of family and acquaintances on distant battlefields, and, more vividly, the prolonged, systematic bombings of their cities. If it is argued that the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima was necessary to shock the Japanese to surrender, how does one justify the hasty bombing of Nagasaki only three days later, before the Japanese had time to investigate Hiroshima and formulate a response

Answer 1

The ethical problem of saving American lifes by destroying Japanese.

Step-by-step explanation:

Historians agree that the main reason of the US to use atomic bombs was the desire to save as much American soldiers as possible. We shouldn´t forget that untll then the Japanese government and its army (not their civil population) showed an iron (samourai) will to fight till the very end.

After the bombing of Hiroshima there was no sign from the Japanese government to surrender. Therefore, the US decided to continue and bomb Nagasaki three days later.

As Eric Hobsbawm pointed out in The Age of Extremes, world war II was the first democratic war in the sence that civilians all over the world became victims on a large scale too.