Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb: Heroic Or Hero?

The atomic bomb was developed at the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the lead researcher of the project was physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. In my opinion, I think that the dropping of the atomic bomb was and was not heroic. I think that it was heroic because President Truman was told that with the dropping of the atomic bomb, and many supported it due to what happened at the attacks of Pearl Harbor, which the United States was supposedly neutral at the time. But the dropping of the bomb can be deemed unheroic also, due to all of the Japanese lives lost during the two attacks.

The dropping of the bomb can be deemed heroic. It can due to the theory that was given to President Truman that with the dropping of the bomb that one million American lives “could” have been saved, instead of invading Japan. But …show more content…
Also, many deemed this heroic due to what happened to Americans at Pearl Harbor. Also, due to Japan being in the Axis Powers, who were fighting against America and the Allied Powers. Also Japan had attacked the United States by surprise, and then declared war on the United States later ultimately leading to the United States declaring war on Japan, led by dictator Hideki Tojo, Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, and fascist Italy, led by Benito Mussolini. Also due to the Bataan Death March which was a 60-70 mile death march for American and Filipino prisoners by the Japanese Army, which led to 500-650 American deaths. Consequently for Japan that led to the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the Battle of Okinawa, in which the United States won all three battles, but lost approximately 10,000 live compared to the Japanese losing approximately 30,000 lives. Also the United States who were