Implications of Truman's Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Essay

United States. Many tough decisions had to be made that would be best for the whole country. President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan may have been one of the hardest decisions that a president has ever had to make. In 1945, during World War Two, Americans were growing unquestionably exhausted by the war. World War Two seemed like it would never end, and Japan would not surrender. Most American lives were centered around what was happening in the war. It was not clear to anyone when the war would be coming to an end. It is stated that “American soldiers and civilians were weary from four years of war, yet the Japanese military was refusing to give up their fight.” (“The Decision…

is rarely questioned; most come to the consensus that these massacres were inhumane and unjust. But there is one genocide in the world’s history whose ethicality is frequently debated – President Truman’s decision to drop the Atomic bomb on Japan during World War II; this decision led to the death of copious amounts of Japanese citizens, and although the decision is not irreproachable, ultimately it was the proper decision in order to end the war. The brutality and inhumanity the innocent…

Truman and the Atomic Bomb On August 6 and 9, 1945, the President of the United States , Harry S. Truman, ordered the “dropping of atomic bombs” on ‘Hiroshima’ and ‘Nagasaki’ Japan. The Japanese were defeated due to the dropping of the atomic bombs which drastically ended World War II. More than 200,000 people were killed from both of the bombings. Most people that perished were civilians. The dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” have remained still to this day the only time atomic bombs were…

Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb There are many arguments on whether President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan was the right one or not. Some historians say it was completely unnecessary while others believe his decision was made to save time and lives. The past cannot be changed but personal opinions on the matter can always be changed. Whether it was the correct thing to do or not, Harry Truman had to make the biggest decision of his life when faced with dropping the bomb.…

Where the argument fails is that it only establishes why intimidating the USSR was Truman’s objective, but does not discredit all the other reasons the leaders of the time claim they had for using the nuclear bomb, and it is completely logical and feasible that the dropping of the bomb had several motivators. Pavlik’s argument that surrender was imminent is backed up by three main points, the first of which is that the Japanese had already attempted to negotiate peace with Roosevelt on terms…