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To What Extent Did Truman Dropped The Atomic Bomb

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Truman and the Atomic Bomb Harry Truman, the 33rd president of the USA, made the decision to use the first atomic bombs on Japan in an effort to end WWII. After many years of war, Japan and the US both refused to surrender and had they continued to fight, there’s no telling how long the war would have lasted. This was a piece of information that Truman considered whilst making the decision on what his next move was. Eventually he decided to drop the atomic bombs, despite not having a way to accurately estimate the consequences it would have. Truman knew that Japan wouldn’t surrender unless there were consequences to continuing the war, so he put the necessary circumstances in order to push Japan to surrender. Truman knew that these bombs were …show more content…

After Hiroshima, Japan still refused to surrender so Truman dropped another bomb at Nagasaki. Nagasaki ended up with around 80,000 casualties and it ended up being the last bomb that Truman dropped because Japan unconditionally surrendered. With a death toll of over 210,000 Japanese and an estimated 12 Americans, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings have left a large mark in history as some of the deadliest bombings in history. Truman had other options aside from bombing large cities in Japan. This is why many people are split on whether he was justified or not. With two vastly different sides of the story, it’s impossible to say which is right. I personally believe that Truman was justified because it was arguably one of the most effective ways to end the war. Had he bombed an inhabited island, Japan likely wouldn’t have felt threatened, but his decision to bomb a city with many innocent people proved to Japan that he would stop at nothing. This fear pushed Japan to surrender, which ended the war. If WWII had continued, more people would have died over time than those who died in the

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