Justification of the Atomic Bomb
Thesis Statement
The United States was justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Japan because if we had not dropped the bombs, we would have had to invade mainland Japan, which would have caused an incredible amount of deaths among American soldiers, Japanese soldiers and Japanese civilians that could have easily exceeded the toll at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese were ruthless and brutal when it came to their militaristic decisions and motives. Dropping the atomic bomb was our final hope in stopping them from performing further harm. Either way, lives were going to be taken. The question we must ask ourselves is whether we wanted those lives to be those of Americans or the Japanese. President Truman had to make a vital decision, and using nuclear warfare was the only way to stop Japan without killing American soldiers. Furthermore, the use of the atomic bomb convinced the world of its horror and prevented future use when nuclear weapons became more accessible, it also displayed our military might to other threatening and powerful countries.
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Thesis Statement
The United States was justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Japan because if we had not dropped the bombs, we would have had to invade mainland Japan, which would have caused an incredible amount of deaths among American soldiers, Japanese soldiers and Japanese civilians that could have easily exceeded the toll at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese were ruthless and brutal when it came to their militaristic decisions and motives. Dropping the atomic bomb was our final hope in stopping them from performing further harm. Either way, lives were going to be taken. The question we must ask ourselves is whether we wanted those lives to be those of Americans or the Japanese. President Truman had to make a vital decision, and using nuclear warfare was the only way to stop Japan without killing American soldiers. Furthermore, the use of the atomic bomb convinced the world of its horror and prevented future use when nuclear weapons became more accessible, it also displayed our military might to other threatening and powerful countries.
The United States was justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Japan because if we had not dropped the bombs, we would have had to invade mainland Japan, which would have caused an incredible amount of deaths among American soldiers, Japanese soldiers and Japanese civilians that could have easily exceeded the toll at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese were ruthless and brutal when it came to their militaristic decisions and motives. Dropping the atomic bomb was our final hope in stopping them from performing further harm. Either way, lives were going to be taken. The question we must ask ourselves is whether we wanted those lives to be those of Americans or the Japanese. President Truman had to make a vital decision, and using nuclear warfare was the only way to stop Japan without killing American soldiers. Furthermore, the use of the atomic bomb convinced the world of its horror and prevented future use when nuclear weapons became more accessible, it also displayed our military might to other threatening and powerful countries.
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