Back to category: Politics

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.

End War, Save Lives

Who can determine whether the drop of Atom Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a necessary or an unnecessary act? Decades have passed, but the controversy between two sides of the argument still arises in today society. But what would have happened had the A-bomb not been used? The most obvious thing is that the war would have continued. It was the atomic bomb that forces Japan to surrender and in turn saved thousands if not millions of lives. Without it, the number of men that would have died on both sides far surpasses that of the number that were killed in the droppings of both Atomic Bombs. The Atomic Bomb cut loses to a minimum and drew war to an end quickly. It was a military necessity.
To understand the decision of the atomic bomb usage, it is necessary to examine the circumstances and the options as Truman saw them in the summer of 1945. Between 1941 and 1945, World War II cost more than one million US casualties. When Truman became President in April 1945, US casualt...

Posted by: Andres Cisneros

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.