President Truman faced a hugely difficult decision when he had to make the choice of whether or not to drop two atomic bombs over Japan. After much thought and consideration on his part, he came to the conclusion that the bombs would be dropped. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the chosen places, two residential and productive areas of Japan where several innocent civilians lived. Although that may have seemed like the only way to end the war quickly, there could have been another less destructive, rational, and morally right way to do so than dropping the two atomic bombs over those areas. The question shouldn't be "Did President Truman make the right decision in having the two atomic bombs dropped?" because that is something only he can find the correct answer to. So instead, the question should be: "Can th
e dropping of the two atomic bombs, including the destruction of large productive areas and over a hundred thousand innocent lives of civilians be justified?"
Dropping the bombs over lifeless areas or even maybe over other war prepared sites may have been acceptable. At least with bombing other warfare sites people may have still died but it would have been those involved in the war, rather than
The war may have seemed like it was never going to end but using atomic bombs were measures taken that were too drastic and taken in too short of a time period. Other options less destructive could have been possibilities to help end the war. The Japanese would have eventually surrendered without the destruction of so many of their people and they should have been given more of a chance to do so.
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