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How Did Truman Decided To Have Dropped The Atomic Bomb Persuasive Essay

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Talking about atomic bombs makes the hair stand up on my arms. Those words used together are very powerful and very frightening. In 1945, there were many reasonings considered in using atomic weapons and not using these atomic weapons. Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb, and that forever changed the way that people view these bombs. The morally good reason that President Truman decided to use atomic weapons is, because I believe that he believed that it would end the war quicker. Atomic weapons are very frightful. The word atomic bomb just gives people fear when they hear it; now imagine the fear that it gave people when they heard that America had dropped one on Japan. I believe that the initial reaction that America wanted was to get Japan to surrender and start …show more content…

These lives of innocent civilians were lost on top of countless amount of people who were affected by radiation. No matter how good their reasoning for using these types of weapons, President Truman should not have used them. An argument to drop the atomic brom, from a military standpoint, is that using these weapons could put America superior over other nations. Dropping these atomic bombs would make other countries fear the United States army.With other countries fearing the United States, that could result in Americans being more safe, because no country would want to mess with our military. That is what the military could have hoped for. An argument to not drop the atomic bomb proposed by the military, could be that it could make the war worse. Dropping those bombs could of possibly cause Japan’s allies to come to their rescue and seek revenge on the United States. Dropping the bomb could have and very well did carry out tension between the United States military and other nation’s

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