Atomic Bomb Dbq

The Bombs were not as bad as people think it was. President Harry S. Truman had already warned that any attempt to invade japan would cause unusual acts that would bring the war to a brief end. Roughly about 90,000-146,000 people were killed in Hiroshima & 39,000-80,000 in Nagasaki,which most of the death occurred on the very first day of the bombings. The Army Officer made it seem like that was the only choice was the bomb but it really wasn’t.

When President Roosevelt died he left Vice President Truman the enormous dilemma of whether or not to use the atomic bomb in the war against Japan. The scientists informed Truman of the bomb’s devastating force and expressed concerns about the future of such dangerous weapons (Document 2). However, the ends justified the risks because President Truman needed to seize America’s advantage, end the war, and save human lives.

Claire Wyma President Truman was not justified in his decision to use Atomic weapons against Japan because the U.S. now has a threatening appeal, it goes against morals and humanity, and the bomb resulted in a tragic number of casualties. First, President Truman’s use of the Atomic bomb was unjustified because the U.S. now has a threatening appeal to other countries. In Admiral William E. Leahy’s memoirs, “I Was There,” he states, “In being the first to use it [the Atomic bomb], we. . . adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages” (Doc 3). The idea of whether or not the Atomic bomb should be dropped has been debated for years.

Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified under the information they had at the time. When criticizing the actions of the Truman administration one needs to consider the effect of knowledge in hindsight. Truman was working under the knowledge that dropping the nuclear bombs would bring a short and fast victory to the Pacific front of the Second World War. As the war had already ended in Europe by this time, leaders were looking to end the campaign in the Pacific as quickly as possible. From a cost benefit perspective dropping the bombs on Japan meant that very few American lives were lost, and the cost of building the bombs compared to the cost of a minimum six month continuation of fighting.Additionally, there was no testing

In the year 1939, tensions between eastern countries led to the start of the second world war. Eastern countries were beginning to invade one another due to results of the Treaty of Versailles such as poverty and loss of diplomatic power. Japan began growing rapidly and causing many military and diplomatic problems. In 1941, Japan organized an attack on the United States naval base of Pearl Harbor. The US was outraged. Bringing and end to the horrid war was the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. Although some historians argue that the decision made by the United States to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a military measure to force Japan’s surrender and end the war, it was actually a

Another criteria necessary for a country to drop an atomic bomb on the target country is the target country refuses to back down otherwise. During World War II, Japan had no intentions to surrender or make peace with the United States, nor the Allies. The only reason Japan did eventually surrender was due to the atomic bombings. The Allied powers had cryptographers decoding Japanese military messages. After much study, the cryptography team found messages that clearly indicated the Japanese had no intention of surrender.

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)

They were two bombs that were dropped with just one day of one another, which gave Japan no time to think about what is coming at them. It might have been possible that Japan would have surrendered after the first bomb but America gave Japan no time to think about it and dropped the second bomb. If Japan would have given in, then the second bomb would have been complete unnecessary and could have saved way more lives and the consequences would have been less than dropping two bombs. What America should have done was to give Japan a chance to explore its possible options and should have given them the idea of surrender before dropping the second

The United States’ use of the atomic bomb in Japan is still a controversial topic to this day. President Truman had to consider many factors that would influence his ultimate decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There were many justifications as to why the use of the atomic bomb was the best option at the time. One of the main reasons was that dropping the bombs would end the war much quicker and hundreds of thousands of U.S. casualties would be spared. Another thing that Truman considered was Japan’s refusal to surrender.

Atomic bombs can hurt about 100,000 people. They can get burns, radiation sickness, or even die from just one drop of this bomb. America and Japan have fought for four years, and Japan wouldn’t surrender. To make them surrender, America’s scientists created an atomic bomb, and dropped it onto Japan, and they finally surrendered. This nuclear weapon was needed to end war. The bombs did stop war and ended the rivalry between the two countries. Although, the bombs would pass along to other nations, ruin America’s reputation, and it affected a lot of people.

Perhaps the most controversial and heavily scrutinized issue of the twentieth century was President Harry Truman’s decision to unleash atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945. While the sequence of events preceding that fateful summer morning of August 6,1945 are fully understood, the motives behind Truman’s actions are shrouded in controversy. Top military officials publicly denounced the use of such a horrendous weapon, while the obvious advantages to the bomb, traditionalists argue, was a shortened Pacific War. Parallactic views between traditional beliefs and revisionist theories suggest that the issue is still very much unresolved. Why is the issue so hotly debated? Partially because of the overwhelming

The atomic bomb was deemed one of America’s greatest weapons, giving us victory in World War II against the anti-sematic Hitler and his expanding empire and the ruthless Japanese. The Atomic bomb has become a controversial topic in history, debates have arisen on whether or not the dropping of the bomb was necessary in winning the war or strategic weapon in the power struggle between the US and the Soviet Union. By analyzing primary documents and the history leading up to the dropping of the bomb, the use of the bomb was deemed unavoidable. The theory and production of the atomic bomb was developed over time by a number of Jewish scientist, who fled from their home countries to America due to fear of Hitler’s conquering power and his Anti-sematic

While Truman himself stated in an August 1945 radio address and further emphasized in his 1955 memoirs that the atomic bombs were dropped in order to “shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans” (Doc H), historians and government officials are split on the issue of the true motivations behind dropping the a-bombs. However, given his sour relationship with Stalin, it is clear that Truman intended the bomb to be used more than merely as an atomic weapon. When the Truman Administration made the decision to drop the atomic bombs, it was neither completely military or diplomatic. The decision was militaristic in that it tried to end the war with Japan in the most efficient manner possible, and was diplomatic in that it tried to prevent the Soviets from gaining too much

On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan which caused many deaths. Should United States have dropped the Atomic bomb on Japan? According to the following arguments there are many reasons this was a wise choice, a few of them are that the atomic bomb saved American lives, saved Japanese lives, and also it shortened the war between United States and Japanese. The dropping of the atomic bomb took some lives but overall was the best way for the war to come to an end which lead to having peace throughout the countries.

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