Dropping the Atomic Bomb

On the early morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese without any formal warning attacked Pearl Harbor. It was an American port in the Pacific, which sheltered most of America’s pacific naval power. The Japanese had an idea that a war could be won by attacking the enemy before actually declaring war. Many unsuspecting military personnel and their families were killed on that morning. The name Pearl Harbor is a name for “Japanese quilt and shame” (“…

…other, and committed suicide rather than surrender. Furthermore, the atomic bomb save many lives and ended the war more quickly than if more battles would have been fought. Truman said in a letter to Samuel McCrea Cavert, “’when you deal with a beast [Japan as a country], you must treat him as a beast,’” and the “’only language they seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them’” (“Hiroshima: Harry Truman”).