When President Harry Truman made the decision to drop the first ever atomic bomb‚ did he saves lives or did he create a whole new Pandora’s box that we would continue to struggle with today? After gathering facts and meeting with our Allies such as the Soviet Union‚ he believed that dropping the atomic bomb would make the Japanese surrender quickly saving lives in the long run. There were many factors that went into the decision that President Truman made. After the bloody battles of Iwo
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The Atomic Bomb In 1945 the United States made history by dropping the first atomic bomb on Japan. This was due to an attack on Pearl Harbor and other territories in the Pacific Ocean led by Japan during WW2. The United States had no choice but to retaliate‚ and consequently released an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima‚ killing 140‚000 civilians. It was justified and necessary for the United States to drop the atomic bomb on Japan because they wanted to end World War II‚ impress Russia
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When the United States decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan their ultimate goal was to intimidate the soviet union. The relationship between the two countries was beginning to unravel. The U.S. decided that the only way to gain the respect from the soviet union was to display the amount of power they truly had. The war between Japan and the United States was a good way to showcase the power that they had. The bombing in Japan made it clear that the United States held all the power. Therefore
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detonated the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos‚ New Mexico. The Manhattan project started in 1941 as a race with germany to develop the first atomic bomb. The project cost about 2 billion dollars and 120‚000 people worked on it. Truman did not want to risk the lives of American soldiers if the allies were to invade Japan. Consequently‚ he ordered the use of the atomic bomb. The Manhattan project had long been underway. Julius Robert Oppenheimer aka the “father of the atomic bomb”‚ led a committee to
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thousands of other intelligent scientists worked on the development of the world’s first nuclear weapon‚ that was used to bomb the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ ending the World War Two. Soon after Japan’s surrender‚ Oppenheimer was called into President Truman’s office to discuss how the scientists and military could continue working together to make more atomic bombs. Oppenheimer tried to change the subject to international cooperation and trying to stop the arms race before it began
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the Right to Drop the Atomic Bomb “On the morning of August 6‚ 1945‚ the American B-29 Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later another B-29‚ Bock’s Car‚ released one over Nagasaki. Both caused enormous casualties and physical destruction.” (Maddox 1). These disastrous events have weighted upon the American conscience ever since that day in history. Even though there are some people that disagree with the dropping of the atomic bomb‚ President Truman’s decision
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Harbour surprisingly which displease America. This forced Amercia to implement “Manhattan Project” and produce atomic bombs to fight against Germany and Japan in 1942. After 3 years‚ the projects succeed that two atomic bombs “Little boy” and “Fat man” were thrown to Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively under the order of President Harry Truman in 6th and 9th August 1945‚. Under the atomic bomb attacks from America‚ Japan surrendered which also led to the end of WWII finally. For the total death toll
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then developed alternatives to end the war. These alternatives were to continue the conventional bombings‚ conduct a ground invasion‚ drop the atomic bomb‚ or conduct a demonstration of the atomic bomb to the Japanese (National Park Service‚ 2017). Once these alternatives were developed‚ the risks were analyzed. In the end‚ Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb. On the outside this may seem like a rational decision but the closer you look‚ the more you realize that this decision was skewed by bias‚
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President Truman’s Decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki During World War II the war in Europe ended after the unconditional German surrender at General Eisenhower’s Headquarters in Reims‚ France‚ May 7‚ 1945. "After the unconditional German surrender in Europe the war shifted to Asia and the Pacific. As the war continued against Japan the Allied forces captured islands such as Iwo Jima and Okinaawa close to Japan brought the Japanese homeland within range of naval and air
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humans have resorted to war in times of conflict or disagreement. Nevertheless‚ humans have never had tremendous annihilation power up until WWII and the creation of the atomic bomb. Dropping such bomb would ensure thousands of people would lose their lives some of who were innocent and some not. Although‚ the decision to drop the bomb is controversial it was necessary due to the stakes of sovereignty‚ ethnic cleansing prevention‚ and the end to Hitler’s regime. One cannot merely justify killing alone
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