Hiroshima Research Paper
“A noiseless flash ignites. Blinding every resident in Hiroshima, Japan, seconds later light falls into darkness, forever damaging the city I very much loved. The darkness turns to cold, not because of the weather, because of the emptiness of my body. My family had been lost in the rubble, I was trapped under the bookshelf that collapsed and crushed my bones. I lie motionless waiting for a sound. No sound ever came for me, the cold then came from the loss of blood, it just kept spurting out, until no more was left.” These thoughts may have very much been the thoughts of a victim of HIroshima The dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima, reportedly killed 78,150 people, leaving 13,983 missing, and 37,425 injured (Hersey page 81). This end
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This debt can cause thoughts asking if the war was even worth starting if you end in a loss of billions of dollars. So in the United states alone every war we have been involved in caused us the loss of money and not much of a gain. So what is the point, if a war has started and nations are just looking for a way out, because of the amount of money they lose. As stated by The Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs Costs of War Article “The current wars have been paid for almost entirely by borrowing...Unless the US immediately repays the money borrowed for war, there will also be future interest payments. We estimate that interest payments could total over $7.9 trillion by 2053.” Just imagine if the $7.9 trillion dollars a country spends on war could be used to rebuild an economy instead of tearing down one, that could help change people's lives for the better. Much of wars have gone over budget several millions, even billions of dollars, this is due to the fact that no war is settled overnight, nor very easily. According to The Atomic Bomb Museum the bombs dropped in Japan, Little Boy and Fat Man, were put on a budget of $2 million for research, in the end it exceeded another $1 million dollars making it the largest military budget the US has ever invested in (http://atomic bomb museum.org). This aswell could have been money used to help build a city not wreck
This debt can cause thoughts asking if the war was even worth starting if you end in a loss of billions of dollars. So in the United states alone every war we have been involved in caused us the loss of money and not much of a gain. So what is the point, if a war has started and nations are just looking for a way out, because of the amount of money they lose. As stated by The Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs Costs of War Article “The current wars have been paid for almost entirely by borrowing...Unless the US immediately repays the money borrowed for war, there will also be future interest payments. We estimate that interest payments could total over $7.9 trillion by 2053.” Just imagine if the $7.9 trillion dollars a country spends on war could be used to rebuild an economy instead of tearing down one, that could help change people's lives for the better. Much of wars have gone over budget several millions, even billions of dollars, this is due to the fact that no war is settled overnight, nor very easily. According to The Atomic Bomb Museum the bombs dropped in Japan, Little Boy and Fat Man, were put on a budget of $2 million for research, in the end it exceeded another $1 million dollars making it the largest military budget the US has ever invested in (http://atomic bomb museum.org). This aswell could have been money used to help build a city not wreck