I don't think there was a debate about whether to use the atomic bomb on Japan. Once the bomb became available the U.S. gave the Japanese an opportunity to surrender or suffer awful destruction. They declined and, with many U.S. solders' lives in the balance, President Harry Truman gave the order to use the bomb.
Since then, there have been many morning after debates about whether we should have done it.
I don't think there was a debate about whether to use the atomic bomb on Japan. Once the bomb became available the U.S. gave the Japanese an opportunity to surrender or suffer awful destruction. They declined and, with many U.S. solders' lives in the balance, President Harry Truman gave the order to use the bomb. Since then, there have been many morning after debates about whether we should have done it.
During World War II, U.S. leaders, officials, scientists, and others debated using the atomic bomb on Japan primarily because of the moral implications of such an attack. They were concerned as to whether they would be justified in using such a destructive weapon -- against which there was no defense. Moreover, they were concerned as to what the future implications might be if they were the first to unleash such a weapon into the world.
It didn't. Japan existed long before the atomic bomb
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan ; another on Nagasaki, Japan, 3 days later.
Harry s. truman approved the dropping of an atomic bomb on japan.
The US dropped the atomic bomb onto Japan on August 1945.
atomic bomb
Japan was negotiatin with the Soviet Union as the first atomic bomb was dropped.
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Hiroshima, Japan
One day after the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima in Japan.
Indeed, leaflets were scattered over japan warnig about the bomb.