Truman's Decision To Drop The Atomic Bomb Analysis
Truman’s Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb
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Truman’s Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb
On August 6, 1945 the B-29 Bomber the Enola Gay dropped the first Atomic bomb on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. Three days later the second atom bomb was dropped off the city of Nagasaki causing the conditional surrender of the Japanese.
Weighing the Outcomes
The Japanese were a very fierce adversary, the culture in which the only purpose of Japanese people was to support their Emperor. The ruler of Japan was their supreme leader, he was the head of the Shintô religion. This was Japan’s native religion, which believes that the emperor is descended from gods who created Japan and is therefore semi divine. The Japanese would give their lives in order to cause damage to their enemies. The kamikaze pilots, who were named for the "divine wind" (kami kaze), would fly their plane into the ships of their enemies to cause the most amount of damage. The battles that took place on the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa have shown how difficult a full invasion of Japan would be. Out of a total of 22000 Japanese soldiers that were on the island of Iwo Jima 21000 would be killed in battle. The Marines that took the island told tales of Japanese soldiers that would run themselves through …show more content…
The fact the United States military had been at war for the last four years played into the decision. An invasion would last months and possibly years, the Japanese would augment their troop with Japanese Home Defense Troops employing civilians into the fight. Truman’s decision to use the Atom bomb saved lives in my opinion and certainly brought the war to its shortest possible conclusion. Even after the second bomb was dropped the Japanese only surrendered under the condition that the Emperor was to stay in place. This shows the lengths that the Japanese would endure for their
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Truman’s Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb
On August 6, 1945 the B-29 Bomber the Enola Gay dropped the first Atomic bomb on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. Three days later the second atom bomb was dropped off the city of Nagasaki causing the conditional surrender of the Japanese.
Weighing the Outcomes
The Japanese were a very fierce adversary, the culture in which the only purpose of Japanese people was to support their Emperor. The ruler of Japan was their supreme leader, he was the head of the Shintô religion. This was Japan’s native religion, which believes that the emperor is descended from gods who created Japan and is therefore semi divine. The Japanese would give their lives in order to cause damage to their enemies. The kamikaze pilots, who were named for the "divine wind" (kami kaze), would fly their plane into the ships of their enemies to cause the most amount of damage. The battles that took place on the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa have shown how difficult a full invasion of Japan would be. Out of a total of 22000 Japanese soldiers that were on the island of Iwo Jima 21000 would be killed in battle. The Marines that took the island told tales of Japanese soldiers that would run themselves through …show more content…
The fact the United States military had been at war for the last four years played into the decision. An invasion would last months and possibly years, the Japanese would augment their troop with Japanese Home Defense Troops employing civilians into the fight. Truman’s decision to use the Atom bomb saved lives in my opinion and certainly brought the war to its shortest possible conclusion. Even after the second bomb was dropped the Japanese only surrendered under the condition that the Emperor was to stay in place. This shows the lengths that the Japanese would endure for their