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President Truman's Justification/Non-Justification In Dropping Atomic Bombs - Papers

President Truman's Justification/Non-Justification In Dropping Atomic Bombs

Morgan Greene
3/19/12
Period 7

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were one of the most horrific things that happened in World War II. They killed between one hundred-fifty thousand and two hundred-forty-six people. Many think that President Truman was justified and not justified in ordering the use of atomic weapons on Japan in 1945.

President Truman was justified in ordering the use of atomic weapons because if he hadn't the United States would have had to keep fighting Japan until someone surrendered. In Senator Richard Russel's letter to President Truman, he stated that Japan deserves to have the bombs dropped on them because we deserve payback for the bombings of ...

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