When japan bombed Pearl Harbor they killed more than 2,000 people why wouldn’t the United States fight back December 7th 1941 Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor a United States naval base destroyed the uss Arizona and sunk the uss Oklahoma damaged 9 ships sunk 12 vessels and destroyed over 300 aircrafts 33rd United States president harry s Truman believed that explosive usage was the best strategy to make japan surrender and end war faster. The atomic bomb was actually developed for use against Germany because Hitler was working on developing the weapon. It turned out he didn't realize the potential of the weapon, plus he had either exterminated the Jewish scientists who could have built it, or they had left Germany before the war started.
