The atomic bomb killed many innocent people, but it was necessary to end World War II. After World War II began in 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the neutrality of the United States. Many people in the United States thought that their country should stay out of the war. The people wanted the Allied Forces to have the victory. President Roosevelt also wanted an Allied victory because an Axis victory might endanger democracies everywhere. The …showed first 75 words of 1496 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1496 total…The name given to our invasion plan was "Olympia," but I saw nothing godly about the killing of all the people that would be necessary to make an invasion of the Japanese mainland. The casualty estimates called for 750,000 Americans -— 250,000 killed, 500,000 maimed for life. I could not worry about what history would say about my personal morality. I made the only decision I ever knew how to make. I did what I thought was right."