In the first week of August 1945, the world saw the first and only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. The United States use of the atomic bombs on Japan, One of the most controversial decisions in history, resulted in the death of over 130,000 people and caused un-predicted effects on physical health and economic relations upon the world. Historians contrast the effects brought upon the world and justifications for using the atomic bombs as a solution to ending the war. The atomic bombs changed the world and brought devastating effects on the inhabitants of Japan. When President Harry S. Truman, made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in august 1945, left the world forever changed. President
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Japan’s mentality made it clear that withe influence of Emperor Hirohito, there would be a fight to the absolute last man in war. President Truman made the right decision to use the atomic bombs as Japan’s loyally and willingness amplified, and further drove the atomic to become inevitable to ending the war abruptly. As Hikins an expert in World War II history demonstrates the loyalty of the Japanese through early 1945 to strike at Japan 's war industries American B29’s bombarded Japan 's largest industrial cities, Instead of driving Japan to surrender, the Japanese used the air raids to aspire hatred of Americans and strengthen the will of the Japanese people to fight to the death as country (Hikins, 380). This illustrates that Japan’s surrender would have come with immense cost, as the Japanese would have relententlsy, in the presence of an American force. Similarly, with Japan’s unwillingness to accept surrender, refusal to be taken prisoner, and the traditional mentality of Japan’s population, such the Battle of Saipan, were the local population of the island jumped off cliffs or committed seppuku (suicide by disembowelment) …show more content…
As the Japanese already established their willingness to fight tooth and nail for Japan and the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa suggesting a substantial amount of loss of life and property for an invasion of Japan homeland. The atomic bombs were possibly the only alterative to what an invasion would hold, as author Bernstein defines with America’s potential Invasion of Japan on the horizon, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, details an estimation of over 250,000 American casualties and up to a million men for an invasion of Japan (Bernstein, 550). With America’s estimations and the expected outcomes of invasion of Japan, suggesting a bloodbath “an all-out fight to the death” between the Japanese population and American soldiers, The atomic bombs had to be dropped, as not dropping the atomic bombs the invasion of Japan would have most likely preceded instead, thus prolonging the war, causing substantial amounts of casualties and costing a great amount of funds and resources to overtsee the operation. The atomic bombs provided an alternative to risking anymore American lives. Similarly, by July 1945, the Japanese military continued refuse surrender. Instead, the Japanese planned to prepare for an
Japan’s mentality made it clear that withe influence of Emperor Hirohito, there would be a fight to the absolute last man in war. President Truman made the right decision to use the atomic bombs as Japan’s loyally and willingness amplified, and further drove the atomic to become inevitable to ending the war abruptly. As Hikins an expert in World War II history demonstrates the loyalty of the Japanese through early 1945 to strike at Japan 's war industries American B29’s bombarded Japan 's largest industrial cities, Instead of driving Japan to surrender, the Japanese used the air raids to aspire hatred of Americans and strengthen the will of the Japanese people to fight to the death as country (Hikins, 380). This illustrates that Japan’s surrender would have come with immense cost, as the Japanese would have relententlsy, in the presence of an American force. Similarly, with Japan’s unwillingness to accept surrender, refusal to be taken prisoner, and the traditional mentality of Japan’s population, such the Battle of Saipan, were the local population of the island jumped off cliffs or committed seppuku (suicide by disembowelment) …show more content…
As the Japanese already established their willingness to fight tooth and nail for Japan and the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa suggesting a substantial amount of loss of life and property for an invasion of Japan homeland. The atomic bombs were possibly the only alterative to what an invasion would hold, as author Bernstein defines with America’s potential Invasion of Japan on the horizon, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, details an estimation of over 250,000 American casualties and up to a million men for an invasion of Japan (Bernstein, 550). With America’s estimations and the expected outcomes of invasion of Japan, suggesting a bloodbath “an all-out fight to the death” between the Japanese population and American soldiers, The atomic bombs had to be dropped, as not dropping the atomic bombs the invasion of Japan would have most likely preceded instead, thus prolonging the war, causing substantial amounts of casualties and costing a great amount of funds and resources to overtsee the operation. The atomic bombs provided an alternative to risking anymore American lives. Similarly, by July 1945, the Japanese military continued refuse surrender. Instead, the Japanese planned to prepare for an