After the war, atomic bombs have never been used again. This essay will explain the many reasons why Truman decided to drop the bomb. First of all, one of the reasons Truman dropped the bomb was to test it. The USA spent 2 billion USD to develop and build the bomb, and it would've been a huge waste of money and time if the bomb was not used. Also, even though the bomb was actually already tested on a desert in New Mexico, the area which they tested the bomb on was actually completely empty and isolated, with no human beings and no buildings whatsoever in it at all.
If you had been an advisor to Truman in the discussions leading up to the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, what would you have advised him and why? "The atom bomb was no 'great decision'“ -President Harry S. Truman. July 16th 1945-the day the Manhattan Project had accomplished its primary goal; building an Atomic Bomb. The theory for the Atomic Bomb was that the atoms in plutonium would rid themselves of billions of neutrons which, in turn, would split other atoms causing a massive chain reaction. This immeasurable release of energy would be the cause of the destruction of two Japanese cities, and perhaps America’s worst offensive move in the history of war.
Dropping the Atomic Bomb By Raymond Wisniewski The United States decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a decision to end the war the war faster. The bombs were against the Japan by the United States. The decision by President Harry Truman was the biggest decision the United States had ever made. Before Truman, Franklin Roosevelt has let a team of the Army Corps the task of creating the bomb. The project was headed by Major Leslie R. It became known as “The Manhattan Project”.
The only real problem that prevented the Japanese from surrendering was the unconditional surrender the Americans demanded. The Japanese thought the emperor to be descended from the sun god and would protect the emperor at any cost. If President Truman had agreed to leave the emperor alone and taken more time to negotiate Japan’s surrender, they probably would have. Instead, after the testing of the first atomic bomb, it was decided after a few days that Japan would be bombed. Even if Truman had decided to use the bomb, there was no reason to bomb Hiroshima.
Arthur H. Compton, a well-known physicist, urged the Secretary of War against the use of the bomb. Compton wrote less than three months before “Little Boy” was dropped from the Enola Gay: “Nevertheless, the importance of the problem considered and the weight of the arguments presented for never permitting the bombs to be used in war, are such that I have considered it wise to bring the memorandum immediately to your attention.” Here again Truman is given the opportunity to reevaluate his decision to drop the bomb. The question now is: “What were his motives?” Truman was given numerous opportunities to look at other options, but it is clear to the world, he went forward with his decision and destroyed two cities within Japan’s borders. Truman’s decision was not only based on personal beliefs, but was also based on other mentors who felt using a nuclear weapon was the only logical choice. This decision process would bring back to Truman a memory of a country that had crossed the borders of the United States with an unprecedented attack on Pearl Harbor, in December of 1941.
H-240.01 – Methods and Theory of History York College of Pennsylvania Submitted to Dr. Peter Levy By George Hay Kain, III 4 May 2006 Assignment VIII – Davidson Review Chapter 13 – The Decision to Drop the Bomb Part I - What did I learn from this chapter? To say that World War II ended because “Truman dropped the bomb” is merely convenient shorthand used by historians in their historical narratives. The actual sequence of events leading up to the actual detonation of the first and second atomic bombs is far more complex. As stated by Davidson and Lytle, “The difference in meaning between ‘Truman dropped the atom bomb’ and what actually happened encapsulates the dilemma of a historian trying to portray the workings of a systematized,
When they dropped the bomb It is a news article written by Dr. Paul Kengor who is a professor of political science at Grove City College. It was posted at Townhall.com which is a print magazine with a conservative viewpoint, which is primarily dedicated to conservative United States politics. The article is about when the United States attacked Hiroshima, Japan and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, which ended up killing 100.000 to 200.000 people. The article shows how grateful the American’s are that the war ended the way it did instead of setting thousands of soldiers to go to war in Japan and they would fight for so long without getting closer to peace. The bombing was necessary because the Japanese wouldn’t surrender, so the war would have
Robert Oppenheimer was the lead scientist directing the development of the atomic bomb. He knew the political power that the bomb would have perhaps better than anyone it was evident in this quote from 1962 when discussing his thoughts during the first detonation of an atomic bomb during the Trinity test "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds,' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."
Section1 & 2 In the beginning, a furious and crazy dictating monster was heard growling impatiently. Everyday music was playing about “The ancient beginnings of us all” (Raffle, 21). Hrothgar’s men lived in a great friendly environment until the mean and Evil monster; Grendel came and haunted the warriors. He was conceiving by a pair of monsters, who were the blame for the death of Abel. The almighty kept the demons out, but soon split into different forms of evil.
Chester Chan 29 November 2011 Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, is story of the bombing of Dresden, from living through it, and his attempt at an anti-war book. Once when he discussed his plan for writing with a movie-maker, he was asked, “Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?” (Vonnegut 3) Vonnegut knew how daunting a task it was to write this novel, and even when he was done, he told the publisher, “It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.” (Vonnegut 18) The name Slaughterhouse Five is for the slaughterhouse in which he was locked up in during the massacre, and alternately titled, The Children’s Crusade to prevent from giving war a glamorous image