The Pros And Cons Of The Atomic Bomb

The ethical debate over if the decision to drop the atomic bomb was necessary will most likely never be resolved. As of today the United States becomes the first and only nation to use an atomic weaponry during war time. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japanese territory, first an American bomber Enola Gay dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 following the atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Through the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in Japan, it marked the end of World War II killing thousands of innocent people. Many historians now believe that the cause of this also ignited the Cold War.

President Harry S. Truman had been warned by advisors that any attempt made to Japan would result of horrific American casualties.

Truman was already set for the creation of a weapon that could bring the war to an immediate end. When Truman found out of the success of the Manhattan Project, he knew he would be facing a decision of an unknown gravity. The capacity to end the furious war was on his hands, but it would need to involve unleashing the most appealing weapon ever known in history. American and civilians were exhausted from fighting four years of war, but the Japanese military were refusing to give up the fight any time soon.
The decision of why it shouldn't had been dropped is still unsettled because of the fact that there were many other methods that could have been used other than dropping the atomic bomb.

Critics have charged against that Truman’s decision was a very cruel act that eventually brought negative long term consequences to the United States. Even, some military analysts insisted that Japan was on its knees and the bombing was unnecessary. Many have said that the reason why the atomic bomb wasn’t a fair deal was because the atomic bomb had been basically made as a defensive weapon not to be an offensive one. Also, opponents of Truman’s decision over dropping the atomic bomb argued that racism had been played due to the fact that if the bomb had been ready on time it would had not been used against Germany territory. Americans mocked and criticised the Japanese race. Even though, Americans didn’t like Mussolini, Hitler, and Nazis they hated the Japanese more. While, it is easy to see that extreme racism toward the Japanese existed, it is much more difficult to assess the role rasim may have been played in President Truman’s decision. However, there is many occasions in the historical record where the president does refer to the Japanese in

questionable.
Many have also stated that their was a few alternatives that could have also been chosen instead of using a destruction weapon.

One alternative might have been to arrange a demonstration of the bomb. If representatives of the Japanese government, military and its scientific community could have seen the bomb, it might have been enough to convince them of the foolishness of continued resistance. Had the atomic bomb not worked the United States would have looked weak and foolish. Also, if America was trying to show that they had more power they should have at least dropped it in less populated area still showing what the bomb could do instead of killing more than 200,000 innocent lives. The people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not criminals they were not guilty of what was going on. Their was many diplomatic options available that could have changed this action. Like for 9/11 their was many Americans killed and all of a sudden it became World Tower Day. The nukes were a hundreds of times worser than those of 9/11. Everyone was innocent so why was it okay to kill hundreds of people in Japan there's really no

difference.
On the other hand, some state that it was the right thing to do. They eventually only had two options to end the war with Japan which was to invade Japan which was called Operation Downfall. The predicted casualties for American troops when up to 500,00 dead and twice the number wounded. Japanese casualties were 5 to 10 million deaths with a very high number of wounded and would have been the most bloodiest action to make. The other option was to drop the atomic bombs which was what was decided this bombing eventually only killed about 400,000 people. Compared to the the predicted casualties of an invasion, this was lower. It also ended up saving more lives than it killed. Also the atomic bombs were not such thing as illegal at that time, nor was it bombing enemy cities. World War II was a fair war and all sides bombed each other’s civilians in their cities. You can't say it was the wrong thing to do because it saved many lives and they were both killing innocent people. Only the atomic bomb was more powerful and had killed them in matter of seconds. The Japanese had been also given a fair warning before Truman decided to drop the bomb and they still didn’t surrender. Even, after the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki it wasn’t until a few days later. They had been given enough opportunity to surrender and they had chose not to.
However in spite of all this Japanese is now in friendly terms with the United States both politically and socially. In reality this is eventually not weak, nor is it unusual to show forgiveness and kindness towards those who once wronged you, especially during the course of generations.