Truman's Decision To Drop The Atomic Bomb
War is a constant debate of right and wrong. Throughout the ages war had been everlasting battles fought and battles lost. Lives are sacrificed for the cause of men. One of the most well known wars of all time World War II was a constant struggle for world power. On one side of the world the Germans fighting in the east and the Japanese in the west. The end of the war was brought on by new technology and the decision to change the world. People ask if it was necessary to drop the bombs on Japan. Truman made a decision that saved the lives of American Soldiers as well as Japanese soldiers. If it wasn't for the lives saved, the Technology developed and the Decision made the world would not have devolved as fast as it has.
The lives that were lost in the pacific were due to the cause that the Japanese believed in. They were willing to die for a cause that they though was right this made them dangerous. The Japanese used various methods that were extremely effective against American troops. They were an intelligent force using tunnels as well as traps that American forces would come across during the island hopping campaign. In the Battle of IWO JIMA …show more content…
the Japanese used artillery fired from tunnels in the mountain to help hold the island. It is this type of ingenuity that allowed the Japanese to stay in the fight as long as they did holding the American forces giving little ground. The lives saved buy the bombs could equal 100's of thousands on both sides. In 1939 president Roosevelt started a program to design a weapon that could help win the war. This weapon is what many believe ended the war.
The design and research of the hydrogen bomb cost 2 billion dollars of tax payers money.
However, the benefit of this program brought not only America year into the future but the entire world with it. The research done to make these bombs possible allowed for multiple advancements in the fields of radiation and cancer. It was these effects that the Japanese's did not understand when examining those affected but the blast. The use of similar radiation is used to cure cancer. The advancements made by the dropping of the bombs would have never been examined due to the simple facts that is would not be considered "humane". The decision that President Truman made may not have been considered humane to most people. However, the decision was not his alone it determined by a committee of advisors who believed it best
outcome.
The Decision was made on August 6, 1945. Approximately 66,000 died in Hiroshima from the acute effects of the Little Boy bomb and about 35,000 more in Nagasaki from the Fat Man device. Before the bombs were dropped the death toll was 24,511 Marines and 1740955 Japanese. These numbers would have continued to rise if the bombs had not been dropped. The locations of the bombs were so there was a show of force to the Japanese without disturbing there economy beyond rehabilitation. After the occupation of Japan they now sit as a world economic power. It is always darkest before the dawn, this is the same with war many decisions were made but they were made to benefit a world that needed to be saved at the time.
The lives saved due to the decision to drop the bombs not only saved lives in the time of 1945 but in the years to come all the way up until the present. Technology has advanced beyond what could have ever been imagined in 1939. Radiation from the bombs help advance not only life saving capabilities but put men in space it is the simple idea that none of these things would be possible if it was not for the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
The lives that were lost in the pacific were due to the cause that the Japanese believed in. They were willing to die for a cause that they though was right this made them dangerous. The Japanese used various methods that were extremely effective against American troops. They were an intelligent force using tunnels as well as traps that American forces would come across during the island hopping campaign. In the Battle of IWO JIMA …show more content…
the Japanese used artillery fired from tunnels in the mountain to help hold the island. It is this type of ingenuity that allowed the Japanese to stay in the fight as long as they did holding the American forces giving little ground. The lives saved buy the bombs could equal 100's of thousands on both sides. In 1939 president Roosevelt started a program to design a weapon that could help win the war. This weapon is what many believe ended the war.
The design and research of the hydrogen bomb cost 2 billion dollars of tax payers money.
However, the benefit of this program brought not only America year into the future but the entire world with it. The research done to make these bombs possible allowed for multiple advancements in the fields of radiation and cancer. It was these effects that the Japanese's did not understand when examining those affected but the blast. The use of similar radiation is used to cure cancer. The advancements made by the dropping of the bombs would have never been examined due to the simple facts that is would not be considered "humane". The decision that President Truman made may not have been considered humane to most people. However, the decision was not his alone it determined by a committee of advisors who believed it best
outcome.
The Decision was made on August 6, 1945. Approximately 66,000 died in Hiroshima from the acute effects of the Little Boy bomb and about 35,000 more in Nagasaki from the Fat Man device. Before the bombs were dropped the death toll was 24,511 Marines and 1740955 Japanese. These numbers would have continued to rise if the bombs had not been dropped. The locations of the bombs were so there was a show of force to the Japanese without disturbing there economy beyond rehabilitation. After the occupation of Japan they now sit as a world economic power. It is always darkest before the dawn, this is the same with war many decisions were made but they were made to benefit a world that needed to be saved at the time.
The lives saved due to the decision to drop the bombs not only saved lives in the time of 1945 but in the years to come all the way up until the present. Technology has advanced beyond what could have ever been imagined in 1939. Radiation from the bombs help advance not only life saving capabilities but put men in space it is the simple idea that none of these things would be possible if it was not for the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.