Although deemed immoral, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary due to the saving of American lives, bringing the war to a speedy end and showing the world the United States' new technology. The dropping of the bombs led to Japan's surrender. President Truman only had four options, to continue conventional bombings of Japanese cities; which had been deemed ineffective, invading Japan, dropping the bomb on an uninhabited island or drop the bomb on an inhabited Japanese city. "You sacrifice the few to save the many" [Immanuel Kant] This is exactly what the atomic bombing did for not only American lives but President Truman's decision also saved Japanese lives. President Harry Truman's decision the drop the bombs on Hiroshima and …show more content…
All you have to do is to go out and stand on the keel of the Battleship in Pearl Harbor with the 3,000 youngsters underneath it who had no chance whatever of saving their lives. That is true of two or three other battleships that were sunk in Pearl Harbor. Altogether, there were between 3,000 and 6,000 youngsters killed at that time without any declaration of war. It was plain murder. I knew what I was doing when I stopped the war that would have killed a half a million youngsters on both sides if those bombs had not been dropped. I have no regrets and, under the same circumstances, I would do it again -- and this letter is not confidential. " Harry Truman's decision was overall difficult but necessary, the decision to drop both atomic bombs did more good than harm if you look at the situation from a macro perspective. “I cannot conceive that the man who dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a machine. He also had a heart, just like you. He also had his wife and children, his old mother and father. He was as much a human being as you are—with a difference. He was trained to follow orders without questioning, and when the order was given, he simply followed it.” [Osho, Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the