Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War 2 - AP United States History

Let's Bomb The atomic bomb created an explosion equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, which if used on people, would be morally abhorrent; therefore, the atomic weapon should not be used without sound reasoning. By looking at previous battles with the Japanese, the alternative to the atomic bomb, a land invasion, would result in a loss of millions of lives. The repercussions of not dropping bombs would be devastating to both Japan and the United States. …showed first 75 words of 649 total…

…showed last 75 words of 649 total…still take place. There was no perfect solution to ending the war with Japan. The choices were to compromise and appease, invade, or bomb, and using atomic bombs was the best choice then and now in hindsight. Also, if we had not used the atomic bomb on the Japanese and shown what terrible damage, death, and devastation it caused, Americans may have been the first target for this weapon of mass destruction in the future.