The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

[Webster]

Hoping to prevent the need for the invasion of mainland Japan, known as Operation Downfall, President Truman orders the use of a new, fearsome weapon that will change warfare forever. The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are in grave danger.

 

[Webster]

The dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have traditionally been held to be the cause of the end of the Second World War in the Pacific, with the justification that the surrender of Japan saved more lives in the long term than the bombs themselves cost. In this video we take a look at the academic debate for and against the use of the bomb, and whether it was in fact the deciding factor in the Japanese surrender.

 

[MrDawn]

I'm in agreement with Truman. It needed to be done.

That would have been a long and drawn war full of casualties and America simply didn't have the resources for another dog fight back when WW2 was in its death throes.