Harry S. Truman assumed the presidency on April 12, 1945 when America was already in war with Japan. United States and Japan were under peaceful negotiations when suddenly on December 7, 1941, a date, (which will live in infany that the United States) of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

President Truman's announcement of "Dropping of an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima" marked an important point in the history of the United States as well as the whole world. The President's address to the nation was given on August 6th, sixteen hours later, when an American plane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. The bomb destroyed over four square miles of the city, killing or injuring more than 135,000 people. (Goodman, Philip).

In the early 1940s, Japan had expansionist aims in Eastern Asia, Indo China and the Western Pacific. In July of 1940, the United States placed an embargo on materials exported to Japan, including oil, in the hope of curbing Japanese expansionism. Ame

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its after-effects were to avoid alienation of his supporters. Had he mentioned about the injuries, deaths, mass destruction of the cities that the bomb caused and after-effects like the radioactivity would be causing later, there definitely would have been wide spread protests in the nation. Even political fallout could have been expected. His effective, intelligent speech was able to deviate people's mind from the ruthlessness that the weapon had caused. And also was successful enough to get into people's mind about the justification of using the bomb. The war would have gone forever, killing might be many times the number of people killed and injured in Japan had he not ordered for dropping the bomb.

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