Why Did President Truman's Decision To Drop The Atomic Bomb On Japan?

Section A Plan of Investigation I have always felt very strongly opposed to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan. While reading The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, I came across a chapter that focused on ‘atomic diplomacy’ and was immediately interested. I was surprised by the complicated politics of the decision and the people, government officials, military leaders, and scientists, who all had a role to play in this major event of history. I was particularly intrigued by James Byrnes, the Secretary of State in Truman’s cabinet, who the authors seemed to indicate heavily impacted Truman and his decision to use the atomic bomb. Thus, the purpose of this investigation is to evaluate to what extent James Byrnes, the Secretary of State in Truman’s cabinet, influenced President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan by analyzing published works from historians.

Was it right for the United States to drop the Atomic Bomb? Many people have a different opinion on this subject either they support or oppose it and I for one support it. Those people have their own reasons for how they choose to feel about this topic and they are entitled to have that opinion. If the bombing on Japan never happened who knows what the outcome may have been for all we know the war would have probably continued on.

On August 6, 1945, an American bomber dropped an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. US president Harry Truman decided to end war in the Pacific using the Americans’ newest weapon of mass destruction. Three days later, a second bomber dropped another bomb on Nagasaki. Most of the casualties were innocent civilians caught in a global battle for power and supremacy.

Harry Truman Vs Hiroshima The 33rd president of the United states, Harry S. Truman, is to be convicted on the charges of crimes against humanity, which is a series of crimes or just a crime that targets a specific group of people based on religion, country of origin or any unrelated action a citizen does that doesn 't correlated with the crime, for the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The evidence to support the devastating bomb attack on Hiroshima starts with the side effects the bomb had the citizens and the effect globally and ends with Harriet Truman 's illegitimate and vague reasons on why the bombings where to take place. But first I would like to begin the argument against Harriet Truman by explaining what the occur of the bombing of Hiroshima actually was. On the day of August 6th at approximately 8:15 am, the world’s first deployed atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, a city near the coastline of Japan, by an American B-29 bomber, Robert A Lewis and Major Tom Ferebee.

This article, written by Tom Nichols begins by expressing an explanation to why Truman dropped the bomb on Japan. Nichols starts off by questioning if the dropping of the “special bombs” was actually necessary. He then goes on to explain that back in 1945 this decision was the right one and that Truman thought that by dropping the bombs it would bring the war to a close. As the article goes on Nichols continues to question the use of the bomb, whether it was a racist act, done for political means, and if Truman would have used the nuclear weapon on the Germans. This article is a great resource for my research paper, because it provides the possible reasoning to why Truman made the official decision to drop the bomb.

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima occurred on August 6th, 1945 at 8:15 AM. The bomb was a uranium gun-type bomb nicknamed ‘Little Boy’. The amount of energy that the ‘Little Boy’ generated when it exploded was equivalent to a 15 kiloton TNT explosion. However, when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 60,000-80,000 people were killed instantly. Over the next four months, tens of thousands more people died due to various illnesses which were mainly caused by radiation exposure.

Before World War Two, Japan was considered as a world power, an undefeatable country. However, everything changed after America bombed two cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There were many effects that the bombing had on the country, such as many innocent civilians were dead because of it, many civilians lost hope in their country, To start off, one of the factors that were greatly affected by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the civilians, and the numerous casualties it caused. During the first bombed city, Hiroshima, it's estimated from seventy thousand to eighty thousand people were killed immediately, which consist of thirty percent of the town population. While, sixty-nine thousand were terribly injured.

I would of chose to use the atomic bomb on Japan. I agree with the decision Truman because if they were already doing option 1 and it wasn 't working, they already had tried. Option 2 with Germany and too many wouldn 't got hurt/killed. Option 3 they don 't know if it would work out since they 're where going to do it in an area where they 're hardly any people do it wouldn 't really do any damage to Japan. I don 't think the other 3 options would have worked to make Japan give up.

World War II began on September 1 of 1939 when Germany assaulted Poland. By 1941, the Germans were ahead in the race for the nuclear bomb. They had a substantial water plant, high- uranium mixes, skilled researchers and engineers, and the best concoction building industry on the planet. Indeed, even before its entrance into the war, the United States had turned out to be exceptionally worried with the atomic danger of the Axis powers.

Imagine being put in a predicament whereby you have to make a crucial decision, either by dropping bombs to save countless lives or to let the enemy proceed on brutally killing thousands more…What would you do? Quite frankly I feel that the answer is a “no brainer!” Harry Truman’s decision, the president of the US, on dropping atomic bombs upon Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. Japan was the one who first attacked the American Pearl harbour, and up until this time America was completely neutral during the war.