Decision Of The Bomb: Drop It Or Not? August 6, 1945, is not a day to be forgotten. It marks the world's first use of an atomic bomb, which was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US Military. In total, more than 140,000 people were estimated to be killed. Three days later, a 10,000 pound bomb, fat boy, was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, resulting in 60 to 80 thousand deaths. Although the most memorable effects of the atomic bomb were the mass amounts of death, the decision to drop the bomb has greatly influenced American history and the outcome of world war 2. If I were president back in 1945, I think that I too would’ve given instructions to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. I probably would’ve been obliged to use a weapon of such large devastation for three reasons. At the time, United States occupied many of the islands of the Pacific, and all that remai....

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