Atomic Bomb Dbq

The use of the bomb prevented what it would have been chaos. Even though the war in Europe had ended, the war over the Pacific was still going which it all started when Japan decided to attack the U.S. at Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. With it they had the U.S. declared war on them, at first the Japanese show strong but after a long of time, the U.S. was able to get a strong army and navy and so they were able to fight back, finally the U.S. had the Japanese only with their mainland. But the Japanese were not thinking of surrendering, they were still going to fight back with everything this made the U.S. get to the conclusion of dropping the nuclear bombs along with the facts that it would conclude in less casualties, the fear of the Soviet

Truman didn’t want that and the nuclear bomb provided less casualties for both sides. And we can even prove it with the statement that Maurice Isserman made where he says the following “This time bombing did all that the Air Force generals said it would. Japan surrendered without a single American infantryman having to die.” (World War ll: America at war, pag. 165). This statement shows that the U.S. used the atomic bombs because they didn’t want to lose any more men, and obviously, not only Truman was in favor of that decision. It also supports it because by not losing any men, it basically meant that it was the easiest way possible, for the U.S., to make Japan surrender. We can also see that Isserman it’s not the only one with that idea, just as it’s mentioned in the New grolier encyclopedia “The atomic bomb offered an alternative to putting American lives to risk.” (New grolier encyclopedia of World War ll: Victory in Japan, pag. 123). Here we can see that the atomic bomb was used by the U.S. because it offered another option that it made life easier for everyone, mostly everyone, then why not take the chance and saved the lives of a lot of people. And it didn’t only meant that but it also meant that in the long term everyone would be grateful with that decision, and they would not be criticizing the government for the use of the bombs being a bad

to use the nuclear bomb was the factor that they had spend a lot of money on that project, and by not using it it would had seen as if it was a waste of money. And we can notice this in a text of “The Americans” where it says the following: “Some people feared that if the bomb were not dropped, the project might been seen as a gigantic waste of money.”(The Americans). This allow us to understand that the U.S. had to use the bomb to make all the money they spend on it, worth. And also to not let that project affected them badly in the economy. We can even get deeper in the topic by seeing that Joseph H. Paulin says that if the bomb had not been used the military and the administration would have to explain why did the government spent two billion dollars of taxes on research (America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb). This demonstrates that the government didn’t want to felt pression of the American people, which finally make them do that decision. Not only that but Americans would also see the project as a good way of spending the money they paid for taxes, leaving the government of the U.S. as good with its citizens. So, today we can understand that the use of the bomb was also affected by social factors, such as the public eye after the war, and that they would had been criticized for not doing use of the bomb, telling then that it would had all been a waste of