Atomic Bomb Decision Making

On August 6, 1946 America dropped the first Atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. Three days later we dropped another atomic bomb over the city of Nagasaki. The death toll for these atomic bombs is estimated at around one hundred and sixty thousand people. (722) I wanted to find some understanding of how our government could order the death sentence of this caliber.
Within my search I came across this article explaining the process that lead up to the ultimate decision of dropping the first atomic bomb. This led you through who made up the committees and what details were talked about during the meetings. These glimpses into the actual meeting notes bring a bit of light into a decision that changed history. Within our reading, we read the basics about how this decision of “massive devastation” (722) was ordered. We read that Truman gave the order after counseling from advisors about other options. Yet with the article you get to learn a bit more about that time before the order was given. With the facts we have today it gives us a glimpse into the thought process the advisors and Truman were using.
The first interesting fact to me was the people of Japan did not seem to be a …show more content…
How, during this decision-making, the men viewed a country and its people. It’s interesting to me because the way they act and ideas they have, still are actions that happen today. We may not drop atomic bombs anymore but we still drop bombs. The bombs today may not kill as many people but they are still innocent people. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor that killed twenty four hundred American, we turned around and did the same but worse to Japan. If we had looked into other plans to take down Japan would they have worked? Was there a way that could have saved all those lives? Today we will never know these answers; we will just have to live with sorrow that it