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Truman's Decision To Drop The Atomic Bomb Case Study

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Evaluate and discuss President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan during World War II, which ultimately killed ten of thousands of Japanese citizens. I researched the different views that people have dealt with this subject.

On August 6, 1945, American bomber Colonel Paul Tibbets dropped more than a 9,000-pound uranium-235 bomb known as “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Within seconds, the bomb killed 80,000 people, with tens of thousands dying weeks afterwards due to wounds obtained from the blast and radiation poisoning. Three days later a U.S. major known as Charles Sweeney dropped “Fat Man” an atomic bomb that was more powerful than “Little Boy”, weighing nearly 10,000 pounds on the city of Nagasaki nearly killing 40,000 more people. …show more content…

A lot of people are saying though that was not the only reason why he gave the o.k., Truman wanted to get a message across that the U.S. had major weapon power and was not afraid to use it, and to send a message to the Soviet Union, who at the time we were having trouble with, that this is what we could do to you too. People said that the deaths from this was a small price to pay to show the world that the U.S. was a big player in the power

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