Hiroshima- just or plain murder

Nuclear Warfare and what it means to me


Nuclear warfare is an issue, which is often debated on a world scale. Is it really necessary to use a force so powerful? With events such as Hiroshima bombings in World War 2, and in more recent times September 11 and Bali bombings. I personally think that nuclear warfare is wrong. I can not bear to think of the pain and suffering in which people must face when an event like these occurs. I can barely take the pain of asthma and a cut, let alone facing a bomb. My opinion has furthermore gone against nuclear warfare since reading the book Hiroshima, written by John Hersey. This book is well known and came out one year after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Hiroshima goes through the lives of 6 characters, men and women who were in Hiroshima when little boy was dropped. Due to my values and attitudes I am able to feel a little bit of what these men and women went through. Values that I enforce are human life, family and peace. I can not bear...