It was said that America was perfecting a bomb with enough explosive to destroy the world. ... The American navy and the American army had a big difference in opinions concerning this issue. ... At the back of his mind he had formulated a plan that would not sacrifice the lives of thousands of Americans and would most definitely defeat Japan. ... He was suggesting that an invasion of mainland Japan would cost the lives of some 500,000 to 1,000,000 American troops. ... It was decided over the next couple of days that the best decision up to this time, was to invade the Japanese mainland, howeve...

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The United States had been bombing Japan for months, and the Japanese people were already becoming weak from nine months of air attacks. ... Yet, over four years after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and after nearly a year of the U.S. consistently performing air attacks on Japan, the United States decided that two atomic bombs would be dropped on the Japanese people. Not just the Japanese army, but the Japanese people; women, children, men, animals, homes, etc...On March 9th thru the 10th, 300 American bombers feverishly bombed Tokyo, Japan. ... He stated that he never "entertained any ...

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They drew pictures, closely related to hell, so Berger writes about how sickening it was what we Americans did to the innocent Japanese people who really didn't have much to do with the war. ... Berger writes about how, us Americans we're not given the truth of what was really being planned during the war against Japan. ... Many Americans were outraged when they found out what happened that day, they said it should never happen again. They pitied the Japanese for all the damage we did. ... Why weren't we as American, educated on what we were creating? ...

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This thinking might stand true with today's technology but during the war time of the Bombing of Japan this was not the case. Many military documents surfaced after the bombing showing that we, the United States of America, did not have to go to the extreme in making Japan surrender. ... These tests were conducted on July 16, 1945, not even a month before they were to be used on Japan. ... President Harry Truman, known for electing to use the new and deadly weapon, claimed that dropping the Atomic bomb would save over 100,000 American lives. ... General Groves and Admiral Purnell, two sen...

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In the spring of 1945, American forces continued to fight Japan in the Second World War. ... America had been motivated to build a nuclear weapon to use in case Germany built their own. The Americans believed that Germany had the resources and ability to build a nuclear weapon. ... As you can see, Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb not only because he wished to swiftly end the war in Japan, he also wanted to 'flex America's muscle' and power to Stalin, with the objective being that he would be wary of America's power and not attempt to conquer post-Nazi Europe.  .....

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Sasaki forms strong ties with Americans years later. ... Tanimoto) writes a letter to an American friend saying that everything that has happened was just a great sacrifice by the Japanese people, towards the goal of World Peace. ... He later becomes a Japanese citizen, changing his name, this creates a positive view on the Japanese people, and the unity there was after the bombing. ... It helped clear things up between the American and Japanese in a certain way; to show the Americans how truly devastating the bomb was, to show the human pain and suffering caused, and tone down the feeling of ...

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Leaving an impact of epic proportions, the bombs of The Manhattan Project have left scars on Japan and the world to this very day. ... Groves saw the need for a dedicated platoon of men that would be trained to drop the bomb on targets in Japan. ... Shortly after, on August 14, 1945, Japan finally surrendered, and World War II came to a close. ... He argued that without the use of the atomic bomb, a costly invasion of Japan would be required, and numerous American lives would be lost. ... In fact, McCloy, assistant to Henry Stimson, who was the Secretary of War at the time, attended a meet...

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Did America need to use the Atomic Bomb to end World War II? ... In late 1939, President Roosevelt ordered an American effort to make an atomic bomb before Germany. ... On his way back to the United States, President Truman ordered American fliers to drop an atomic bomb in Japan. ... The Japanese government told the people of Japan that it was a "special-type bomb." ... He said: "It was a question of saving hundreds of thousands of American lives. ...

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After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, Truman's primary objective was to end the war quickly with little loss of American life. ... Truman's goal was to spend less on American casualties, so the best solution to accomplish his objective was to drop the bomb on Hiroshima after the intense fire-bombing of about 37 Japanese cities (Langley 17). ... Numbers of American lives lost in the battle of Iwo Jima was 20,000, in the battle of Okinawa 41, 700 but the casualty rate of civilians and soldiers for America was 418,500. ... An example of a leaflet that was dropped in ...

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Given the devastating 1945 atomic bomb tragedy in Hiroshima, where the political interests of both parties, Japan and America, were involved, different ways of telling the story have been created. This matter could be examined clearly under the scope of the two films about the tragedy made by the two countries in the years that followed: The Beginning or the End (1947) by American and Children of Hiroshima (1952) by Japanese. With certain stark differences, the two films subtly underlie how America and Japan's perceptions of the incident diverge. ... Secondly, the use of the camera also ...

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"Hiroshima Diary" revealed to me that I am a product of American culture, and in doing so, opened my eyes to civilian Japanese sentiment in 1945, and the perspective of those in the midst of the horrors at Hiroshima. ... A different type of personal embarrassment was imposed upon me when I read some of the reactions of the Japanese to American troops in the days following the bombing. ... For the first time ever, I felt that some aspects of the atom bombs in Japan were worse than that of Pearl Harbor, simply because I was looking from a non-American perspective. ... Throughout my study of Am...

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On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever. ... Truman knew nothing about the bomb and its effects yet hastily decided that the bomb be used on Japan, considering Germany was no longer a target with the war in Europe over. ... Nevertheless, the decision was made that the bombs would be used until Japan surrendered. ... Most of the people in the United States of America supported the use of the atomic bomb; even President Truman called it, "the greatest thing in history" (Beyer 75)....

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In John Hersey's Hiroshima many Japanese citizens are effected by something that happened in a matter of seconds, the dropping of the first atomic bomb. ... Though on August 6th 1945, American troops dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. ... Father Kleinsorge loved Japan so much that he registered himself as a Japanese citizen, under the name Father Makoto Takakura and joined a Misasa congregation. ...

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In John Hersey's Hiroshima many Japanese citizens are effected by something that happened in a matter of seconds, the dropping of the first atomic bomb. ... Though on August 6th 1945, American troops dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. ... Father Kleinsorge loved Japan so much that he registered himself as a Japanese citizen, under the name Father Makoto Takakura and joined a Misasa congregation. ...

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America had emerged as the forerunners of manufacturing and their civil war is described as 'the first industrialized war'. ... Even in Britain, Japanese car and electronic firms are attracted here by our government. ...

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