J. Samuel Walker's Prompt and Utter Destruction

            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 causalities, then why was it realistic to drop a bomb that would still strike down Americans? Truman met with his cabinet, as well has the British Prime Minister- Winston Churchill and the Soviet premier, Joseph Stalin at what we now know as the Potsdam Conference. As stated in the book, on page number one, paragraph two, the point of this meeting was to get a "variety of opinions on the drop of the atomic bomb." (pg.#1, paragraph#2) Personally, I believe that not everyone agreed with the idea but they were either too afraid to voice their opinion or too scared to see the United States invade Japan. But what if you were to find out that Truman never had a choice. Everything from the first page to the fifth was not true or another words erroneous. What this means is that it's all a myth. .
             There are not many reasons as to why Truman decided to drop the bombs. There are only just a few. One of which being, the numbers. Based off of research, Truman, and his cabinet came to the conclusion that the number of causalities had an invasion happened would be much greater than any other plan of action. After a long time of deciding rather or not is was a good enough reason to drop the bomb, it became one of the primary factors in the decision. .
             Have you ever had to pick up a new piece of hardware or technology and look at it like "What in the world is this?" This is what the United States of America planned to do to the Japanese. No other country had ever heard of such thing as an atomic bomb, nor did they see one .
             Coming in their near future. Technology is what helped urge Truman to go ahead and drop the bomb as well.