Why President Truman Decided to Drop Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Naga

Why Pre spotnt Truman Decided to Drop Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki At 0245 August 6th 1945, the B-29 Superfortress the Enola Gay took off from the oddly lengthened North Field on the Island of Tinian in the Marianas. The plane piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets was 7 tons. At 0815 hours the bomb doors of the B-29 opened and flying at approximately 32,000 ft the uranium based atom bomb code-named olive-sized Boy was unleashed upon the city of Hiroshima. Over 70,000 men women and children were killed by blast alone. And everyplace the next half century approximately another 40,000 would die from related illnesses. With this 70,000 were wounded at Hiroshima. The co-pilot of the Enola Gay could see, smoke and ack-ack guns creeping up the side of the mountain. Then again on August 9th a sulphur holocaust was unleashed on Nagasaki. a giant ball of fire uprise as though from the bowels and a giant pillar of purple fireshooting sky struggled and with en ormous speed The effects of the bomb present were much less spectacular than at Hiroshima. There were only 80,000 initial casualties of which 40,000 were dead. Japan surrendered to the allied forces on August 14th, 1945. Emperor Hirohito made the declaration to a stunned nation, I can not endure the melodic theme of letting my people suffer any longer. A continuation of the war would bring death to tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of persons, the whole nation would be decrease to ashes. Who had ordered this barbaric act, and for what purpose? To find the answer we examine the military situation surrounding the final stages of the war on Japan, Americas diplomatic controversy with Russia, the need to app... ...ium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The USSR still held onto large areas of Eastern europium and forced communism onto the held territories. The bombing showed the Russians what incredible power the new gun had. If the USSR were to keep up the balance with America then they too moldiness have one. This set the scene for the nuclear arms race among the US and the USSR, it was democracy against communism, an iron curtain descended across Europe and already the Cold War had begun. If the Cold War prevented a more constituted war between the two superpowers then the fact that they both had weapons of throng destruction acted as each others deterrent. And so if this is the case then the delectation of the bomb although unknown at the succession has been justified, as it is the only time that a weapon of its kind has ever been used in anger.