Use Of The Atomic Bomb As A Military Weapon

One of the most controversial and heavily scrutinized issue of the twentieth century was President Harry S. Truman’s decision to unleash atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The motives behind Truman’s actions are shrouded in controversy as top military officials publicly denounced the use of such a disastrous weapon. There is overwhelming evidence supporting both sides of the decision, as historians are split in opinion. The United States had been using conventional bombing to try to push Japan over the edge to surrender, but with countless Japanese civilians loyal to their country, invading Japan proved to be more problematic than first thought. Harry S. Truman made the ultimate decision of dropping the atomic bomb in hopes that it would end the war, but the amount of casualties caused by it has historians questioning if it was morally right, “The bomb was unfortunate, but it was the only means to bring Japan to a surrender,” historian Sadao Asada states (Bomb 9). Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justifiable because they would ultimately lead to the end of the war and would demonstrate U.S. supremacy.

With the start of World War II the race for the first atomic bomb started. With Germany under Hitler’s reign, the Nazis began separating uranium to form the first atomic bomb to control the world. The push for the United States build the first atomic bomb began with this knowledge. With the help of several scientists the United States succeeded in building the atomic bomb first. Two atomic bombs were used; a uranium bomb on Hiroshima and a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki. Along with the many deaths were six stages of A-bomb illness which includes acute stages, atomic bomb trauma, A-bomb radiation illness, radiation blood injury at lethal dosage, blood injuries, and secondary radiation illness. Seven unhealed scars were also an effect of the atomic bombs that includes keloids, A-bomb cataracts, leukemia, cancers, chromosome changes, exposure in utero and microcephaly, and genetic surveys. Regulations and guidance were set in place soon after the bombings to protect the people of the world based on the information that was gathered and it has changed over the years based on the new information that was learned. With the use of the atomic bombs in World War II, a lot of pain and suffering was caused, but a great deal of information was learned to help protect future generations from radiation.

“ The atom bomb was no ‘great decision.’ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.” This quote was said by Harry S. Truman the first President who used an atomic bomb. The program that was able to create this monstrous power was known as the Manhattan Project. Creating this weapon was their main priority. The United States was in the midst of World War 2. The atomic bomb is considered to be the main factor that ended that war. It was a race against the multiple enemies of the United States, to be the first to acquire this power and use it when necessary. The Manhattan Project was kept strictly confidential and, created the foundation of the future and more powerful nuclear weapons to come.

Few inventions have shaped war as much as the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb enabled massive indiscriminate destruction on a scale the world had never seen. The offensive capabilities of the atomic bomb were terrifying and many believed a nuclear war could destroy the world. Bernard Brodie, Albert Wohlstetter, Thomas Schelling, and André Beaufre describe the state of war the atomic bomb introduced in the Nuclear Age. Their writings show that atomic bombs changed warfare by changing the focus of arms development to avoid conflict and threats against civilians were now used to force surrender.

Mr. President, upon your request, I have analyzed and researched the war effort against Japan and I have come up with what I believe to be the best possible recommendation. As you well know, your predecessor President Roosevelt initiated the Manhattan Project in 1943, the year after our scientists were about to successfully about produce a self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction. Since then the atomic bomb has been successfully be tested in Trinity and, if used in the war, is expected to create 250,000 casualties. Naturally, a weapon with this kind of potential would create significant debate in Congress. Currently the Secretary of State urges us to deploy the atomic bomb in order to reduce long-term casualties. On the other spectrum, the Under-Secretary of State, an expert on Japanese diplomacy, is a strong voice against the use of the bomb. As the debate continues, we continue to experience three threats: potential soviet expansion, a nuclear arms race, and our alarming high casualty rate.

This investigation focuses on the use and necessity of the atomic bomb in World War II. To what extent did the atomic bomb dropped by the United States during World War II save lives? This will be investigated using websites, books, military accounts, and newspaper articles. Military calculations of what potentially could have happened had the United States invaded Japan instead of dropping the bomb will be researched. Also, information from the Manhattan Project, reinterpretations of the event, and military strategies of several countries will be used. The physical effects of the bomb on the victims will also be considered. Alternate opinions of why the bomb was dropped will be discussed.

When the Eleventh Doctor, protector of aliens and humans, first landed his Tardis on the Starship UK he never imagined that he would be faced with the seemingly impossible decision of choosing between saving the lives of an alien or human. The government had enslaved and tortured an alien to use as the engine for their ship. The Doctor could not allow the cruel treatment to continue, so he had to determine who would die for the sake of saving others. Making a choice between the lives of two parties is a judgment call that makes a good story plot, but also one that the United States government was not exempt from. The United States government was presented with the decision to compare the value of the lives of others when the choice came to use the atomic bombs as a weapon during World War II. The atomic bomb was used in order to shorten the war and save thousands of lives. However, in reality the bombs killed thousands of innocent Japanese civilians and had unfathomable repercussions for generations to come. When the value of lives is called into question, people can be swayed by the forces of loss aversion and diagnosis bias to justify their decision.

Nuclear research all started when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the United States entered into World War II. When the United States realized that Germany attempted to build an atomic bomb, Americans began to concentrate on their research about creating an atomic bomb more heavily. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Manhattan Project, which included a group of top scientists, under General Leslie R. Groves, who worked around the clock to try to develop an atomic bomb within three years (Beyer, Page 15). The Americans and the British combined their efforts to research the development of the bomb and created plants and factories to work in the atomic bomb. They created plants for three separate processes: electromagnetic, gaseous diffusion, and thermal diffusion. These plants helped create the plutonium and uranium 235 needed to manufacture the atomic bomb ("Key Issues: Nuclear Weapons: History: Pre Cold War: Manhattan Project.", Web). The secrecy of the Manhattan Project was essential in order to develop the atomic bombs to end World War II.

The U.S believed that dropping the atomic bomb would end the useless war that was going on. In “Truman’s 1945 Memoir”, Truman decided that using the bomb was the right choice to end the war. Truman also said that dropping “the bomb

The creation of the atomic bomb came about after Albert Einstein warned President Franklin Roosevelt about the Germans experimenting with nuclear technology and recommended its military potential for the US. The Manhattan project was then commission to research and build atomic weapons. After the surrender of Germany and Italy as well as the death of President Roosevelt, Harry Truman was thrown into the driver’s seat and had to deal with last fighting Axis Power, Japan. Truman assembled multiple committees of high ranking military officials in order to decide whether to use the atomic bomb to force Japan’s surrender. The committee members came to a unanimous decision that the atomic

Personally, I think that it was a bad idea to introduce the world to a weapon the can possibly wipe out the entire human race. United States shouldn’t have used the atomic bomb on Japan. See the results of the bombing on Japan, I don’t think that any country should have to face that type of bombing. Well, the Ultimate weapon is already introduced so how do we prevent countries from using it? I believe that if a country uses an Atomic Bomb/ Nuclear Bomb on another country, the country using the bomb should be banned from everything like trade, selling items to other countries and etc. That way the world can be a safe place and no one should have to worry about their offspring facing the deadly

The dropping of the Atom Bomb is one of many historical events of the World War II. The Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two Japanese cities. The two nuclear bombs were dropped by the Americans at the end of the war, more specifically on August 6th and August 9th in 1945. The reason for these events is to this day, not clearly understood by many, but for the Americans it was believed to be the best way to end the war. The attack being so controversial, in this paper, I will give my view on this harmful event and I will attempt to explain the different arguments used to justify the dropping of the weapons on these two cities.

Since the beginning of the construction of the atomic bomb in 1942, 100,000 scientists have worked on the Manhattan Project. During its time, the Manhattan Project was the largest collaborative scientific achievement recorded. It was the largest collective scientific effort ever undertaken. The project required thirty-seven different work sites, thirteen university laboratories, and many esteemed scientists. The Manhattan Project was also considered one of the most secret military projects in history. On August 6th, 1945, as US B-29 bomber plane dropped the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, the bomb approximately killed 80,000 people upon detonation. Another bomb would eventually be dropped on the city of Nagasaki only three days later, this time killing 40,000 people. After hearing the news of the bombs being dropped, a wave of joy and satisfaction swept across the nation. This reaction seemed to be shared between white and black citizens. Most Americans did not see an issue with using the bomb because it was used as revenge for Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, African Americans were hoping to be rewarded with equality due to their roles in the war. African Americans viewed the war as an opportunity to display their loyalty to the United States of America. The African American reaction to the bomb was very different from the majority of America’s reaction, rather than celebrating the revenge against the Japanese they took pride in their role leading to the

In August of 1945, President Truman made an important decision to drop two atomic bombs days apart in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I completely agree with President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on the two Japanese cities because I believe it is the main reason that ended World War II. Being from Malaysia, my grandparents often told me stories of their sufferings during World War II. As Singapore’s former Prime Minister concurred, the Japanese soldiers were mean, brutal and vicious towards the civilians, and if the atomic bombs were not dropped to end the war, hundreds of thousands of civilians would have been perished. Another reason I support the use of atomic bombs to end the war is because World War II has the most war-related deaths in history of mankind, if the war were to continue, more people would have died and Japan will rise and hold the most power in the world. Many minority Asian countries that were invaded would lose their culture, language and citizens, and hence the world might be different today.

World War II one of the biggest wars, occurring between the years of 1939 through 1947 in which World War II was the cause of over 60 million deaths. A war between the Axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan v.s. the Allies, France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. Coming close towards the end of the war United States and Japan are at war. The United States have taken over the war and Germany has surrendered, only Japan was left to surrender to completely end the war. Japan refuses to surrender and the Unites States grows with desperation to end the war. Especially after the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, which was a surprise attack from Japan to destroy aircraft carriers, but they failed. This attack angered