Considering Your Knowledge of the use of atomic bombs by the united states against the empire of japan in the closing month of world war II what justifications did president truman argue for using the weapons (provide at least 2 reasons) and based on your opinion was this a decision that could have been avoided (explain why you feel this way)

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18 May, 03:39

Considering Your Knowledge of the use of atomic bombs by the united states against the empire of japan in the closing month of world war II what justifications did president truman argue for using the weapons (provide at least 2 reasons) and based on your opinion was this a decision that could have been avoided (explain why you feel this way)

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President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.