In Early August 1945 Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped On The Japanese Cities Of Hir

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Term Paper Title	In Early August 1945 Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped On The Japanese Cities Of Hir
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In early August 1945 two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly brought about the surrender of Japan and the end
of American involvement in World War II. By 1946, the two bombs caused the death of
approxamately 240,000 Japanese citizens. The traditional view that dominated the 1950s
and 60s, created by President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson-- was
that the dropping of the atomic bombs was a military action that avoided the loss of
hundreds of thousands of lives in the upcoming invasion of the island of Kyushu. In the
1960s a second view developed, put forth by some historians, that claimed the dropping of
the bomb was an intimating manuever aimed at gaining the upper hand in Cold War with
Russia. Today, fifty years after the two bombings, with the advantage of historical
hindsight and the advantage of new evidence, a third view, free of obscuring bias and
passion, can be presented. First, the dropping of the bomb was born out a complex myriad
of military, domestic and diplomatic pressures and concerns. Second, many potentially
viable alternatives to dropping the bombs were not explored by Truman and other men in
power, as they probably should have been. Lastly, because these alternatives were never
explored, we can only conjecture over whether or not Truman's decision to drop atomic
bombs was a savior of lives, and by extension, we may never know if Truman's
monumental decision was a morally just one.

Under the guidance of President Roosevelt, a top-secret effort between America and the
United Kingdom was begun. It was to build an atomic bomb that could be used against
Germany. Run by General Leslie R. Groves at Los Alamos, New Mexico, this program
was fully known only to a few scientists and politicians. Truman learned of the project,
then called by its code name S-1, or the Manhattan Project from Secretary of War Stimson
after becoming president.
August 6th, 1945 the American B-29 bomber, named Enola Gay by the pilot Paul W.
Tibbets, dropped the "little boy" uranium atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Three
days later a second bomb, made of plutonium and nicknamed "fat boy," was dropped on
the city of Nagasaki. On August 14th, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally and the
war in Asia ended.
Truman's decision to drop these bombs came from the complex background discussed
above. Pressure to drop the bomb came from three major categories: military, domestic
and diploma...

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