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It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan.

military officer throughout the Second World War—thought the atomic bombing was unnecessary: Truman claimed the atomic bombing was “the greatest thing in history” and “saved millions of lives” (qtd. Although many questions are involved, the debate almost inevitably comes down to this question: was it necessary?Īrguments over the bombing often appeal to statements from U.S.

Debates over the atomic bombing are waged with more ferocity and contempt than debates over almost any other historical topic. The controversy over the event is commensurate with its significance. For this reason, a survey of prominent journalists ranked the bombing as the most important event of the twentieth century (Walker 2005, 311). Since the bombing, the specter of nuclear war has haunted humanity. The atomic bombing was a watershed in history. government killed over two hundred thousand Japanese with atomic weapons. Over the following decades, thousands more died from medical complications caused by the atomic bombing. government dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing thirty-five thousand instantly and another thirty-five thousand before the end of the year. Another sixty-five thousand inhabitants of Hiroshima perished in the following months. The bomb killed sixty-five thousand Japanese instantly. On August 6, 1945, the government of the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.