Importance Of Dropping The Atomic Bombs During World War II

During World War II the Allies needed to find some sort of weapon to finally get Japan to surrender. When they found out that Japan had been trying to build some sort of weapon with uranium, then decided they would try it out also. They did some experiments, and when they figured out that Japan was building a bomb bigger than any other bomb in the world they decided that they had to build it first. So they got everybody that they thought could be helpful, They had scientists from all of the different countries that made up the allies working on making this weapon. The first attempts to build this bomb did not work at all. So they concentrated the uranium a lot more, and they started getting there. They also decided that they would
President Truman received a telegram from Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia, encouraging the president to use as many atomic bombs as possible on Japan, saying the American people believed “that we should continue to strike the Japanese until they are brought groveling to their knees.” Truman responded, “I know that Japan is a terribly cruel and uncivilized nation in warfare but I can't bring myself to believe that because they are beasts, we should ourselves act in that same manner. For myself I certainly regret the necessity of wiping out whole populations because of the ‘pigheadedness’ of the leaders of a nation, and, for your information, I am not going to do it unless absolutely necessary.” President Truman was clearly conflicted, he knew that the risks of destroying two big cities were huge. He knew that he would be killing innocent people too, even though it was the government, and military that was
They flew to both of these locations, and they dropped them, the bombs exploded 1,000 feet above the ground, and together overall these two bombs killed more than 150,000 people, some of them died instantly, and others died of radiation poisoning months later. After these attacks, it only took 9 days for Japan to completely surrender. This is what one soldier said “When the bombs dropped and news began to circulate that [the invasion of Japan] would not, after all, take place, that we would not be obliged to run up the beaches near Tokyo assault-firing while being mortared and shelled, for all the fake manliness of our facades we cried with relief and joy. We were going to live. We were going to grow up to adulthood after all.” President Truman made the right decision, he killed the Japanese, so that Americans could