What Is The Effect Of Truman's Attack On Japan?

In August of 1945, by the end of the Second World War, the world witnessed for the first time the extreme power of atomic weapons, in an unprecedented attack on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although, for many, the use of that new piece of weaponry had been essential and only done to eliminate Japanese threat toward the United States, specialists in the subject expose possible other reasons for such attacks, which will be further analyzed.
In a speech addressed to the nation of the United States after the first bombing, the former American President Harry Truman declared “Japan had begun the war from the air at Pearl Harbor”, and the nation had been repaid for what they had done with more destruction (“Press Release by the White House, August 6, 1945”). Bernstein argues that Truman’s statement is connected to the American people’s increasing demand for revenge on Japan for what had occurred at the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The antipathy of the population of the United States towards the Japanese contributed for the arrangement of such violent attacks, as it was paramount to determining the target nation of the new
Miles Jr. argues, however, that such justification was not given by the President shortly after the bombings, but “only when the necessity of the attack and the wisdom in releasing the weapons began to be question” (Miles, Jr. 122). This leads to the notion that the attacks were caused by a revengeful feeling in the American people, originated at Pearl Harbor, and that after the nation had been calmed and no longer claimed for revenge, and the necessity of the attacks began to be questioned, a justification that spoke of sparing American lives was quickly created, not in fact referring to what led to the