Part one of term paper
On August 6th, 1945, 70, 000 lives were ended in a matter of seconds. The United States had dropped a bomb on Hiroshima. Looking back on Truman's decision. Today, it is not thought of as such a good idea. It introduced a weapon of mass destruction that could eventually be used against us, it provided Japan with very long-lasting damages (r ...

Part two of term paper
... to drop the bomb was a strictly military measure designed to force Japan's unconditional surrender. He did not mean to intimidate the Soviet Union by dropping the bomb. He simply did not want to upset them. He did not keep the Soviet Union in the dark. At the conference in Potsdam on July 24th he mentioned to Stalin that "we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force" (Truman's memoirs). Stalin did not inquire about the specifics of this "new weapon" as he showed no special interest in i ...