Atomic Bomb Effect on the World

¶ … bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, being one of the events that vastly shocked the world, had several consequences in the immediate history at the moment of the bombing and the after years to the contemporary times. It is widely known that it was the bombing that made Japan to surrender and effectively ending the WWII, which was the intended impact at the moment, but it also had several consequences thereafter.

Nations across the world started scrambling for stronger and more lethal weapons and ammunitions after the Hiroshima bombing. The number of nations owning the weapons of mass destruction has increased over time with the nuclear race being the latest of the cravings of nations. The U.S. indeed still leads in the ownership of the warheads and other legally recognized countries to own warheads being China, UK, France and Russia (Macias, A. (2014). These are fevers from the large scale deaths that were experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki hence each nation with the economic capacity to develop and sustain a nuclear weapon has opted to have one.

The U.S.-Japan relationship also changed significantly after the bombing with the U.S. treating japan and the citizens in a suspicious manner, always thinking that the Japanese were out to revenge and also have the ills of the U.S. exposed. This made the U.S. To have a heavy presence of its intelligence personnel within Japan who were out to have the secrets concealed and any individual who wanted to narrate the happenings of the bombings was quickly silenced and the writers and newspapers that attempted to reveal the real details of the time were effectively censored or denied publication altogether (Shibata, Y., 2012).

The bombings also had long-term consequences on Japan since after the bomb casualties were counted, the surviving population and the generations to be born there after were to suffer long-term illnesses referred to as radiation sickness that had no remedy (U.S. History., 2007). The years that followed also saw generations of deformed children being born in Japan especially in Hiroshima and Nagasaki or by people who lived in those areas and migrated after being contaminated by the radiation of the atomic bomb (Yamazaki, J.N., 2009). Yamazaki further observes that contemporary medical research can conclusively show with evidence that the children of the atomic bomb have significant DNA genetic changes occasioned by the bomb and that the bigger dilemma for them is the possibility of passing down an altered and possibly deformed DNA to the future generations, a fact that cannot be reshaped since there is no way to do human DNA modifications.