Truman and the Bomb

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In this essay, the writer discusses the main reasons that President Truman chose to bomb Japan and why it was the right decision. Bombing Japan kept more lives from being lost while motivating Japan to surrender without more violence by having to invade. All these ideas are considered in the essay and the writer also concludes with a summary of all the points presented.

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"It is difficult to use the knowledge and skills that Americans have today to judge Truman's actions that took place in 1945. It is equally difficult, however, to look at both sides of this argument and find a right and wrong when so many decades have passed. The main reasons that Japan was bombed was due to politics and inabilities to reason with other countries. The American death toll and Japan's negative attitude towards us added to the decision by Truman to use the bomb. The war needed to come to an end, and Truman thought this might be the only way to prove our strength and leadership in the world while keeping casualties to a minimum. He new that negotiations were not all that possible, but forced negotiations were better than none at all."

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