Was the Bomb Dropped on Japan Justified?
Date Submitted: 03/20/2004 03:25:36
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 2 pages (658 words)
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 2 pages (658 words)
On July 25, 1945, President Truman ordered the military to drop two atomic bombs on Japan. The United States warned Japan that they would face "prompt and utter destruction" unless Japan surrenders. Japan refused. On August 6, Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy over Hiroshima, an important military base. Japan still did not surrender. On August 9, the second bomb named Fat Man was released on Nagasaki. By the end of the year, approximately 200,000 people died …
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…it also started the fear of nuclear warfare. There were also possible alternatives to end the war without releasing destruction to Japan. What Truman did should never have happened. Dropping the bomb was a big mistake.
References:
http://www.pomperaug.com/socstud/stumuseum/web/msrbomb3.htm
http://www.doug-long.com/hiroshim.htm
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hamby.htm
http://www.peak.org/~danneng/decision/usnews.html
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