(Sherrow 74) Therefore, Stalin felt using the bomb was just under the circumstances. Though this is the case, the fact that the U.S. possessed such technology was a threat to Stalin. After the bomb was used, Stalin insisted on the U.S. giving him the formula, but we declined. ...
Thesis Statement - The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima at the end of WWII, was not a way to intimidate the Soviet Union of our military force we could possibly use against them I evaluated the documents of the military diplomatic history from 1939 through 1947. From this information I cam...
When at the Potsdam meeting with Stalin and Churchill, Truman received word of the great success of the Trinity test. ... " Having previously spoken to Stalin about an exact date that the Soviets would enter the war, Truman had all the information he needed to be certain that he would enter the war with America against Japan. ...
May 3, 2003 Dear Readers, Now, on the 58th anniversary of the only time in history the atomic bomb was used, we are still left with the same question, a question that still generates heated debates. Was the United States justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...
Within the first few sentences from J. Samuel Walker's 'Prompt and Utter Destruction,' I questioned rather or not what Truman and his superiors chose to do was necessary. After reading into it a little further, I became more and more curious. If the primary key of concern was American causali...
Did America need to use the Atomic Bomb to end World War II? The atomic bomb killed many innocent people, but it was necessary to end World War II. After World War II began in 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the neutrality of the United States. Many people in the United States t...
The Bombing of Hiroshima: Necessary or Not? Why did America drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima? The bombing of Hiroshima was one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, yet this controversial question remains unanswered. At the time General Dwight Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, a...
Do I agree with Stimson's explanation to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? From November 1944 onward, Japan was subject to numerous bombings, but non-nuclear ones. It was predicted that because of the success of these bombings the war would end in October. When Germany surrend...
