Why Is The Atomic Bomb Wrong

By avoiding a highly questionable land invasion, the bomb saved “half a million” American lives. In his personal diary, Truman wrote, “General Marshall told me that it might cost half a million American lives to force the enemy’s surrender on his home grounds.” This estimate was based on previous battle figures at Okinawa, where Americans suffered 50,000 casualties despite outnumbering the Japanese by two and a half to one.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a bombing attack on the American naval base in Pearl Harbor. This attack on the U.S. brought America into World War II. One Japanese general commented “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” (Yamamoto) Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. created a much larger enemy than they intended. After the attack the U.S. embarked on a bloody and hard fought campaign through the pacific, which ultimately led to the Dropping of two atomic bombs and the surrender of Japan. Although many lives were lost the American decision to drop the bombs was justified because it ended the war quickly, saved american lives, and showed the world the power of the U.S. The Pacific War was a long and drawn out process that was moving very slowly for the United States, was struggling to pull off any major naval victory and from the mistakes made of the U.S. basically leaving the Japanese unattended while they were fighting the Germans in Europe. The American decision to drop the Bombs was justified because the U.S. wanted to end the war quickly and not to have a costly invasion of the Japanese Homeland as well as showing power to the world. Truman wanted to end the war as fast as he could because we had been in conflict for 4 years now and the American forces were very weary and tired of war, the U.S. dropped it for the other reason of

Was Truman actually justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima? The atomic bomb on hiroshima was devastating. It killed thousands of people in the process of finishing the war. Truman and the rest of the country were rushed in finishing the war but didn’t want to lose any more men than they had to. In the writer’s opinion Truman was not justified in dropping the atomic bomb because of how many lives were lost and how inhumane it was to drop the bomb.

In August 1945 President Truman decided to drop two atomic bombs on japan. Just the bomb in Hiroshima killed 146,000 people. Killed all 226,000 people in all. Dropping the bomb was a huge deal. President Truman did not have to drop the bomb to end’ the war. An atomic bomb is a very powerful bomb. This bomb destroyed a whole city and killed lots of people.

The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki put an end to the Japanese war. It stopped the fire raids, and the strangling blockade; it ended the ghastly specter of a clash of great land armies. In this last great action of the Second World War we were given final proof that war is death." Death is inevitable in war. The fights would have continued until either the U.S. or Japan surrendered which could have taken months to happen. Many people died during the war. The U.S. not dropping the Atomic Bomb would have led to having more battles in Japan, more deaths. In 1990, Paul Fussell, a World War II Soldier, wrote an article, Thank God for the Atomic Bomb. In it he writes, “On Okinawa, only a few weeks before Hiroshima, 123,000 Japanese and Americans killed each other. War is immoral. War is cruel.” Numerous Japanese live were lost in battles throughout the war. The Atomic Bomb killed 39,000–80,000 people in Nagasaki. This one battle alone killed 123,000 people. More battles like this would have been fought and more people would have died then the amount of people who died due to the

The operation introduced the world to one of the most potent and destructive weapons mankind had ever seen, and later led to the use of the bomb on thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians in Japan. Because of the tremendous number of civilian casualties, many question Truman's morality. Some argue that Truman's administration had substantial evidence that the Japanese would have surrendered if they were able to keep their emperor. They also point out that civilians-despite being in the general area of Japanese military bases- were the primary targets. Others argue that the bombings actually saved the lives of thousands of American and Japanese lives because it prevented an invasion of Japan by the United States, seeing that it was Truman's alternative choice to the bombings. The Manhattan Project was also a direct correlation with the introduction of nuclear warfare to humankind and the beginning of a nuclear arms race against the Soviet Union, who, after receiving the blueprints from their spies in the U.S, began to build up their own nuclear arsenal and posed a threat to the United

On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb that the world had ever seen was dropped onto Hiroshima on orders of President Harry S. Truman. Three days later, a second bomb fell onto Nagasaki. While not all may find the bombs necessary to end the war with Japan, Truman had his own reasons for causing such devastation. He wanted the fastest possible end to the war to save soldiers’ lives, many Americans, as well as his key advisor, Byrnes, wanted the “unconditional surrender” (Walker 46) of Japan, and there was hatred still harbored against the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

In 1945, President Truman had to make one of the toughest decisions a president has ever been faced with. This decision, of course, being whether to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese cities, not drop the bombs at all, or do a demonstration by dropping a bomb in the ocean near Tokyo. Truman eventually chose to drop the atomic bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. This choice to drop the atomic bombs was right because these bombings assisted in slowing the expansion of the Soviet Union, changed the Japanese never-give-up mentality, and prevented the loss of many American and Japanese lives.

Why the bomb seemed like it would make the war worst it actually ended the war quicker. The war ended quicker because it finally caused Japan to surrender and accept the defeat. “The atomic bomb did not win the war. Japan had been defeated already by land, sea, and air campaign that went before. It is reasonable to conclude, however, that the bomb did force the Japanese surrender -- and considerably sooner than it would have occurred otherwise.” (Text 1 Page 8). The bomb did not win but it ended it because Japan’s way of fighting is fight to the last man and it is better to die in combat than to surrender. If the bomb had been dropped sooner it would’ve been the factor that won the war, but since Japan had little fighting effort in the air

President Truman, decision over booming Japan is a significant period of time that molds the United States. The crucial decision that was made on August of 1945, brought World War II to an end. While bringing the WWII to an end, it attracted a lot of debates over the use of the atomic bombs in the war. Even though the WWII has ended decades ago debates still lingers to this point. Having people in both sides of the debates, makes people wonder if the use of the first atomic bomb in the world was used properly or not.

August 6, 1945; the very way of life in Hiroshima, Japan would change forever based on one order from U.S. president Harry S. Truman. The first and only atomic weapon ever used was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki only three days later to supposedly end the long and brutal war between Japan and the United States during WWII. Harry Truman’s logic was that Japan looked to not be surrendering anytime soon; and continued fighting would claim drastic numbers of American lives. One of the biggest debates to ever exist; were these atomic bombs just? To set the record straight; it was not in the least just to drop atomic weaponry with little warning on countless innocents; children, mothers, elderly, all killed in a small-time slot.

I think it was wrong for the United States to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think this because they took innocent lives. About 350,000 people died that day because of the fires and strong radiation. In the article, The Hiroshima bombing: What you need to know about the nuclear attack, it said, “About 350,000 residents and military members were living in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing. Thousands were killed instantly. By December 1945, about 140,000 people in Hiroshima are believed to have died from intense radiation and other immediate results of the blast, such as fires. More than 6,000 of the dead were junior high school students. They had been mobilized that Monday morning by Japan’s government to clear

Of all the political and military choices ever, few have been liable to a bigger number of investigation and remark than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Miles, 1985,121). Researchers in the field have thought about the vexing inquiry of why the United States chose to utilize the atomic bomb close to the finish of the Second World War. A watchful investigation of the basic occasions paving the way to 6 August 1945 offers numerous particular clarifications. Contemporary exchanges on the topic present a large group of speculations yet taken independently they are a long way from fulfilling.

The decision to drop the Atomic bombs was a hard one to make. The bomb had not been tested until July 1945, and, while Truman was aware that radiation would linger, the extent of the damaging effects were unknown. The United States was in a situation where the war in the Pacific had no end in sight. Operation Downfall would have ended in heavy losses on both sides and alternatives to the bomb didn’t guarantee a quick end to the fighting. Truman did the right thing by dropping the bombs, as it shortened the war. At the time, it was the best course of action he

If Truman had felt that the bomb did more harm than good he wouldn't have the same speech, if any speech at all. Though the bomb did put an end to the war, there were still arguments against the use of it. Some believe the bomb was racially motivated due to the extreme hate towards Japanese, and anti-Japanese propaganda. The propaganda as placed in all forms of media and even urged the extermination of all "Japs" (racial slur towards the Japanese). All the while the Japanese were being dehumanized which made killing them seem okay. People believe that there were alternatives to the bombing such as a demonstration of the bomb that could have convinced them to stop resisting. Or that America could have kept bombing them conventional till they surrendered. Another argument was that the bomb was inhuman due to it killing civilians that had no part in the war. This also leads to another argument that Truman didn't actually know the damage the bomb was gonna