The Atomic Bomb Argumentative Essay

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Seventy years ago Francis McMahon was on a ship headed for Japan when he heard news that Japan finally surrendered. He was so relieved that he actually cried. He had only heard horror stories about war and was truly terrified. He was grateful for the atomic bombs that helped end the war quickly. He was glad to call himself a patriot when he found out it was the United States who dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. It wasn’t until years later that it really sunk in how many people really died from those bombs. The atomic bombings of August 6th and 9th, 1945 were necessary and unnecessary for many reasons. Showing world dominance, the sacrificing of hundreds of thousands of civilian lives, and supposedly saving half a million American military lives are just a few reasons that are still questioned today. It was commonly known by the United States leaders that Germans were working on bringing atomic energy into the war (Truman). Great Britain and the United States quickly joined the race for who would figure out atomic energy and use it in the …show more content…
According to the Secretary of War Henry Stimson, “I felt that to extract a genuine surrender from the Emperor and his military advisers, they must be administered a tremendous shock which would carry convincing proof of our power to destroy the Empire. Such an effective shock would save many times the number of lives, both American and Japanese, that it would cast.” It was estimated that the Japanese Army had about five million men, and there was no indication of them weakening in their determination to fight (Stimson). Even if the Emperor had officially surrendered the military would have continued fighting for her country. The United States was to invade Japan on November 1, 1945, and it was thought that the fighting would last until late 1946. It was estimated that the United States alone would lose over a million lives
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