The dilemma faced by Harry Truman on the atomic bomb
The Decision of the Century
Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. Mr. Truman became the 33rd President of the United States on April 12, 1945, a little bit earlier than his 61st birthday, after Franklin Delano Roosevelt had passed away from a heart attack. He never knew what he was really getting himself into. Only thirteen days had passed, since he became the President, when Henry L. Stimson, The Secretary of War, delivered a complete report on the United States of America's new secret weapon that would supposedly end World War II. The most terrible weapon ever known was presented and in that way, a little bit later, Mr. Truman was put into position that probably no
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On the moral base, the answer would be no, of course, especially knowing the fact how Japan had no allies and that its navy was almost destroyed. Killing over 200,000 people, most of them civilians, will never be okay. But, when you look at the facts and weigh the possibility of what would have happened if Japan had dropped their bomb first, or if America tried an invasion with an enemy to whose soldiers’ honor was to die for the country, then this was the only possible decision to make in order for the U.S. to come out victorious. President Truman’s' decision to drop the Atomic bomb on Japan was the right decision for your country because it saved so many American lives. He was facing a terrible dilemma, but his priority was his people and their lives. He had so many things on his mind, but he put his people on the first place. Harry Truman, together with many others, does have blood on his hands, but he also stopped the blood on all sides. The evidence shows that he understood that he had been forced by necessity to enter into evil. The ethical debate over the decision to drop the atomic bomb will never be resolved. Generally speaking, no one actually really knows whether or not he made the right choice, but he did, in fact, bring an end to World War