... Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war against Japan. At first the war in the Pacific did not go well for the Americans. The Japanese seized the Philippines, Guam, Wake, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malay, and Indonesia. "In the Philippines in 1942, Japanese soldiers forced Americans and Filipino prisoners weakened by insufficient rations to walk 65 miles, clubbing, shooting, or starving to death about ten ... thousand of them" (Norton, pg. 763). This only served to increase American's hatred toward the Japanese. Harry Truman became President following the unexpected death of Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

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... 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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... 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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... there was the possibility of an extensive aerial bombardment or the full invasion of Japan. These were unlikely choices because the number of American and Japanese casualties would run into the hundreds of thousands or maybe even the millions. The last option was to utilize the very costly, powerful Manhattan Project ... nuclear war against the Soviet's years later. Both the Soviets and the Americans saw its immense power. It seems both were too scared to use it. During one night of American B-29 raids over Tokyo one hundred thousand Japanese lives were lost. That is forty-one thousand m...

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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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... 1945. It, too destroyed the city. The destruction caused by the atomic bombs on these two city's ended World War II, saving American and Japanese lives. (Doug Long http://www.he.net/-douglong/hiroshema.htm). The bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified. First off, if the United States had ... The President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, threatened to use the atomic bombs on Japan. Japan still did not surrender, so the Americans dropped the bombs. When The United States dropped the bombs they were not exactly thinking about the future and the long term effects. The Unite...

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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 weapon should not be used right away, but rather should be made and kept in readiness in case of an extreme emergency. Once Americans see the potential of the bombs, they would most likely do whatever possible to prevent the use of them. Also, during peace time the ... surrender of Japan as the United States desired. Stimson argued that nothing would be more damaging to the effort to obtain the surrender of the Japanese than a warning or demonstration that is followed by a bomb that does not explode as it is supposed to when dropped. Since this weapon ... refrained from bombing the ...

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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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... dramatically. Scientists working in Britain had discovered how to control an atomic explosion. This was a very important step to making the bomb, and the British gave their knowledge to the Americans. In December 1942, President Roosevelt began the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was a group of top nuclear scientists who were to find out how to make an atomic bomb. This ... house 6,000 people. This was a very secretive time and the scientists didn't enjoy their surroundings very much. Making the bomb proved to be harder than originally thought. The Germans and Japanese came clo...

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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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use of it against the Japanese". (Sherrow 74) Therefore, Stalin felt using the bomb was just under the circumstances. Though this is the case, the fact that the U.S. possessed such technology was a threat ... helped persuade President Roosevelt to launch the atomic bomb project, had a change of opinion in the spring on 1945. When he learned that the bombs would be used against Japanese cities, he, as he put it, "opposed it with all [his] power". Him and other scientists concluded that there would be some sort of after-effect, but ... , and that their troops were coming home. In this time pe...

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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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... necessary in defeating Japan in World War two. Many innocent lives were lost in an overaggressive use of force by the United States. Today Americans celebrate the dropping of the bomb, believing it was a crucial step in winning the war. However by examining other military strategies, looking at ... men took a more selfish approach to the bombing. They weighed a comparitive small amount of American military casualties to justify aproximatly 400 000 innocent Japanese deaths. By examing the following quote from Carl Spaatz, the man ordered to drop the first atomic bomb, it is clear that Japa...

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... bring the war to a quick end, with a low number of deaths.(Defeat 1) We now know that the allies were aware by May 1945 that the Japanese were attempting to make contact in order to negotiate a surrender and that Japan was being overcome by conventional might. (Defeat 2) What could have happened if we ... and nose dive the play into enemy targets. At the end on WW2, few questioned Trumans decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans accepted the obvious reasoning; the atomic bombings brought the war to a timely end. They did not have a problem with over one...

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... , the three largest Allied powers at war in the Pacific, the United States, Britain, and China, issued the Potsdam Declaration, which demanded that the Japanese Empire surrender immediately or face "prompt and utter distruction. 1 day before the declaration the new President of America Truman had given the order, in writting ... bombing They wanted to show off the bombs power to the greatest affect, and leave the best impression possible, in the hope of shocking the Japanese into surrender. They also decided that the booming should occur in daylight and clear weather, as it would make a m...

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... Hiroshima until today. The U.S. chose to drop the bomb because they didn't want Americans to die in a land-based invasion. But was the U.S. justified in dropping these bombs? Was it really necessary to kill that many Japanese civilians, or did the US save more American's lives by dropping the bomb? The ... invasion by land, so Japan would surrender. But when the U.S. took this into account, they were only looking at it from their side, not from the Japanese's side. If the U.S. did drop the bomb to avoid a more deadly land invasion, what do they call the total 170,000 people that died in ...

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... was dropped to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 (Tsuruya). It missed its mark but still had a devastating effect on Nagasaki causing an unconditional surrender by the Japanese. The making of American's first atomic bomb was a long and triumphant journey (Gene). "The blast also destroyed more than 10 sq km (4 sq ... the Little Boy was dropped and it showed that the majority of Americans in some form supported the use of the atomic bomb and the president's reason to use it (About). After the first bomb was dropped, the Japanese did not surrender so a second bomb was dropped. The second bomb ......

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... surrender" (7). It is absolutely astonishing that Mr. Truman did not pay more attention to the prodding of this man. In addition, the Secretary to the Japanese War Minister shared in an interview in 1963 that if the Americans had just made a second and possibly third attack on Japan, the small country would quickly run out of food, supplies, and weaponry. In fact ... , he seemed to strongly believe that "the Americans could have won without using the atomic bomb" (9). The fact that both American and Japanese officials believe that Japan was not far from surrender and that the bomb was co...

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