The Necessity of the Atomic Bomb

On August 6th 1945, the innovation changed forever. On that fateful solar day, a nuclear weapon was employ against human beings for the first time. tercet days later on August 9th 1945, a nuclear weapon was employ again in anger, and has non been mapd since. The dropping of the nuclear bombs on the Nipponese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the final major act of violence in the most destructive struggle in world bill. The Japanese surrendered cardinal days aft(prenominal) the bombing of Nagasaki, and the war was in the long run everywhere. Fast forward 66 years to forthwith, and the argument of should the atomic bombs demand been workoutd serene rages on. The purpose of this paper is to annex to the argument, and explain why the chairwoman Harry Truman was correct in ordering the dropping of Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.\nOne beautiful thing about history is the fact that it is easy to confront back on with hindsight. Historians have had 66 year s to intuitive feeling over the decision to use the bomb or not. That is six and a half(a) decades of question material and studies available to historians today to use in their flip over over the use of the bombs. American chairperson Harry S. Truman did not have material complied over six and a half decades at his disposal when he had to make his decision to use the weapon or not. What Pre cheeknt Truman did have at his disposal, was a list of American casualties; a list that grew every day that the war drug on. By August of 1945 Hundreds of thousands of American multitude had been killed in World war II. The most recent troth before August was the American invasion of Okinawa; which was Japanese territorial dominion only 350 miles from the Japanese cornerstone Islands.\nThat ground campaign unsocial killed 7,613 American troops and wounded another 31,807,1 plus an extra 5,000 American naval military unit were killed, along with 368 ships and 763 Aircraft shot down.2 That was barely on the American side; the Japanese casualty totals were 107,539 troops killed, plus and additional 20,000 presume...