left its runway carrying a massive weapon that would soon be

responsible for killing 80,000 men, women and children in

Japan. The destructive force, which wiped out many lives and

the entire city of Hiroshima, was the first actual use of a

weapon at the time unheard of by the world, the atomic bomb.

Many questions must be considered to determine whether the

use of atomic power was necessary to distinguish the war,

and if so, was the result of bombing Hiroshima enough? Was

it really necessary to bomb Nagasaki, or was the United

States trying to prove a disturbing and powerful point?

To answer that first we must look at was going on in the

world at the time of the conflict. The U.S. had been

fighting a wars with areas throughout Europe and Asia.

Morale was most likely low, and resources were at the same

level as morale. Obviously the best thing that could have

possibly happened would have been to bring the war to a

quick end with a minimum of allied casualties. The Pottsdam

Conference was around the time of the end of the first war.

Several of the Pacific islands were lost such as China,

Berma, Thailand and Manchua. Harry Truman's decision to drop

I will use Butlow to reveal evidence of Japan's

decision for nuclear weapons, when it came, based on two

American invasion despite a blockade. This meant that if the

warfare, which incorporated the use of suicidal pilots in

very long. Had a blockade been attempted, any remaining food

then had to deal with multiplied his burdens.1 Truman had

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Japan was so "desperately vulnerable" to attack on her

measure being destroyed twice over, once by cutting off

tremendous damage to Japanese cities. No matter how much the

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