How Is The Manhattan Project Justified

From 1942 to 1946, the development of the Manhattan Project and the decision by President Harry S. Truman to drop the Atomic Bomb on the Japanese to bring an end to the Pacific War was justified in terms of diminishing both casualty and expenditure costs for both countries.
Paragraph 1: Birth of the Manhattan Project
In order to escape persecution in Germany, scientists such as Albert Einstein fled their homes to the United States in an effort to warn the United States government of German’s scientific breakthrough in splitting the uranium atom, which could be utilized to create a weapon of unspeakable destruction. In early 1939, German Physicists gained the knowledge of how to split a uranium atom . This caused mass concern among the world's scientific community, due to the possibility that this knowledge could be utilized to construct a bomb capable of unleashing unspeakable destruction. Scientists …show more content…
They believed it was imperative that the president of the United States be made aware of the scientific breakthrough of the Germans, due to the mass destruction that the technology posed to the world . Though the United States government was made aware of the present danger, they did not see it as a major threat . Though at first president Roosevelt did not see it as an imperative issue, he soon became aware of the potential that loomed over nations such as the United States if such a technology came into fruition in terms of both casualty and economic lose. This prompted President Roosevelt to approve an atomic research program in 1941, tasked with designing