... barren land in order to ask for Japan's surrender. (140) In reality, had the Americans made this demonstration on inhabited land, it would not have been any more likely to make the proud Japanese surrender quicker. Even on the slight possibility that it would have made the Japanese surrender, war cannot be operated and relied upon chance. Not to mention the fact that ... in even more casualties. Upon a land invasion, the war would have continued killing countless amounts of individuals on either side of the battle. Americans would have to face Japan defense that would undoubtedly slaugh...

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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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... 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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... comfortably. She busy caring for her children, therefore she never emerges as a leader or important character in the community. She holds no resentment towards the Americans, and continues with her life as well as she can. Dr. Sasaki (not Ms. Sasaki): He is a young surgeon at a Red Cross ... years after. He later tries to loose his past and get a clean start. Dr. Sasaki is one of those who feels bitterness against the Americans, and has a hard time overcoming the trauma he has due to this experience and also has problems continuing with his life. Father Kleinsorgre: A ... of view, from...

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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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... 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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... kind of destruction the atomic bomb would cause. Admiral Strauss stated, "My proposal to the Secretary was that the weapon should be demonstrated over some area accessible to the Japanese observers, and where its effects would be dramatic. I remember suggesting that a good place--satisfactory place for such a demonstration would be a large forest of cryptomaria [sic] trees not far from Tokyo ... . The cryptomaria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood. I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest . . . would [have] laid the trees out in windrows from ...

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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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... 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 day that went down in infamy". Hiroshima Diary, written by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, is a journal that records many experiences of the Japanese in Hiroshima on the day of and the days immediately following the bombing. The diary is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving, as Hachiya ... possibly caused by my Americanized identity. A different type of personal embarrassment was imposed upon me when I read some of the reactions of the Japanese to American troops in the days following the bombing. Hachiya, after meeting with troops at his hospital, relates in his diary how ...

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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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... 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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... 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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... , 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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