President Roosevelt at the time‚ began a secret plan called the “Manhattan project‚” which would become the most pivotal dangerous weapon on earth and become the saving grace of the war? What were the leading factors in the United States dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima‚ Japan? The U.S. made its decision‚ these causing factors; to end the war quickly as possible‚ they lived by the Bushido code‚ the "Pacific Theater of Operations" was grueling and an insurmountable mountain to climb in
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are not deemed to have been innocent because they may have supported the Imperialist Japanese Government‚ then neither was those who died in the World Trade Center or any Americans‚ because they support the U.S. Government! Yes‚ the Japanese did bomb the U.S first but didn’t more than half of the America people tell them they weren’t right for doing it on pearl harbor ? So if their wrong‚ what makes it okay for the United States? The United states was mad because Japan came to their land and killed
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Then the question of the ethical use of the bomb emerged. Many scholars agreed that “it is clear that alternatives to the bomb existed and that Truman and his advisers knew it.” Men like Barton J. Bernstein began to counter many arguments for the use of the atomic bomb‚ including using the bomb to intimidate Russia. https://www.nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htmHowever‚ the Truman was given four alternatives which included conventional bombing of the Japanese home islands‚ ground invasion of
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Lucas Goldoni US2 Mr. Oosting 12/15/14 Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs Essay President Truman was justified in using atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. As commander-in Chief of US Armed forces‚ President Truman was responsible for the men and women in harms way. Americans and Japanese were dying‚ suffering life-altering injuries and experiencing torture and deprivation in prison camps each day the war raged. Additionally‚ it is important to look at the cultural elements
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Both ‘’Hiroshima’’ and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb’’ were interesting works to read because they discuss two different views upon World War II. However‚ both works correlate to each other because at the end their message is simple: war inevitably causes death. Upon reading these works‚ I thought to myself how World War II is taught in the simplest form during history class in middle school. I never had a professor who explicitly went into detail of the horrors of World War II‚ therefore taking
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August 1945 the world changed. Two American atomic bombs were dropped on Japan with devastating effects. On the 6th of August 1945‚ the Enola Gay‚ a B- 29 Superfortress plane‚ dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima. This single bomb killed 80‚000 people immediately and about 60‚000 more within six months. On August 9‚ a second atomic bomb that ultimately killed about 70‚000 people was dropped on Nagasaki. The dropping of these nuclear bombs is perhaps one of the most debated decisions
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The Dropping of the Atomic Bombs during WWII On August 6th 1945 the United States‚ under President Harry S. Truman‚ dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima‚ a fairly large city in Japan. Three days later on August 9th‚ a second atomic bomb was dropped on another Japanese city‚ Nagasaki. A big question that is still argued today is whether the droppings of the two atomic bombs‚ that forced the Japanese to surrender‚ were a necessary act. Many historians and politicians argue this point
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Truman’s Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb HIS/120 Truman’s Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb On August 6‚ 1945 the B-29 Bomber the Enola Gay dropped the first Atomic bomb on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. Three days later the second atom bomb was dropped off the city of Nagasaki causing the conditional surrender of the Japanese. Weighing the Outcomes The Japanese were a very fierce adversary‚ the culture in which the only purpose of Japanese people was to support their Emperor. The ruler of
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the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945? The dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 by the Americans is a very controversial issue with no definite answer. Both sides of the issue have very justifiable arguments. Reasons for dropping the bomb include the fact that Truman’s options were limited at this point in the war‚ that the bomb did have the desired outcome of Japans surrender and that the majority of reasons America had for dropping the bomb are justifiable
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nations to figure out how to create a bomb‚ America won‚ with it’s elite team of scientists including Robert Oppenheimer and many others. After Otto Hahn‚ a German Physicist‚ discovered nuclear fission in 1944‚ which lead to him receiving the Nobel Peace Prize‚ the Manhattan Project was able to be a success. With this new power America was finally was finally able to end the war by bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Not only did the creation of the atomic bomb greatly impact Japan‚ it has changed the
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