Arguement to Alter World History: The Modern Era to Favor the Atomic Bomb Strike

Was it necessary for Truman to drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan in World War II? On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped by a US aircraft on Hiroshima. This atomic bomb was dropped to force Japan into surrender, this bomb alone destroyed Hiroshima and over 90,000 people were instantly killed in the explosion and an additional 100,000 people perished from burns and radiation sickness. On August 9, 1945 only three days later, the second atomic bomb was dropped over Nagasaki resulting in an additional 80,000 casualties of the Japanese population. The people of Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945 soon after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many people opposed to the use of the atomic bombs because people argued that Truman 's decision to use atomic bombs was a barbaric act of cruelty. People also argued that the US government had other ulterior motives to drop the atomic bomb that were necessary for America 's ideals. Necessary motives like presenting The Soviet Union a strong message for the Soviets to watch their step around America. A conventional way of warfare for Japan 's surrender would have costed many more American lives. Truman and others believed that the atomic bomb was necessary to save American lives but also Japanese lives. These actions from President Truman marked the end of the most destructive war in history. The two sources that will used and evaluated in this paper are is The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb by Dennis D. Wainstock (1996)

The necessity of the atomic bombs have long been debated in America. Although they did contribute to stopping the war, Americans still wonder if murdering Japanese civilians was a necessary means to an end, or if it could have been avoided. Some people believe that the war would have ended without using the bombs. Others believe they were the sole purpose that the war finally ended. Many people were involved with bringing the bombs to fruition, such as the scientists, the government and military leaders, and the very teams that flew them to their targets. Then the President addressed the situation and American citizens spoke their minds. All of these people had their own thoughts on whether the bombs were needed. In this essay, the opinions on the atomic bomb’s necessity will be reviewed by presenting both the pros and cons from a variety of sources.

1. Long after World War II and the use of the atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a great debate remains. It seems that there are two main potential arguments as to why the bombs were detonated and whether or not they were even necessary to begin with. The first theory surrounds the notion of the national security interests of the United States. In this theory essentially, Truman’s actions had been defended and justified as necessary in order to quickly end the war with U.S. causalities kept to a minimum.

The dropping of the atomic bombs was so devastating because no one saw it coming. Although, the bombs shortened the war the lives of thousands were taken including men, women, and innocent children. The United States did send the Japanese a warning stating what they were going to do, but the citizens refused to pay attention to the warnings.When the bombings took place there were a lot of different arguments that will be discussed in this paper. These events took place on August 6, 1945, and August 9, 1945, and about 225,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many individuals have shared their opinions stating why they are for or against the bomb.

The Japanese are a very resilient people. For this reason alone they could have made the War last another year. This is all if the bomb didn’t drop. At the time when the bomb dropped the south of Japan was overrun by U.S.

On August 7, 1945 the headline of the front page of the New York Times read: First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan; Missile is Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT: Truman Warns Foe of a “Rain of Ruin.”1 Now the debate between historians on the question of whether Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb was correct or not had begun.

On August 6th 1945, the United States, led by Harry Truman, decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, forever changing warfare. This paper will be dedicated to why Harry Truman decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan and the effects that this decision had on humanity afterward.

This investigation assesses President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It will determine whether or not his decision was justified. This investigation will scrutinize the reasons that made Harry Truman feel inclined to drop atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Preventing further casualties along with the desire to end the war are two argumentative points that will be analyzed to determine if they were strong enough to justify the dropping

During the time period when Franklin D. Roosevelt was in office, it was during WWII. Japan attacked the U.S. on Dec. 7, 1941 and was known as Pearl Harbor. When that happened, Roosevelt did not hesitate to ask Congress to officially declare war on Japan. During the war, there was a proposal of an atomic bomb landing over Hiroshima and Nagasaki to finalize the war. To this day there is still controversy that if that atomic bomb was actually necessary to end the war, because of the number of innocent casualties suffered from the Japanese. The aim of this investigation is to answer the question: To what extent was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary to end the war with Japan? To answer this question, the

On August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945, the two bombs code named “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” were dropped on the Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then, there has been controversy over whether the bombs should of been dropped. People often question Truman’s decisions- I don’t. A common counter is, so many citizens died. Although that is valid, people of the opposition don’t realize that it is a war, innocent people are bound to be killed. Truman’s actions are completely justifiable and were definitely the right thing to do.

On August 6, 1945, following the attacks on Pearl Harbor the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan purposely in the means to end the war relatively quickly saving countless lives of American citizens. In the Truman Presidency, many began to question if the president made the right call on the use of the atomic bombs. In this case where a plethora of lives were lost in the Pearl Harbor attack America was indeed in need of a solution that would end the war. The decision President Truman made on the atomic bombs was right in the idea that many more lives could have been at risk in later events if the Japanese hadn’t surrendered when they did. In fact, if the Truman Administration would have waited on ta decision to respond

The sources used are a variety of books and academic articles which explain differing reasons on Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb. The sources drawn on also include The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman and his letters to his wife. The publication dates range from 1965 to 2013. As this essay explains alternative factors which influenced Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb, it draws especially on the words of Truman and the words of his Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes. The historian Gar Alperovitz challenges the traditionalist perspective, that the bomb was dropped to end the war without the casualties of a ground invasion, claiming that Truman had political intentions when deciding on using the bomb against Japan. Historians,

Have you ever wondered about the justification of the atomic bomb being used against Japan. This is a grucom topic in the bowels of world war where the US did not want to lose millions of lives in a beach invasion of Japan, so Truman ordered the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. What you do not know is Truman had no choice of the atomic bomb being used, it was FDR’s decision to us the terrible weapon 3 years ago the only power Truman had was to abort the mission. In the end the only regret that Truman was that the bomb could not have been developed earlier to be used against the German’s. What is the justification of using the atomic bomb on Japan was it justified or not? For me it was essential in the ending of a long, terrible war with one swipe.

Many people don’t know the truth about what happened at the time in World War 2 where President Harry Tuman decided to drop the two atomic bombs on Japan. Many people believe that US just wanted to show off their weapons and scare the Soviet Union (Germany) for any future decisions against the United States. Many people think that Japan was just about to surrender and that it was not necessary for the atomic bombs but this is not true in my opinion.

Miles Jr. (1985) was not very bias while writing this article even though he worked with the U.S. government for thirty years. The thesis would most likely be (thesis was not very noticeable within this article) if the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were myths, how many more Americans and British people would have died if the bombs were not dropped. There were questions asked about why the bombing was necessary, what wisdom was there about launching the age of nuclear weapons in this matter, what was the estimates of deaths, and the main question/argument was the moral justification of Truman’s decision. This source was reliable due to the memoirs, letters, books including historical books about the bombing, military documents such as war reports and military archives, and newspaper and magazine articles. President Truman and British minister Winston Churchill’s memoirs were included a good amount of times throughout this article, giving plenty of information. President Truman, the Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and many more people within the U.S. government had quotes throughout this article as