Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Was it Justified?

The United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 1945. They claimed that it was to end World War II without risking the death of hundreds of thousands American lives during a planned invasion of the Japanese mainland. The President at the time, Harry Truman had other reasons in mind when dropping the bombs like, to justify the tremendous cost of testing and researching the bombs, to intimidate and impress …

…assault on an already defeated adversary. After the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August, the Americans displayed inhuman impatience by not waiting longer to drop the second device, which was delivered on Nagasaki three days later. More than one hundred thousand Japanese died, and thousands more were injured or poisoned with radiation. This mistake made by the United States has now become known as one of the greatest disasters of the 20th century.