Chloe Couch Mrs. Albright Writing 8C January 31, 2022 Bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Imagine you have been fighting in a war that seems neverending. Would you decide to drop a bomb that would kill thousands of people? This is the decision President Truman had to make. Much consideration and thought had to go into this decision. World War II had been going on for four years. Many casualties on both sides occurred. Many factors led to the dropping of the bomb including Pearl Harbor, it ended the war quickly which would save more lives, and the Japanese weren’t going to stop fighting. President Truman’s decision to drop the bombs was the right thing to do because it happened for the better. First of all, dropping the bombs would end the war more quicker. This was a necessity because this bomb would save more lives than it took because the Japanese would not stop fighting. This is shown in the Potsdam Declaration where the Japanese rejected the offer of surrender (Doc 1). The Potsdam Declaration occurred on July 26th, 1945, and was an ultimatum made by The U.S., China, and Great Britain calling for the surrender of Japan. The terms consisted of Japan’s surrender, outside occupation of …show more content…
This atomic weapon was brand new and could cause lots of destruction. The bomb’s devastation was fast. In just ten minutes the cloud of smoke rose over 60,000 feet (Doc G). The bomb vaporized miles killing and destroying within a second (OI/nationalww2museum.org). Although this was not ideal, it had to be done. In addition the pilot of the Enola Gay, Colonel Tibbets spoke about his role. He put it in the perspective of “We saved more lives than we took. It would have been morally wrong if we’d have had that weapon and not used it and let a million more people die (Doc L).” He was saying that since they had this new technology they had to use it because they saved more