The congregation of the Atomic Bomb is possibly one of the greatest moments of triumph in American history. When president Truman decided to drop the A-bomb, he had to think very carefully about his decision. Truman was morally, politically, and strategically right in dropping the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The time is 1945, WWII. The ETO is wrapping up and finishing, but the Japanese are not going down without a fight. They continue to wage war against the U.S. even though we have won almost every battle with them. We have continuously fire bombed them with incendiaries(Mayo, Wayland)(Rauch, Jonathan) and have taken Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Their code is, “Victory or honorable death.”(Horie, Yoshitaka) The Japanese at that time thought they were the superior race to all others. …show more content…
We would have saved American lives, we were to save supplies like food, ammo, etc., and we were able to wipe out most enemies in one fatal swoop. Dropping the bomb would also destroy architecture like buildings, bridges, etc. This is very strategic because that one bomb saved American lives, destroyed enemy lives, and discouraged our other enemies to attack us. The moral issue was killing Japanese civilians, but that issue was solved when we realised that we prevented them from joining the Japanese army in the future. We were able to send a political message to our allies saying that we are powerful, and ones to our enemies saying beware our power. Truman was right in dropping the Atomic bomb on Japan.
Truman was morally, politically, and strategically right in dropping the Atomic bomb. The Atom bomb’s power truly was magnificent, and a great moment of triumph for the U.S.A. We saved many lives that day, in the present and the future, and we stopped a war in the