Basically the intention of this plan was to show that the bomb could destroy an entire city. Many of the main people involved in the war including military and government leaders were very skeptical and against the dropping of the A-Bomb. One military leader, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief of Naval Operations said. " I didn't like the atom bomb or any part of it." (Page 321). .
The President's Chief of Staff, Admiral William D. Leahy said,.
"The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender in being the first to use it, we adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians in the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children." (Page 321).
On the other hand, special assistant to the Secretary of Navy, Admiral L. Lewis Strauss felt that the weapon should be used primarily to get the point across that the United States could destroy any city where the effects of the bomb would be dramatic. Many also felt that no matter what, Japan would lose the war. Atomic Bomb, or no Atomic Bomb, Japan would soon be defeated. The Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces, Henry H. "Hap" Arnold said, "The Japanese position was .
hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own air." (Page 334).
Though Arnold felt the dropping of the bomb was unnecessary, he felt there were political implications in the decision and he did not feel it was the military's job to question it. Among some of the Air Force leaders, Major General Curtis E. LeMay said, "the atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all." (Page 335).
Among some of the people that supported the use of the bomb were the American citizens back at home. They just wanted peace, and for the war to be over with.
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