Atomic Bomb Essay “The people who preferred invasion to A-bombing seemed to have no intention of proceeding to the Japanese front themselves. I have already noted what a few more days would mean to the luckless troops and sailors on the spot.... On Okinawa, only a few weeks before Hiroshima, 123,000 Japanese and Americans killed each other. War is immoral. War is cruel.” (Dower) World War ll itself was the most deadly war in human history, spanning the course of over six years, six years of constant battle to the death. Many shocking and monumental things took place throughout World War ll, however nothing greater than the dropping of the atomic bombs by the U.S. onto Japan. I believe that the dropping of the atomic bombs was good and is justifiable. …show more content…
made clear the fact our constitution should be built off of specific core democratic values that all U.S. citizens should be given. President Truman in order to preserve and hold up the to right of freedom, had to make the decision to drop the nuclear bombs on Japan. They say that it also brought quicker liberation to people being held by Japan in concentration camps, including hundreds of thousands of Westerners. (online.infobase.com) Throughout the war as wars were lost or ships were sunk, U.S. soldiers were taken all the time. They were taken back to camps in Japan where they were kept in very tight quarters, starved, and beaten regularly. If President Truman had not decided to go out with the plan of nuclear bombing the Japanese, prisoners of war would’ve had to stay at the camps for much longer as to invade Japan would have taken months with longs amounts of preparations before the battles even start. Thus risking lives of many prisoners of war as lives of many were lost each day in the camps. However, some people believe there was a better way things could’ve been handled. Some against the use of the atomic bombs may argue that the Japanese were already very weakened and soon to surrender. "They were already defeated in every sense. We were bombing their cities without any opposition. The Japanese were making airplane gasoline out of acorns. So we knew that they were on their last legs." General Dwight