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A 5 page paper that argues the point that President Harry S. Truman was presented with a number of alternatives other than the bombing of Hiroshima in bringing about the end of World War II. These alternatives are discussed, with the focus being placed on Truman's failure to clarify the terms of the Potsdam Proclamation in May of 1945. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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informed him that the decision he had made to bring an end to the Second War World had been executed over Japan the previous day and deemed to be a
"complete success" (Chapter 11 288). Many of those around Truman did not agree that it was historys greatest thing, as did many of those around the world. If
given the chance, the 80,000 Japanese civilians that died in Hiroshima on the morning of August 5, 1945 as a result of this decision would also not have agreed on
the greatness of this thing (278). Nor would have the 100,000 Japanese citizens that were to eventually become victims in the aftermath of this decision (278). Nor do
I over a half-century later, for I believe that there were alternative routes to ending the war and that the route that was taken was chosen for all the wrong
reasons. When the decision was made to drop Americas top-secret defensive weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the European conflict, and Hitlers regime, had already come to an end.
When Hitler rose to power in 1933, German scientists had made great strides in atomic research and were on the verge of perfecting what we now know as the
atomic bomb. Fearful of the world devastation that could result from their creation in the hands of such a tyrannical leader, many scientists left Germany and fled to other
countries, the United States among them (Chapter 11 280). At Americas entrance to World War II in 1941, President Roosevelt took the advice of noted scientist Albert Einstein and
backed the top-secret atomic research being conducted in America by a number of these German scientists as well as a team of experts from the U.S. and Great Britain.
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