In August 1945 Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Why did the U S
On the 6th of August the world was both shocked and amazed as the Americans dropped the most powerful bomb that had ever existed on the city of Hiroshima. ... There were many reasons for Harry S Truman, President of the US, to make this huge decision. ... Truman hoped that the Atomic Bomb would end the War more without needing to invade Japan with troops. ... The crimes were such that one of the prisoners of war who survived said ‘My only regret is that we didn’t drop 10 Atomic bombs’. ... When Harry S Truman became the President of the United States of America he promised that he would win the war and make the Japanese surrender unconditionally. ... However by August 1945 the American and ambassadors had come to a standstill over negotiations. ... Truman saw the Atomic Bomb as ‘the greatest thing in history’ and thought that it would obtain his goal. Another reason for the dropping of the Atomic Bomb was to actually show the American public what they had done with the $2 billion that the Manhattan Project had cost them. ... No one was sure what the true extent of the bomb’s power was, there had been testing in the American desert but never on people. Hiroshima was actually chosen because they wanted to see the effects on a complete city. ... The Soviets had agreed to join the War in the Pacific in August and thus the Americans wanted to end the War before then. ... There are many reasons for the dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as shown. ... The dropping of the bomb was a very important decision, which explains why there were so many factors, and Truman thought from when he made the decision until his death that he had made the right choice, because he saved so many lives.