Did President Truman make the right decision to drop the atom bomb on Japan?

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Yes it was the right decision to drop the bomb. It not only saved lives but also stopped the growth of communism. It's estimated that 1 million US soldiers would have been casualties trying to take Japan and many more millions of Japanese would have died. Also Russia had invaded Manchuria and was moving through Korea, the war had to therefore end quickly to stop the communist expansion.

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It is a matter of opinion. A historian would agree that the bomb was necessary "the war to end all wars" and that it saved more lives to drop a bomb than to storm their beaches like D-day. This bomb was very necessary, though, if you think logically in historical and scientific terms. A prosponed Atombomb drop would affect the US and the Allied power in a very important detailed way. The bomb was dropped, for the main theory, to stop the operation that the axis power had in mind the whole time, where they will take in a lot of land. Before this happened, and to screw Jap up, this bombing had really great success and was very triumphic. That doesn't mean that the bomb was a good thing. Japan is a leading country in industry, architecting, and in beautiful artwork. But this Atom bomb's radiation caused many birth defects, which is still a big downside. Babys with no arm, AIDS, HIVS, and many cancer was very common. This bomb killed many important major people in Japan, and also killed many innocent people.

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