How Did Harry S. Truman's Decision To Invade Japan

The United States was in a long, and unpredictable war with Japan since 1941. They had taken the island of Iwo Jima which had injured or killed more than 26,000 American soldiers. Not only that, they had also taken the island of Okinawa which took the lives of 20,000 American soldiers and wounded more than 30,000 more. In the process the Japanese had over 100,000 casualties. War torn Japan had no signs of prosperity coming close to a proposed Allied invasion called Operation Downfall, and the estimated death toll was to be more than 1,000,000 Allied lives. After he was sworn in, President Harry Truman was informed of The Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was basically the research and development of the atomic bomb. It was Harry Truman's
Truman used to think that to invade Japan would be like "Okinawa from one end of Japan to the other"(Harry S Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb). Japan had over 2 million soldiers ready to defend their land. The U.S. had a plan on where to invade Japan and how many soldiers would go. The first part of the invasion was code named Olympic, in late October 1945 where over 800,000 Allied soldiers would go to Kyushu which was going to be defended by 350,000 Japanese soldiers and over 1,000 kamikaze planes(Harry S Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb). It was obvious that the Japanese would not give up their land easily. Truman did not want to destroy the Japanese culture but to ¨take away Japan’s ability to cause harm ¨(Harry S Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb). He wanted to stop the war, and to do so he had to drop the bombs on those cities. He knew from the moment that he was told about the atomic bomb that he was going to use it to win the war. The US knew that this war was going to be absolutely horrible. Truman made the best possible decision to drop those bombs. The atomic bomb was made for war and was to be used in and for the