Hiroshima Bombing Research Paper

Discuss the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945. In your opinion, was this decision justified? How did the dropping of the atomic bombs contribute to the global Cold War from 1945-1990?

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HST 106: Research Paper; Topic One
Gregory French
2017

In August of 1945, both main two atomic bombs utilized as a part of fighting were dropped on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. These two bombs molded a significant part of the world that we live in and know today.
The United States started a nuclear bomb program called the "Manhattan Project" in the year of 1941. The "Manhattan Project’s" was to research and fabricate a nuclear bomb before Germany

Two of which, "Little Boy" and "Fat Man," wound up being dropped on Japan. "Little Boy," the only uranium bomb made was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. "Fat Man," the second atomic bomb created for the sole purpose of war, exploded above Nagasaki on August 11, 1945. The leaders of the United States chose that dropping the recently created nuclear bombs on Japan was the most astute move they could make at the time, given the present circumstance that the United States and the world was in. Dropping the bombs on Japan was chiefly propelled by the conviction that human lives could be spared. A large-scale attack of the Japanese territory was the other alternative if no bombs were to have been dropped. Considering that the Japanese army, which was taught to take advantage of their guerilla tactic suited territory, as compared to the mechanical methods for the U.S.’s tactics put estimated number of American casualties well over the casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki joined together

The public did not know for sure if the bombs saved lives. At the time, dropping “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” was the only other option for ending the war other than the full out invasion of Japan. Japan’s large central army and unfavorable terrain put American deaths at 250,000 and American casualties over one million. The loss of Japanese life in an invasion would be overwhelming. In previous battles, the Japanese had lost as many as eleven times as many men as the United States. The public also wondered if the bombs had shortened the war. To have forced the Japanese emperor to surrender through invasion, allied forces would have to have occupied most of the Japanese mainland. After the invasion, Japanese troops throughout China, Korea, and the Philippines would be more likely to continue fighting because their surrender would have been forced, whereas the surrender after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was much more of a decision on the part of the Japanese emperor. Finding and eliminating these Japanese forces would have taken many years and cost many