Essay Why President Truman Should Use The Atomic Bomb

June 1945, the United States was preparing for a massive scale invasion of mainland Japan. Military leaders in America were planning an initial invasion of Kyushu with 750,000 US soldiers and an additional 1.5 million troops to complete the invasion of Japan. The estimates from Navy and Air force generals said that it would have taken months to complete the invasion and there was also a chance the the US would lose. If only there was another option to end the war faster and without all the lives lost. Then came the Manhattan Project and the newly developed atomic bomb. July 16, 1945 they conducted the Trinity Test. The leaders of the Manhattan Project dropped an atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico and watched the blinding flash and gigantic mushroom cloud rise from the desert floor. President Truman had an immense decision to make. Millions of lives and the result of the second World War lay in his hands. President Truman should use the two atomic bombs to destroy the Japanese cities because it was the fastest way to end the World War, the end of the war meant the Soviet Union would not have to get involved, and it was his job to protect the US civilians and soldiers. …show more content…
At the Casablanca Conference in January 1943 the leaders of the Allied powers, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin met to declare that the Allies would only accept unconditional surrender from the Axis powers. After dropping the bombs on Japanese cities, Emperor Hirohito will have no choice but to surrender. The Japanese have no such weapon to return the attack on the United States and they have no technology to protect it’s cities from such destruction caused by the bomb. Hirohito and the Japanese people will finally witness the power of the weapon and the imminent destruction of the entire Japanese empire and will surrender to the US and it’s