Ever since the historical event occurred on August 6 of 1945, when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on a city, people have asked why. There are different explanations of why the bomb was dropped from historians, from the individuals who made the decision to drop the bomb, and from general populations alike. The atomic bomb was dropped to make the rest of the world aware, especially the Soviet Union, of the United States' supremacy. Also little boy and fat man, the names of the two bombs dropped, were dropped because they were there; a new bomb that was never before field tested. The unawareness that the decision makers had of the real effects and magnitude of the bomb also played a role in the fact that the bomb was dropped.

A war in Europe had just ended and the one in the Pacific was coming to its end, but who would come out as the country that would be able to practically mold the world to their own liking? Both the United States and the Soviet Union would have a great amount of power, the only question is which would have more, and the answer would be the United States and this was because of the atomic bomb. Truman was the president and had two other men standing b

The decision makers were ignorant about the true power of the bomb, and this clouded the decision to drop the bomb itself. If they did not really know what this bomb could do then how could they be able to make the judgment on whether or not to drop the bomb? The final word to drop the bomb came from President Truman, and of course he was advised on the topic by people like Byrns, but it was still his final decision and he was in favor of dropping the bomb. Before Hiroshima or Nagasaki had even occurred he had written in his journal that he did not want any, "women or children," to die with the use of the bomb. He obviously did not know of the complete strength of the bomb, statements like these prove that. If the top decision maker did not truthfully know of what would happen with the use of the bomb then it is also possible that the other key members, who finally came to the conclusion that dropping the bomb was the correct decision, may have not known of its power either. Being naive about the effects of the bomb is another reason it was dropped, knowing how harmful the bomb would be and how destructive it was may have had a great effect on the usage of the atomic bomb.

The fact that this bomb was new and the most powerful in the world's history was another reason why it was dropped. If one were to give a small child the best, brand new toy available one could not expect the child to not want to play with it; this is the same concept. The United States h

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