Most of the American people will say that yes, it was necessary. American soldiers were dying. The Japanese soldiers were fanatics, happily giving their lives for their country. The atomic bomb provided a quick and easy solution to a complex problem. The alternative was to initiate a full scale invasion of Japan, which would have cost more lives than we, as a nation, were willing to spend.

Now, however, a recent U.S. intelligence study declares just the opposite. The study claims that the dropping of the bomb was entirely unnecessary, and that President Truman knew this. Japan was on its last legs. All it would take was a little push and Japan would capitulate. The study says

In addition, Truman did not want to be dependent on Stalin and his armies. If he could win the war without Stalin's help, he would. After all, we are the United States of America. Since the time of President Theodore Roosevelt we've had an exaggerated sense of self-importance and of our role in world affairs. We have this awesome power and we should use it. In any event, if we didn't someone else surely would. A multitude of other nations was staying up late at night trying to develop the technology as well.

There are those who will say that the war was already finished, that Japan had mailed in their surrender and that dropping the bomb was like using a sledgehammer to kill an ant. On the contrary, by dropping the bomb we secured an American victory without the

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