Negative Effects Of The Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima

The atomic bomb is a nuclear bomb that was used in the World War 2 and had a positive impact on both sides of the war. The U.S would save more soldier lives if they used the bomb, but if they were to invade Japan they would lose a huge amount of soldiers.The U.S warned Japan to surrender to help the lives of the Japanese people because the atomic bomb would abolish many lives that were in the city of Hiroshima. This shows the positive impact the atomic bomb had for the U.S and Japan. As a result, the bomb would be saving more American soldiers because it was estimated that if the U.S. were to physically invade Japan they would lose about half a million soldiers. President Truman decided to use the atomic bomb against Hiroshima because it would
The process of the war may have lasted for nine to twelve years if it was not for the drop of the bomb. According to the article called “Pages from President Truman’s diary”, Truman states, “He and I are in accord. The target will be a purely military one and we will issue a warning statement asking the Japs to surrender and save lives. I'm sure they will not do that, but we will have given them the chance”(Edsitement). Japan was warned that they would get bombed, so after the bomb dropped, Japan later decided to surrender. The surrender helped save people’s lives and also help speed up the process of the war. If the war was still going on, people’s lives would be on the line and more lives would have been lost because the war would still be going on. This is important because others thought that the bomb would lose more lives than the US physically invading them whereas the US and Japan would lose more casualties than they lost due to the drop the
They wanted to keep a peaceful relationship so they settled it, according to article called, “Notes of the Interim Committee Meeting, May 31,1945”, the author stated, “we stay ahead and at the same time make every effort to better our political relations with Russia”(Edsitement). The US did not want any problems after bombing Hiroshima, so they tried to keep their relationship with Russia in good terms. The US also tried to keep it peaceful with Russia so prevent them from having post-war problems with them. If Russia found out about the bomb they would have denied the request from the US, according to the article called, “Notes of the Interim Committee Meeting, May 31,1945”, the author stated that, “General Marshall was certain that we need have no fear that the Russians, if they had knowledge of our project, would disclose this information to the Japanese”(Edsitement). Russia would have told Japan if they found out about the project, Japan probably would not have surrendered. The US then found a way to keep Russia from talking by keeping a political relationship with