President Truman's Mind During Dropping The Atomic Bomb

Things that I believe that Truman had on his mind during dropping the bomb is how many people he could kill if he were to do that. I also think that he had a lot of consideration that maybe it was the wrong decision that maybe he shouldn’t have made. It also didn’t help that he wasn’t aware of the citation until FDR died and he needed to take over as president. He didn’t have much time to think if it was the right thing to do. He did what he thought was the best thing for the American people.

If I were to advise President Truman under the circumstances, if I didn’t know the outcome I would have told him not to bomb Japan and try to find other options to solve the problem without having to kill millions of people that didn’t do anything. Some of the options that I would have given to President Truman is to send in ground troops to attack the Japanese. Truman thought that by having a ground attack it would cause too many American casualties, while I agree with the I still believe it’s a better option than killing millions of people live.

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By sending the bomb to an area that has little to know population fewer people would die. It could still show a sign of strength from American but just that we aren’t willing to kill millions of lives. My last option that I would have given him was to send in the navy and attack on water. We could have surprised Japan. Some evidence I could provide is from the article “the final act”. It talks about