The Pros And Cons Of The Two Atomic Bombs

The dropping of the two atomic bombs has become a very controversial topic. People have many different views on what should have been done. One is that the United States should of only dropped one bomb on Japan or that they should never have dropped any bombs and gone a different route. When looking at the facts and what the United States would have planned to do if they did not drop the bomb, dropping the bomb was the best solution to beating Japan in the war.
Research of atomic bombs started before World War 2 began. In 1939 American scientist decided to organize a project to make the newly discovered fission process for military use. The organization started small, they worked at the Columbia University in Manhattan and was only given a …show more content…
If the United States had not dropped the bomb then they had a plan called Operation Downfall. It was mid 1945 when they had planned it and they split it into two parts. One part was operation Olympic and the other Operation Coronet. What they planned to do was a shore raid with a lot of troops and continuous air raids from their bases in China and Korea. If they were to do this attack then they would have expected to lose around 1,000,000 U.S. soldiers in the process along with using a lot of resources to keep the attack going. The Japanese would have defended their land with everything that they had. Doing this attack would have prevented the loss of many Japanese civilians because the bombs would never have been dropped but then it would exhausted the U.S. of a lot of soldiers and resources while doing so. Also if the bomb was never dropped then the United States would have not have shown that they were a world power and their new technology. Also some people say that the U.S. should have only dropped the one bomb and let the Japanese of had more time to decide their surrender. While this has had some reason behind it doing the U.S. wanted to show their power and the technology that they