Millions of lives were taken during the most destructive war in history, World War Two, but the real question is how many lives were taken in Japan due to the use of the Atomic Bomb on Japanese cities on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that United States decided to drop in August of 1945. If you were on the Enola Gay, would you have dropped the bomb on Japan? There are many Americans citizens that disagree the plan of President Harry S. Truman to bomb Japan specially the scientists who had help make the bomb, since it was initially meant for Germany and also many American people still today, think it was just for an experiment on how it effected socially and economically on the Japanese civilians. If I had the choice to choose whether I would …show more content…
I believe that Truman was looking more at the future of the country as an historian Edward explains,“ Truman had much more to think about than the immedicate human cost. He had to look to the long term”(world book advanced). It shows that economically United States could have still won war with Japan, but the cost of soldiers, and more expenses such as weapons and transportion could do much more damage to our country. Many historians believe that Truman’s plan was the good for our country as one of them announced, “Truman and his advisters made the only decision they could have made, indeed, consider in the context of World War Two, it wasn’t really much of a decision at all,”(national Interest). The bombing on Japan was a huge victory for the United States, but due to many other battles, the decision to drop the bomb was the best decision for the many countries as it made peace. After the second bombing on Nagasaki, the United States achieved superpower, as it kept peace balance across the world and negotiations quickly began. With the dropping of the atomic bomb, the United States not only brought the war to an end, but, made it clear to every nation in the world, of their