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The Pros And Cons Of Justifying The Bombing Of The Atomic Bomb

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The dropping of the atomic bombs was necessary to bring an end to the war.
The Americans had lost an estimated 418,000 troops. The Americans could never have known how many people would be killed between the two bombs. The fact of the matter remains that an estimated 135,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and approximately between 50,000 to 74,000 were killed on the hit at Nagasaki. The death toll was almost half of what the Americans had lost. The Americans reasoned that they were justified in taking approximately 200,000 Japanese lives. People might argue that America could have used other means at there disposal such as payloads of bombs from the b-29 bombers. The atomic bombs had the explosive power of two thousand pounds. The Americans
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