The Use of the Atomic Bomb

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This paper traces the events leading up the United States' decision to use the atomic bomb on Japanese islands in 1945, thus ending the Second World War. The author considers what he would have done in event that he had to make the decision of dropping the bomb.

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"As history has later revealed, the death toll from the atomic weapons unleashed on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki totaled over 100,000 in the initial blast alone. The figures are of course uncertain as all census data was obliterated in the explosions. However it is estimated that, counting all later damages from cancer and radiation exposure, by 1976, over one million Japanese citizens had been killed by the use of the atomic bomb. (Damages)"

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