Thesis and Intro

In 1945 Truman had to deal with one of the hardest decisions he had to make in his life, whether or not to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. over 200,000 Japanese citizens were killed from the dropping of this bomb. Due to such a high casualty rate of innocent civilians I believe that the United States was not justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because no matter the motives over 100,000 innocent lost their lives immediately or from the after effects of the atomic bombs. 

At 8:15 am on August 6th 1945, the ten foot atomic bomb named "little foot" was dropped on Hiroshima. Staff sergeant George  Caron described what he saw as "a bubbling mass of purple-gray smoke and you could see it had a red core in it and everything was burning inside. . . . It looked like lava or molasses covering a whole city. . . .". This is the explosion that immediately vaporized over 70,000 and 100,000 more deaths resulted in a matter of days after the dropping of the bomb. Only three days later the U.S dropped a second atomic bomb named "fat man" on Nagasaki. In total there were over 200,000 casualties resulting from the decision to drop the atomic bombs. This is why I believe that Truman was unjust in his decision to do so. 200,000 innocent people lost their lives for our selfish needs to save ourselves.