Truman’s decision saved the lives of millions Americans, millions of Japanese people, and aided in restraining the Soviet Union. The use of nuclear weapons was what ultimately put an end to World War II. Some say the bombings were the last attacks of World War II, but the first attacks in the Cold War. Overall, Truman’s decision to use nuclear weapons was the correct one. Works Cited "51g.
The ones who believe this, do not comprehend the many different factors in war and how the route that was chosen was best for both parties that were directly affiliated with the bombings. The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been fire bombed if the atomic bombs were not dropped, causing similar damage and death counts to the atomic bombs. According to Kyoko Iriye Selden, "The most influential text is Truman's 1955 Memoirs, which states that the atomic bomb probably saved half a million US lives— anticipated casualties in an Allied invasion of Japan planned for November. Stimson subsequently talked of saving one million US casualties, and Churchill of saving one million American and half that number of British lives"(1). With this amount of casualties projected, a land invasion would have trumped the death toll of D-Day.
The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japanese citizens in August, 1945, as a means to bring the long Pacific war to an end could be justified-militarily, politically and morally, by such points as follow suit (The National Security Archive). The goal of waging war is victory with minimum losses on one's own side and, if possible, on the enemy's side. No one disputes the fact that the Japanese military was prepared to fight to the last man to defend the home islands, and indeed had already demonstrated this determination in previous Pacific island campaigns (Sherrow 56). A weapon originally developed to contain a Nazi atomic project was available that would spare Americans hundreds of thousands of causalities in an invasion of Japan, and-not incidentally-save several times more than that among Japanese soldiers and civilians (World War 2 Database). The thousands who have died in the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were far less than those who would have died in an allied invasion, and their sudden deaths convinced the Japanese military to surrender (The National Security
On one hand, dropping the bomb freed thousands of Americans from Japanese captivity, but on another, it caused people physical and emotional trauma. The thought of freeing people from confinement outweighed the trauma. One of the reasons particularly is because the dropping caused fewer casualties and as a result, the utilitarianism move that the Americans had made was counterbalanced, because of the consequences of the dropping of the bomb. This supports the idea of why the Americans thought the only way to stop the war without a bloody mess coming of it, and as a result, more people would have died. To this extent, we see that in the scenario regarding the dropping, more lives have been saved because of how fast everything
But Japan refused to surrender after the first atomic bomb. Another atomic bomb was dropped, but in Nagasaki. It was called ‘Fat Man’ and was dropped on the 9th of August. The decision to drop the bomb was decided by Harry Truman the president of the USA at the time. This atomic bomb was designed by the world’s finest scientists at the time and had 50 times the explosive power of a normal bomb.
I do agree of dropping the bomb because it did save a lot of lives. Franklin Roosevelt was trying to find a way to end the war very fast. Then Truman had to end Roosevelt’s idea of winning the war fast. Truman wasn’t looking for a way to not use the atomic bomb. The United States wanted to end the war fast because we wanted the lowest amount of casualties.
President Truman announced the first bomb to be dropped at 10:30 am on August 6th, 1945 (“The Atomic Bomb & End of WWII” 1). In Hiroshima 90,000-166,000 people died, and in Nagasaki 60,000-80,000 died (“Atomic Bomb” 1). From both of the bomb dropped in each town only some building remained standing simply for the reason that they were reinforced by concrete (1). Out of all the survivors Eizo Nomura was the closest known survivor of the bomb, he was 560 feet away from where the bomb hit (1). It was hard for people to believe this guy survived, although he was in a reinforced building its still amazing that he managed to survive.
The bombing of Hiroshima, and later, Nagasaki were not justifiable military acts but war crimes. One of the major arguments about the bombing of Hiroshima had been whether the Japanese would have surrendered without the atomic bomb or not. President Truman said the atomic bomb was necessary to make Japan surrender quickly and prevent both more American and Japanese casualties. Others believed that there was no need for the use of the atomic bomb. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey issued in July 1946 declared “Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior
The Positive Effects of Westward Expansion There were many changes in the United States during Westward Expansion. Though many changes were negative, the positive things outweighed the bad things. Without Westward Expansion the US would never be the strong, independent nation it is now and we gained almost one third of the land that we own now. Also, another positive effect on the United States was the California Gold Rush, which brought diversity to our country and created jobs. After all of the bad things that our country went through, we came out as a stronger nation.
And with "The true, climactic, and successful effort of the Japanese peace advocates . . . did not begin in deadly earnest until after the 'second bomb had destroyed Nagasaki. "[iii] He makes his argument that the A bombs saved American lives, thus are morale.