How Did Truman Rise To Power
The decision maker of the time was Harry Truman; the united states president in 1945, a man who was determinedly for the dropping of the bombs.
Truman's rise to power was unconventional to say the least, he had a seemingly normal life and family which registered well with the american populous and from there he was backed with support in becoming a senator for his home state missouri and then briefly serving as vice president before succeeding to presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Roosevelt.
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But the bomb had been aimed not at the military base but at the very center of a city of 350,000, with the vast majority women, children and elderly males. Hiroshima had been chosen for two reasons; it was somewhat untouched by the war, meaning its large population was still in place and the bomb’s effects could be fully judged. Also the hills which surround the city would have a “focusing effect”, increasing the bomb’s destructive force. A US survey of the damage, not released to the press at the time, found that the residential areas of Hiroshima felt the “full impact of the bomb, with less than 10 percent of the city’s industrial buildings damaged”. Truman also failed to inform the world of the radiation effects, which officials did know would be disastrous. Cancer being the most documented long term effect, even in the children of the survivors.
Truman's perspective is fully justifiable, at the time he made an informed decision for his country, a decision he believed was right, although its seems to me it had always been his first choice, he did state that it was his “hardest decision to date”. He made plenty of statements in the years after, having had time to reflect on his decision and still maintained it was the best course of action. It was for these political and military motives that truman felt justified in his decision on dropping the atomic bombs
Truman's rise to power was unconventional to say the least, he had a seemingly normal life and family which registered well with the american populous and from there he was backed with support in becoming a senator for his home state missouri and then briefly serving as vice president before succeeding to presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Roosevelt.
Truman …show more content…
But the bomb had been aimed not at the military base but at the very center of a city of 350,000, with the vast majority women, children and elderly males. Hiroshima had been chosen for two reasons; it was somewhat untouched by the war, meaning its large population was still in place and the bomb’s effects could be fully judged. Also the hills which surround the city would have a “focusing effect”, increasing the bomb’s destructive force. A US survey of the damage, not released to the press at the time, found that the residential areas of Hiroshima felt the “full impact of the bomb, with less than 10 percent of the city’s industrial buildings damaged”. Truman also failed to inform the world of the radiation effects, which officials did know would be disastrous. Cancer being the most documented long term effect, even in the children of the survivors.
Truman's perspective is fully justifiable, at the time he made an informed decision for his country, a decision he believed was right, although its seems to me it had always been his first choice, he did state that it was his “hardest decision to date”. He made plenty of statements in the years after, having had time to reflect on his decision and still maintained it was the best course of action. It was for these political and military motives that truman felt justified in his decision on dropping the atomic bombs