t destructive weapons of war used in combat. It ended the
seconed World War. However, the bomb's used turned out to be a big
controversy. President Harry Truman had many good reasons of dropping
such a deadly bomb, but some people thought we shouldn't have ended the
war like we did.
President Truman decided to put many years of nuclear warfare research to
use when he choose to use the new weapon. The atomic bomb was built as
a weapon of war, the purpose of it was for a military weapon. America was
at war and congress had allowed spending two billion dollars on the
project. If the United States did not use the weapon, an asset, as well as a
lot money, would have been wasted.
Another reason Truman decided to use the atomic bomb was to end such a
horrific war quickly and without the loss of many american lives. Many
people did die as a result of the atomic bomb, but the amount saved if far
more greater. Truman new if he decided to go on with traditional war with
Japan, the amount of americans dead would be tremendous. President
Truman decided that he would spare the lives of many americans by using
the atomic bomb at cost of some of the enemy's civilians.
The Japanesse attack on Pearl Harbor brought us into a war which we had
vainly hoped to avoid. We could no longer do nothing but were compelled t
do something to roll back the Japenesse militariasts. Our natural right of self
defense as well as our moral duty to defeat justified Truman's decision to
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