left with the same question, a question that still generates heated debates. Was the United States justified

in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? My response has always been, yes. It was

necessary that we have Japan’s unconditional surrender, keep Russia out of East Asia and cut down on

the cost of lives, Japanese and American. To insure these things, the United States was forced to drop

It was absolutely essential that the loss of American lives be decreased. By July of 1945, it was

estimated that there had been “... more than 1 million casualties, including those killed, missing in action,

and wounded.”(July 1945: The Moment of Decision) Especially of note is the fact that two of the battles

with the highest casualties were those at Okinawa and Iwo Jima, against the Japanese. Though defeat

was not unnecessary, thoughtless, or a needless crime against humanity. The decision to drop the atomic

of influence” in Japan would have given Russia a foot hold from which to spread communism in East

and if faced with the same decision today I am certain the same conclusion, in order to preserve as many

possible conclusions to this scenario potentially apocalyptic. These possibilities also made keeping Russia

bombs was doubtlessly a difficult one to make, but in the end it was what or leaders believed was best

It may be have been Machiavellian, it may have been horrific in it’s destructive potential, and it

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