It seems like a terrible thing, but it was necessary in order to bring back peace to the world at the smallest cost possible. ... By using the atomic bombs, Truman "saved 'the lives of hundreds of thousands of Japanese boys and millions more of Japanese people" (Walker 4), not to mention all the lives of American men who had not seen their families since the first gunshot fired of the second world war. ... More than 60 of its cities had been destroyed by conventional bombing, the home islands were being blockaded by the American Navy, and the Soviet Union entered the war by at...

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When the Japanese had realized that they were the only ones left in the war, Germany their ally, was already beaten out of the war and all efforts were now concentrated at them, the Japanese began suing for a peaceful end to the war. ... According to the surrender agreement, "the authority that deceived the people into embarking on world conquest must be eliminated from Japan" (Long). ... The hawks were in favor of continuing the war to the end, regardless of material damage to Japan. ... The Japanese were completely cut off from the rest of the world, as Robert Butow said, " the scales of the...

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