Nuclear Warfare Causes example essay topic

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 to see any human being in pain. If someone is hurt I must see if they are okay. Hersey constructed Hiroshima to target the values that I uphold. This book showed me how horrifying nuclear warfare is, as well as the pain and suffering behind it and how it effects everyone, not just those who were directly involved.

The recent terrorist attacks and war events have left me mortified, as it shows what destruction humans can cause. Especially the Bali bombings. I travelled to Bali when I was ten years old, obviously I never went to the Sari club, but having a feel of the happy atmosphere in Bali, makes me wonder how so much devastation could happen in this place. Also with so many Australians dying. Life is something that I truly believe in, It is something that I really value, and with so many lives gone in a matter of minutes, leaves me distraught.

Especially when some of them were teenagers, sixteen-year-olds, just like me. That could have happened to me. That is why when I read in Hiroshima: "the sole uninjured doctor on the Red Cross Hospital staff was Mr Sask i". This shows that many have either been injured or even dead and that now because these educated people were dying there was no one to save Japanese citizens: "Of a hundred and fifty doctors in the city, sixty-five were already dead and most of the rest were wounded. Of 1780 nurses 1654 were dead or too badly hurt to work". This leaves me so distraught to think that America could take so many lives away, innocent lives at that.

Normal ordinary people. This has shown me the full extent of a single nuclear bomb, "Little Boy", can cause. What makes me feel even worse, is that compared to the bombs today, Little Boy was nothing, there are bombs that cause even more destruction and more pain. Human life being something that I value so much, I oppose to nuclear warfare because it takes so many innocent lives away. I can not stand to hear about people suffering. Nuclear warfare causes suffering, it takes life away, that is why I oppose it so much.

Like human life, family is another value that I strongly believe in. I am really close to my family and they mean everything to me. I know all to well what it is like to loose someone close, loosing my father at the age of two, I know what it is like loosing a loved one, and having to grow up without him. I can hardly even imagine loosing my whole family, let alone them all being killed on the same action of events. That is why Mrs Nakamura's account of the bombing, has left me breathless.

She has six children and has already lost her husband. Her six children were all that she had. It was obvious that she cared about them: "She did not notice what happened to the man next door; the reflex of a mother set her in motion toward her children". She did not worry about herself; she was just concerned about her children.

I can not help but feel sympathy for Mrs Nakamura, she had already lost her husband because of the war and it would be terrible if she were to loose the rest of her family. Fortunately she did not have to go through the pain again, but she was given a big scare. I feel anger toward the Americans for dropping Little boy, for killing so much innocence. Mrs Nakamura is not the only person in Hiroshima with a family. In Robert Allen's article Dr Hach iya, describes what he saw in the hospital: "there was a dying young mother... with breasts exposed, whose baby lay asleep in the crock of her arm with one nipple held loosely in it's mouth". This sickens me.

Both of these people Mrs Nakamura and the baby, important family members. I can not understand how humans destroy so much; especially how every person killed has family. This reinforces my belief that nuclear warfare is wrong. How it goes against everything I believe in. As well as family and human life, I also value peace. I believe peace is the answer not war.

Nuclear warfare only ends in killing, pain and suffering of innocent people. I think that peace is a much better solution. In Hiroshima, Hersey uses strong vocabulary to put pictures in reader's heads. Creating a sickening feeling in the stomach. This effect works on me. I can not bare the sight of suffering or sound of somebody suffering.

The main effect, a picture that will stay in my head forever, is the events of Hiroshima and how Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto: "He reached down and took a woman by the hands, but her skin slipped off in a huge, glove like pieces. He was also sickened by this that he had to sit down for a moment". This left me disgusted, as I could imagine this happening, and how I relate to Tanimoto, for this too sickened him. I agree with Hersey that nuclear warfare is inhumane. Another point that angers me, is the fact that after this devastation the American government continued making nuclear bombs.

I felt anguished that the destruction of Hiroshima did not stop the Americans. They continued for more pain, and more destruction. This shows that nuclear warfare is not the answer. It does not solve anything. If it does anything it causes more destruction, pain and anger, where there will be a serious consequence. To conclude, nuclear warfare is horrifying and the bombing of Hiroshima is proof of this.

Six peoples life has changed due to 'Little boy', which shows how harsh nuclear warfare is and the impact it has on a society. The stories of Hiroshima, target my values of human life, family and peace. These values have influenced me, by Australian culture and being a typical teenager. Hiroshima helps me to see the events in the world around and how mortifying nuclear bombing is. Due to these reasons, I do not support nuclear warfare and the devastation that it causes.