This report is to discuss the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. Many people believe that this was the only way to get Emperor Hirohito of Japan to surrender to the United States. Some believe that there were other reasons for dropping the bombs. A couple of those reasons were for revenge on Pearl Harbor and to show the world that we had the power to destroy any country that wanted to intrude on the United States. One of the main reasons though, was to save hundreds of thousands of Americans lives and to possibly save lives of many Japanese.
Some veterans of the war were asked about the issue, they quoted "I thank God that those atomic bombs were dropped. I wouldn't be here if they hadn't." "The dropping of the bombs saved the liv
Dropping the bombs without warning was the best way to end the war. In my opinion that is the main objective of a war. You try to defeat your enemy while saving as many lives as possible. The Japanese would kill themselves before being taken hostage from the Americans. Also, we could not afford to spend millions of dollars on making such massive bombs and then not use them for that reason.
"We felt little pity or concern for the Japanese then, and we thought the bomb was a wonderful thing to bring the war to an end." "I would have been glad to drop the bombs myself."
I believe that Truman made the right choice by deciding to drop the bombs to end the war. Although the bomb took so many lives, it saved many American lives too, and at that time it was the only quickest and easiest way to end th
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