... 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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... 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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... 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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... willingness to die in the face of overwhelming odds had been intense. Their refusal to surrender caused the Americans to use excessive force in order to triumph over the Japanese. Although Japan was seeking to negotiate a peace settlement, President Truman and British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee released ... an end to the war and practically guarantee victory. Lastly, the inefficiency of a military blockade made the bomb an essential last resort. Japanese defiance and resistance seemed to intensify as American landings reached nearer to the islands. The American marines attacked the i...

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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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... . 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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... possible motives that are, even now, brought to the table. However, the protection of American lives as well as the refusal of the Japanese nation to surrender are the most credible grounds for the use of the A-bomb to end WWII. In December of 1941, the American naval ... base Pearl Harbor suffered a surprise attack. An attack which Americans would not soon forget. The retaliation for this tragic episode was a substantial part of the reasoning behind the use of the Atomic bomb on the Japanese. Moreover, as former President Harry Truman said in a 1945 radio address, ... wounded, and the ...

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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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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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... to do so. "It is in my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons"" (Admiral William D. Leahy, I Was There, 441). Another reason Truman and ... against Pearl Harbor that had occurred earlier in the war on December 7th, 1941. Since Pearl Harbor was struck by a secret military attack the Americans felt that Japan should be repaid with a similar act of violenc...

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At the end of Second World War, which ended in 1945, the fighting did not end. The Japanese were not defeated, and a bloody battle for Japan was imminent. Throughout the war, the race between the Allies and Germany to create ... than two months before the bomb was completed. But on June 30th of 1945, President Truman approved the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb struck the city on August 6th of 1945, and it resulted in 200,000 deaths. The reasons for the attack ... at the Yalta Conference, Soviet aide would result in new territory for the communis...

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... mark the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The exhibit stirred great controversy because many felt that it was biased and benefitted the Japanese. People believed that it would distort history by making the U.S. look like the aggressor, or the bad guy, during the war while Japan would be depicted as the victims who ... unknowingly had two bombs dropped upon them. As of now, history states that on December 7, 1941 the U.S. without warning was attacked by the Japanese in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. To retaliate, the U.S. dropped a bomb on Hiros...

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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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... it was a good decision and many that support that it was a bad decision. The first factor that led me to believe that it was a good decision was that Americans believed that the Japanese would never have surrendered. If the bomb had not been dropped many American lives would have been lost in an invasion into Japan. Another reason was that the bomb ... is a big investment into something that we were not going to use. We wanted to justify all this money and time by using what we had carefully created. Also the Japanese were cruel towards the American soldiers of war and it was time to te...

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... a bomb over Japan, such as the thousands of American lives that would be saved when soldiers did not have to participate in combat with Japanese. Nonetheless, soldiers are vigorously trained for combat for months and years. They go in to war prepared to die, understanding what they may ... nation an eternal enemy. Truman should not base his decision on public pressures. The public does not know, nor may it care, about the Japanese citizens. To bring the soldiers home is all the American public wants, and it would subsequently be a decision based on human emotion; worry ... would become ...

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... down to almost nothing. Japan was quickly on the path to destruction. (Grant, 1998). Of course, the Allies ignored this for the reason that dropping the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would intimidate Russia. Had they truly been considering saving more lives and bringing a quick end to the war in Japan, they would have simply waited ... , Truman was sworn in as President of the United States (Claypool, 1984). As situations developed and progress on the atomic bomb continued to increase, Truman felt that a Russian invasion of Japanese territory might not be n...

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... in which they were written was what kept me interested. Hiroshima, written by John Hersey, is an informative first-hand account of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Hiroshima first appeared as a magazine article in the New Yorker in 1946. It is a non-fiction story that resulted from Hersey's interviews of six survivors of the ... devastation and suffering that this story details. However, the story is remarkable in both content and style. Overall it takes a hard look at another side of an issue that as Americans we have not probably given due considerati...

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