WW2 Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
If anyone that lived during World War 2 was asked how the war ended, their response would surely be the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There was only one sure way to end the war with Japan, and one option, by unleashing an unknown fury known as the atom bomb. And it is safe to say that this had worked because no more than a month after Japan was bombed, they surrendered. No other method of ending the war could have been as successful as the bombing, and president Harry Truman knew that. There was no convincing to be done, and an invasion would have been useless and would have killed more than lost with the bombings because the war surely would have reached a peak in battling, and would have lengthened the course of the war without a doubt. Clearly, the atom bomb's unmatched power was what had to be done. How can anyone come to the conclusion that the dropping of the bombs was a travesty, and killed lives that didn't need to be killed. Japan lost almost two million people during the war, and yes one tenth of the deaths were civilian, and as a result of the bombings. But this was war, and the United States had to make the point that they were on the upper hand in the war, and that any further
As far as an impact on the present time while the bombing went on, it was a way of nonverbally declaring to the world that the United States was the number one power, and that any future attempt for war against the great nation would be a waste of time. And ultimately the bomb was a window to ending the war short-term and did what it was intended to do. Not one more battle was fought, not one more life was wasted after the surrender of Japan as a result of the bombings. It could have been a few more years of fighting if and invasion would have started. Or a simple "no" for a response after a suggestion for a surrender of Japan by the United States could have sparked further hatred and will to fight. If the current world was to be preserved in peace, the two atom bombs were a great choice. As of now the term "World War 3" doesn't exist among historians, and will not. The American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended all of the major wars. Japan had quickly learned to put the bombings behind them and continue to function as a country. With the knowledge that defeat was imminent, Japan surrendered t the US and has continued to be with the United States the most economically stable and technologically advanced countries in the world. History must be learned so that past events must not happen again, and that understanding must come from past events. The bombing of Japan was the only time in which any country has used a weapon of that great of power, and hasn't been used since. Not on one occasion since then has any situation arisen in which a bombing would settle world affairs. But it was acceptable in that case because the use of the bomb was worth the loss that came from it, and didn't fail in ending the war against Japan. Stopping a second world war after the first was impossible because a weapon of such quality was never invented yet. But since the infamous day that Ameri
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