The Pros And Cons Of The Atom Bomb

The Atom Bomb.

After reading these articles, we should be asking a lot of questions. Was it necessary to drop these bombs or should we have gone on foot? What was the worst of the evils? Who would suffer the most from going in and taking over. The number of innocent lives that were lost were incredible. These people had to see their children die and their families burn, everything they knew and loved was gone. The aftermath of the bombing has been just as bad as the attack itself. I am sure these people felt as if the innocent people were in Hell. As William Sherman said “war is hell,” did it have to be? I feel that if there was more communication between the governments, maybe we could have prevented the bombings and save lives.

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Scientists thought that we may be attacked by these bombs in war and decided that the only course of action would be a counter attack with the same type of bombs. The people felt we must justify why we have to drop the bomb, and what it means for us once it has been dropped, because there are a lot of responsibilities assigned with such a power. If we were to drop these bombs there could also be unforeseen consequences and we must be prepared that if they are dropped that we are opening the door to an entire generation of devastation. The country felt like if the could make these materials why can’t other countries, so we would be living in constant fear that we could be attacked at any time. They felt “In view of the foregoing, we, the undersigned, respectfully petition: first, that you exercise your power as Commander-in-Chief, to rule that the United States shall not resort to the use of atomic bombs in this war unless the terms which will be imposed upon Japan have been made public in detail and Japan knowing these terms has refused to surrender; second, that in such an event the question whether or not to use atomic bombs be decided by you in the light of the considerations presented in this petition as well as all the other moral responsibilities which are involved”(security archive). The people left it up to the president to decide whether or not we should

The quote “For Truman, the choice whether or not to use the atomic bomb was the most difficult decision of his life”(The decision). So the first thing they did was tell Japan you need to surrender, and that if they did not it would lead to total destruction, we did not tell them how we would do it, and of course the Japanese military refused to surrender, after their refusal Truman knew what he had to do. So on August 6th, 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima and as soon as it was dropped 70,000 Japanese were killed. Than after that an additional 100,000 people were killed from burns and sickness and radiation. After all was said and done, two days later the soviet union dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki and another 80,000 Japanese were killed. The quote “Critics have charged that Truman’s decision was a barbaric act that brought negative long term consequences to the United States”(The decision). This proves the point that the decision to drop the bomb was very hard and no matter what he decided there would always be people saying he was wrong because the Japanese were going to surrender. Some people felt that it was a warning to the soviets and showed them that we are a country that should not be messed with. Truman states that his decision