Alternative Reasons For The Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki

In the summer of 1945, President Harry S Truman and the United States made the decision to drop an atomic bomb over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings led to the death and destruction of so many lives, leaving the death total between the two cities at an estimated 200,000, and a countless amount of others affected by the nuclear exposure. The attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the single most destructive attack carried out in history. People used the excuse that the bomb ended the war in the quickest way or that the bomb was revenge for the the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but the U.S. had alternative motives for the use of the destructive weapon. The truth is there was no justification for the attack. The innocent Japanese lives lost during the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not justified because alternative measures could have been used to the end war.
The race between the United States and Germany to make the first atomic bomb began in 1939 when the world found out that German physicists discovered the secrets of splitting a uranium atom. This had the people on edge thinking of the possibilities that
During the period of war leading up to the drop of the bombs the United States soldiers were physically and mentally drained from four long years of continual warfare, on the other hand the Japanese were refusing to give up. The United States military planners believed that the Japanese would continue to fight until their last man. Before the decision to drop the bomb was made the allied forces made demand for the Japanese for an unconditional surrender. The demand stated that a refusal of the demand would result in total destruction but they made no mention of the atomic bombs. The Japanese failed to agree to the terms of an unconditional surrender so it was clear to the U.S. it was time to release the