DROPPING OF ATOMIC BOMBS

DROPPING OF ATOMIC BOMBS President Truman faced a hugely difficult decision when he had to make the choice of whether or not to drop two atomic bombs over Japan. After much thought and consideration on his part, he came to the conclusion that the bombs would be dropped. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the chosen places, two residential and productive areas of Japan where several innocent civilians lived. Although that may have seemed like the only …

…of so many of their people and they should have been given more of a chance to do so. Overall, the use of atomic bombs on a very populated and full of life area cannot be justified. Being wrong and immoral, other measures to end the war would have been more reasonable and humane. Although the lives of some Americans were, the bombs killed too many other people and things for it to be justified.