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    President Truman’s Decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki During World War II the war in Europe ended after the unconditional German surrender at General Eisenhower’s Headquarters in Reims‚ France‚ May 7‚ 1945. "After the unconditional German surrender in Europe the war shifted to Asia and the Pacific. As the war continued against Japan the Allied forces captured islands such as Iwo Jima and Okinaawa close to Japan brought the Japanese homeland within range of naval and air

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    President Truman had decided to drop atomic bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There’ been a debate ever since on whether or not his decision was reasonable. Japan was ready to surrender and on the verge of collapsing. One could argue that the bombing was barbaric and unnecessary. President Along those lines‚ Truman’s decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unjustified. Japan had considered surrendering before the two atomic bombs were dropped. According to "United States history: Reconstruction

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    Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima

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    the United States military and political leaders dreaded a bloody invasion of the Japanese main land‚ but few believed it couldn’t be avoided. On august 6th 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima‚ Japan. Three days later‚ they dropped a second one on another Japanese city‚ Nagasaki. Those two bombs were first and only atomic weapons ever used in actual combat. Until atomic bombs were reported in “The New York Times”‚ most American citizens had never heard of atomic bombs. Ordinary

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    pilots which were basically suicide bombers. This showed the United States that when backed into a corner the Japanese were going to fight back with everything they had. It was estimated that invading Japan with a normal attack would cost 1.2 million casualties (Source #2‚ see annotation). This was one of the most prevalent factors in President Truman’s decision to authorize the use of the atomic bomb. The other leading influence on the atomic bomb’s justification was the Japanese

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    Atomic Bomb Hypothesis

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    The alternative hypotheses in this case is dropping an atomic bomb against your enemies will end war and save lives. The null hypothesis was ending war and saving lives had nothing to do with the reason why the atomic bomb was dropped. It was dropped on the sole propose of showing the world that it would be willing to use nuclear weapons against its enemies. Finding the data on how many times we used bombs on enemies and non-enemies can test both hypotheses. After that we will take a look at the

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    Atomic Bomb Scenarios

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    News Broadcast- News Reporter: Sorry for the interruption. We have breaking news pertaining to the Cold War. The Soviets have developed an Atomic Bomb. Now the Soviets being our enemies could drop the bomb at any time. So you viewers out there need to be prepared. We are now going to show you three scenarios in how to protect yourself against an Atomic Bombing. Scenario 1 (screens shift from News broadcast to Person cooking in kitchen) Raianne voice over: Scenario 1. You’re preparing

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    dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan is significant in many ways as it was a start of a new age of warfare. The dropping started a long journey into accepting that the world was going to advance technology. The dropping of the bomb made countries fear each other but it also stopped world war two. The impact of the atomic bomb on Japan is a reason why the bomb was significant because they were the trial run. The atomic bomb was powerful and caused suffering to thousands of people. The first bomb (which was

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    The Atomic Bomb: Effects on Hiroshima and Mankind The nuclear bomb was the most devastating weapon ever created by man. It was developed between 1942 and 1945 during the second World War. The project to build the worlds first atomic weapon was called The Manhattan Project. The nuclear bomb was based on the idea of splitting an atom to create energy‚ this is called fission. Three bombs were created‚ "Trinity"‚ "Little Boy"‚ and "Fat Man". "Trinity" was dropped on a test site in New Mexico on July

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    The Atomic Bomb Epidemic

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    All Were there any injury phases on the people who survived the Atomic Bomb horrific? The injury phases on the people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki who survived The Atomic Bomb were horrific because most people were instantly vaporized or had the high risk of Cancers‚Blood Disorders‚ and Tumors. There were also risks of being badly burnt and having skin injuries that caused life long disorders to the body. The Atomic Bomb was so powerful that it caused more than 7 decades of death and agony to the people

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    One reason Truman made the right decision of dropping the bomb was because Japan was resistant to give up the fight. In all honesty‚ we tried. We sent them a warning but‚ according to Henry L. Stimson‚ Secretary of War “Suzuki rejected the Potsdam Ultimatum by announcing it was “unworthy of public notice”” (Stimson 49). The warning was used to warn Japan the consequences if they did not surrender. To our dismay‚ they rejected showing they were unwilling to stop fighting despite the warning we gave

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