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The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan by Wilson D. Miscamble C.S.C.

The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan Wilson D. Miscamble C.S.C. ebook
ISBN: 052173536X, 9780521735360
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: pdf
Page: 190

The American decision to use the two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II has come in for feverish debate in the years following the incident. One of the most scholarly, yet controversial works on Truman's decisionto use the bomb has been from Gar Alperovitz. What function did they play in Japan's surrender? It focuses on President Harry S. This e-book asks and answers a quantity of essential questions. But with Truman vehemently against the atomic bomb and the Soviet invasion of Japan imminent, the United States had no choice but to go forward with the plans for Operation Olympic. In both cities, most of the casualties were civilians. Surely, for an action of such great magnitude and far-reachingconsequences, political factors were the most important considerationfor president Truman. Truman, who was unaware of the Manhattan Project until Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death, made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. The intentional killing of civilians by the Allies of World War II—who claimed that their cause was just—raised moral questions about the just course of the war, as had the Bombing of Dresden, Germany. Why had been the atomic bombs employed against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945? This book explores the American use of atomic bombs and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. With the war for mainland Japan consuming most of American manpower, Truman failed to prevent Turkey, Iran, Greece, Italy and Korea from falling into the communist camp. -”The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”. The Most Controversial Decision - Wilson D.