... was decided over the next couple of days that the best decision up to this time, was to invade the Japanese mainland, however Stimson still felt that some way must be found of forcing the Japanese to surrender without sacrificing thousands of Americans lives. Stimson suggested that a last warning should be issued before the troops land on the mainland. By this stage of ... success of the atomic bomb in the back of his mind. To the American leaders though, the Japanese cause was hopeless and it inspired them further in their belief that "the only road to early victory was to exert maximu...

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... figure out how to make it work. There was not this fear with Japan. Also a revenge factor was set in the heart of Americans ever since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Many feel that the production of the atomic bomb brought about an arms race that cost millions of money. Others ... been five years and many had not seen their loved ones and were afraid they would not ever again if they had to invade Japan's mainland. Americans were not willing to sacrifice more lives to end this war. They felt that the developed technology should be used. After all, creating the atomic ... way to r...

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... conquests, the bombing of Pearl Harbor propelled the US and Japan into a Pacific war. The Americans could not believe that the Japanese had the nerve to bomb their military base, and over the next four years, the Americans secretly sought a way of revenge. During the war, the people of Japan had created ... desperately optimistic rumors for themselves. It is almost as if they had invented a world of fantasy. But this world of fantasy was really a world of deception. The Japanese had convinced themselves that ... had almost won the war and they wanted to finish the battle on home soil. If...

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... deaths would be at a minimal. Finally, the world opinion for the country of America would be changed forever. The atomic bombs helped the Americans to shorten the aggressive war against Japan. This would finally give peace to the war-torn world. Not only did the bombs prove to ... be a more dramatic loss than that of the dropping of the atomic bomb. Finally, the Americans have already lost many American lives trying to control islands that the Japanese had invaded earlier. Over 26,000 Japanese and American soldiers died trying to control Iwo Jima, and over 122,000 soldiers had died ... ...

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... fight until death (and not surrendering) was a central belief in Japanese culture. Nonetheless, the United States had a secret weapon: the atomic bomb. America had been motivated to build a nuclear weapon to use in case Germany built their own. The Americans believed that Germany had the resources and ability to build a ... told by Soviet intelligence of the successful A-bomb test, Stalin urged the small Soviet atomic bomb group to work harder to compete with the Americans. The belief that Truman decided to bomb Japan in order to frighten Stalin is supported by the idea that Truman did n...

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... figure out how to make it work. There was not this fear with Japan. Also a revenge factor was set in the heart of Americans ever since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The American citizens were behind using the bomb because they were tired of the war. It had been five ... years and many had not seen their loved ones and were afraid they would not ever again if they had to invade Japan's mainland. Americans were ... diary entry from 28 July 1945 by U.S. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal that describes Secretary of State James F. Byrnes as 'most anxious to get the Japanese affair ...

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... affect, and it also had to be somewhere that had not been previously damaged. If the United States dropped the bomb on rubble, the Japanese wouldn't know what it could really do. They quickly decided on Hiroshima because it was a big city and mostly undamaged. It was also flat ... This appeal was called the Potsdam Declaration. It didn't talk about the new atomic bomb, nor did it offer to spare the Japanese emperor, since a study said 1/3 of Americans wanted him hanged. The Prime Minister of Japan, Suzuki, rejected the declaration on July 28, 1945. Now the United States was forced ... ...

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... drop the bomb on Hiroshima after the intense fire-bombing of about 37 Japanese cities (Langley 17). He believed that, "The bomb will shorten the of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans."( Walker 93). Numbers of American lives lost in the battle of ... clarifying what it meant for the position of the emperor (Walker 104). He threated to drop the bomb but Japan's refusal caused the deaths of the Japanese citizens. The second reason as to why Truman dropped the bombs was designed to scare the USSR. Because the war was close to ending, to Truman ......

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... who witnessed the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima. They drew pictures, closely related to hell, so Berger writes about how sickening it was what we Americans did to the innocent Japanese people who really didn't have much to do with the war. He writes how what we did in the United States was not right. In ... deaths. I also, seemed to be caught in her own type of hell full of regret, due to the atomic bomb. Berger writes about how, us Americans we're not given the truth of what was really being planned during the war against Japan. They purposely kept us in the dark, hiding the horrors ... hu...

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... nation are fighting the same use of chemical warfare today. The two atomic bombs were dropped on August 6th and 9th of 1945 on the two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. Truman, our nation's president, said that we had no other options other then to use the S-1(the atomic bomb ... termination of the influence of the military leaders who have brought Japan to the present disaster....Unconditional surrender does not mean the extermination or enslavement of Japanese people. Japan is a nation rich in history, and overwhelmed with patriotic pride. Their country would have ...

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... an island; whereas on the mainland millions of people who would fight until their death to protect their country. Can you imagine if the Americans invaded mainland Japan where they had not only soldiers to fight against but also the citizens of Japan loyal to their emperor? Massive destruction, ... or they would shove bamboo shoots under their fingernails. The American government also wanted revenge for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese gave no warning to the Americans and no war was declared until after the incident. The Russian territorial growth definitely played a fa...

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... an island; whereas on the mainland millions of people who would fight until their death to protect their country. Can you imagine if the Americans invaded mainland Japan where they had not only soldiers to fight against but the citizens of Japan loyal to Hirohito? Massive destruction, immense loss ... bamboo shoots under their fingernails. The American government also wanted revenge for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. No warning was given by the Japanese to the Americans and no war was declared until after the incident. The Russian territorial expansion definitely played a factor in ...

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... Hiroshima, as it turns out, was no exception. Rooted in the nineteenth century, anti-Asian prejudice contributed to the way Americans quickly radicalized the Pacific war. When the first Chinese immigrants arrived, they were condemned as the "yellow peril." Then came the Japanese immigrants. They, too, found themselves the targets of stereotyping discrimination, violence, and exclusion that would lead to the internment ... Hitler and the Nazis, not the German people. In the pacific, on the other hand, American anger was generally aimed at an entire people; the "Japs." During the war, the J...

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... military target surrounded by other buildings. 3. It should be used without prior warning of the nature of the weapon. The Interim Committee decided against warning the Japanese about the atomic bomb because they claimed that they weren't sure if it would detonate. "Not one of the Chiefs nor the Secretary thought well of ... have ended the war themselves, without the U.S. ever having to use nuclear force. The United States also could have threatened Japan with a Russian invasion. The Japanese were counting on Russia to help them make peace with the U.S. without unconditionally surrender...

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... 20, 000 American soldiers would probably be lost within the first month. In reality, death tolls would probably have been much higher, as the Japanese were very prepared to use many suicide bombers, including high-school girls persuaded to defend their country. Of course, the losses at Hiroshima were great ... in Washington DC in 1995 in its 50th year anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Many felt that the exhibit was biased toward the Americans, failed to make the Japanese look like victims, and misrepresented the numbers associated in the death tolls. Furthermore, there was continuing ...

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... . The official reason given by then United States President Harry Truman was that it would save more American lives than it would kill Japanese. Prior to the Americans dropping the atomic bomb, many Americans had become upset by the behavior the Japanese had displayed concerning the bombing of Pearl Harbor and their particular cruelty to prisoners of war. The bombing of Pearl Harbor destroyed ... a huge amount of American bomber planes and naval fleets that were parked and harbored on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. As well as destroying the planes and sailing vessels, the Japanese killed ....

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... six survivors were coping to stay alive, helping other injured people, and finding their loved ones. During the evening when the bomb exploded, a Japanese naval went up and down the seven rivers of Hiroshima to rescue any injured civilians. Many people were confused as to why an atomic bomb ... bomb is being dropped, people can hear a plane fly over the sky. Unfortunately, there was no warning or sound of approaching planes for the Japanese people to know that an atomic bomb was going to explode any minute. Going into Chapter two, Hersey's description of what the main characters are ......

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... 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 ... 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. The thousands who have died in the atomic attacks ...

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... initial explosion. People who think that dropping the bomb was right say that the bomb was the one event that ended the war. Americans believed that the Japanese would fight until the very last man even if there were a dropping of the atomic bomb. Luckily for them the war ended. ... targeted at innocent civilians, not military targets or soldiers. Of course in every war in history civilians have been victimized, including Asians murdered by Japanese soldiers during the same war. In the rules of war I've learned that Civilian causalities are normally considered to be outside the lines of ....

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... two million American doughboys have been sent across the Pacific Ocean in hopes of putting an end to the hellacious battle against the suicidal tactics of the Japanese. Imagine the sight of horror and carnage that came from the land battle the United States decided to give a shot. Looking up and down the ... . This is what life would have been like for many years if the United States had decided to go with a land battle against Japan. Millions of Americans would have lost their lives on the beaches hoping to make a difference in the war to end it soon. Now imagine a chance to change hist...

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... cities in Japan in 1945, there is still an enormous debate over it. The decision to drop the Atom Bomb created a huge impact on Americans and forever changed the way that other nations view the United States. Gar Alperovitz's book, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, discusses ... William D. Leahy said, "The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender in being the first to use it, we adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians in the Dark ... be defeate...

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... the atomic bomb. The first justification is that we wanted to avoid large numbers of U.S. casualties that would mount in a amphibious invasion of the Japanese home land. The second justification would be that we wanted the war to be over quick. The bomb accomplished both of these Justifications. Winston ... Churchill estimated that 250,000 British, and one million American soldiers were saved by the dropping of the atomic bomb. On August 10, 1945 the Japanese surrendered, just one day after the bombing of Nagasaki. (Windle J. T. (2001) unnecessary Evil. The Fence.) The argument against d...

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... cities in Japan in 1945, there is still an enormous debate over it. The decision to drop the Atom Bomb created a huge impact on Americans and forever changed the way that other nations view the United States. Gar Alperovitz's book, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, discusses ... William D. Leahy said, "The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender in being the first to use it, we adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians in the Dark ... be defeate...

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... drop an atomic bomb in Japan. On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay left the Pacific island of Tinian to bomb the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, named the Enola Gay after his mother. The crew of Enola Gay was told that no one ... air the like of which has never been seen on this earth." It was August 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, when the Japanese government did not surrender, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki . This atom bomb was named "Fat Man." It was more powerful than the one dropped ... upward and then descending e...

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... cities in Japan in 1945, there is still an enormous debate over it. The decision to drop the Atom Bomb created a huge impact on Americans and forever changed the way that other nations view the United States. Gar Alperovitz's book, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, discusses ... William D. Leahy said, "The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender in being the first to use it, we adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians in the Dark ... be defeate...

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