Bombas Atomicas

Gabriel Urdaneta
Fall 2012
Writing Assignment 2

“Prompt & Utter Destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan” by J. Samuel Walker narrates the historical moments that president Harry Truman passed through the ending of World War Two. In eastern Europe Germany had surrendered under the pressure imposed by the Allies, while in the Pacific Japan remained fighting the warwithout any intentions of surrendering to the Allies. As long as the war between the United States of America and Japan took place, Russia maintained a neutral position to this problematic. It was necessary to find a way to persuade Japan about its definitive surrender to end the war, so the Allies studied all the possibilities to make it happen with the minimum cost of human lives. As consequence The,US government through the Manhattan Project focused their sources, military intelligence, and war machine to produce the most powerful weapon ever, the atomic bomb. On one hand, this weapon had the power to devastate an entire city without even risking American lives. On the other hand, it would result in the loose of many Japanese's lives including civilians. Historians often questions the waythe United States of America managed the war against Japan in the Pacific by the end of the World War Two because of the significance of using so much power over this nation, Analyzing: Why were the bombs dropped? And if Where the bombs necessary?
The reason to drop the bombs in Japan held by the government of the United States of America by that time was to end the war quickly and save as muchAmerican lives as possible. According to Walker the US government was analyzing the way that Japan could be persuade about its surrender to stop all the brutalities and inhuman crimes that the Japanese army was committing in its domains over the Pacific during the war. On one hand, Many lives were lost in those battles because of the perception about fighting war held by Japanese soldiers who did notexclude civilians from their victims, including war prisoners, women and children. One the other hand, Japanese soldiers were loyal to the emperor even if they had to loose their lives. As consequence of that loyalty Americans soldiers witnessed very often how Japanese soldiers killed themselves in other to avoid being capture by American forces, and this mass suicided included civilians loyal tothe emperor blowing themselves up using grenades, and in some other cases adults jumping to the edged holding children.
Even though American forces took cover of most of the important islands in the Pacific, and made Japanese forces to get isolates or pushed back to their country, Japan did not show any signal about negotiating a surrender. Actually Japan ordered their forces to resist to thevery last moment when fighting to produce as much causalities in the American forces as they could, and maybe they could get a chance on making the United States of America to give up on the desire of winning the war. Also Japan was hoping that Russia could entire the war taking a position favorable to Japan. Also, the United States was trying to negotiate with the soviet about making them join thewar against Japan, but Russia wanted to remain neutral. As consequence the US government deposited its hope on the Manhattan project that promised giving the war a fast and definitive end with the lower cost of human lives.
Once the bombs were ready to be used, The, US government order the drop of the first atomic bomb in the city of Hiroshima and the second one on Nagasaki to hit the Japan in away that have not been done before, showing the power of the new American weapon to destroy entires cities causing a huge number of deaths without performing an invasion over Japanese soil. Historians also held the theory that the US government wanted to send a message to the Soviets through these attacks, and decrease the tensions over the foreign relationships of the US with Russia. It was...