Should we have drop the atom bomb
Date Submitted: 07/27/2001 13:08:29
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 2 pages (682 words)
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 2 pages (682 words)
Do you ever imagine the possible outcome of World War II had the United States held back on dropping the now infamous and controversial atomic bomb? The bombs killed over 240,000 Japanese civilians, about 100 times more lives lost than the death toll at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese invaded American soil. These two bombs, which had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T, quickly yielded the surrender of Japan and the end of American involvement …
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…returning home to their families and friends.
Works Cited
Boorstin, Daniel, and Brooks M. Kelley, Eds. Perspectives: Readings on American History In the 20th Century. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1992.
Dibacco, Thomas V., Lorna C. Mason, and Christian G. Appy. History of the United States, Volume II. Boston: McDougal Littell, Inc., 1997.
Editors of McDougal Littell: A Houghton Mifflin Company, Eds. The Atomic Bomb: A Historical Reader. Evanston, Illinois: McDougal Littell: A Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
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