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This 15 page paper explores the reasons given—and the real reason—why the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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weapons have been used in warfare. The reasons usually given for destroying these cities-which were primarily civilian targets-is that the attack would demoralize the Japanese and cause them to
surrender, thus obviating the necessity for an American invasion of the Japanese homeland, which would cost many thousands of lives, both American and Japanese. However, scholarship shows that many
high ranking military leaders were convinced that Japan was already seeking peace before the attack, and that dropping the bombs was unnecessary. Furthermore, President Truman knew that Japan was
ready to surrender. Why then did he still order the attack? The answer appears to be that it was politically expedient to do so; Russia was about to
enter the war, and Truman felt that dropping the bomb would show the Russians the strength of American arms and keep them from attempting to influence post-war developments in Asia.
It was, in effect, the opening action of the Cold War. Introduction Nuclear weapons have been used in war only twice: when the U.S.
bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. The irony of the country that claims to love peace and justice using weapons of mass destruction to annihilate civilians is not
lost on the world, and is one of the reasons why the attacks remain controversial to this day. This paper explores the reasons given-and the real reason-why the U.S.
dropped atomic bombs on Japan. The Historical Context Officially, the reason the U.S. military dropped the atomic bomb on Japan during World War II was to force the Japanese
surrender (Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 2005). The bombs were dropped on August 6 and August 9, 1945; with the result that over 120,000 people, approximately 95% of
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