Was the United States Justified? Assessing the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The bombing of Hiroshima was devastating. Besides the tens of thousands of casualties, the U.S. came out triumphan. On the day May 7th, 1945, the Nazis surrendered, almost ending WWII, but some of the Axis Powers were still fighting, on December 7th, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, a major Navy base in Honolulu, Hawaii, officially bring the United States into WWII. When the Nazis surrendered, the United States saw the perfect time to strike, starting the first use of a […]