Dropping a nuke on a country can cause lots of difficulty. The Americans dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was the most controversial topics in American history. Truman was the active president who made the final decision for this act. Many people believe that Truman made the correct decision while others are in complete disagreement with the decision. President Truman made the correct choice in dropping the atomic bomb because it showed the United States had power, it helped end the war quickly, and saved many lives. The bomb’s damage became known worldwide. It made other world powers look up to America and realize what they can accomplish. The reason for this is because people noticed how much destruction it generated. The bomb wiped out an estimated 140,000 people (Faragher). The death count was very high, but with other attacking strategies, the number of deaths would have increased. At this time period, America was the only country that had the technology to compose such a weapon. Therefore, no country would have the idea to engage in confrontation with the United States. America had the ability to conquer the world with the nuclear weapons. …show more content…
Japan was already going to surrender, but they wanted surrender terms that they would find acceptable (Walker). They had problems within their country such as starvation. Britain and the United States had knowledge that when Russia entered the war, they were close to accepting surrender terms (Alperovitz). One might argue the bomb was unnecessary and we should have waited a longer amount of time to give Japan time to make their decision. The United States rushed the droppings of the two bombs on August 6th and 9th (Alperovitz). The author believes that the bombs were dropped too quickly, but the U.S. was just trying to get to the point of ending World War