The Decision of Dropping the Atom Bombs on Japan
World War 2, the most destructive war in all of history, its exact cost in human lives is
unknown, but casualties in World War II may have totaled 50 million service personnel and
civilians killed. Nations suffering the highest losses, military and civilian, in descending order,
were the USSR, Germany, China, and Japan. The most controversial loss was that of Japan
from the decisions made to drop atom bombs that were looked at as the most devastating
weapons the world has ever seen. Many knew that the development of this weapon would
devastate opposing militaries and governments, but was such a weapon needed at this point of
the war nearing its end or did someone have to be made…