Intro and Thesis

During the summer of 1945 President Harry Truman had one of the biggest decisions that any President ever in the US had to make. He had to make the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan was unjustified because the cost outweighed the effects, radiation still affects the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki today, and the use of nuclear weapons started the nuclear arms race. 


Before the bombs were dropped the Allied Forces were getting prepared to do a full force invasion on Japan that would have cost the US thousands of American lives and the lives of all the other Allied countries. The Japanese had already proved that they would not surrender to the Americans because it was shown in their culture that it is better to die in battle than to come home defeated. But the Allies would of defiantly defeated the Japanese because the Allies had the Japanese way out numbered.