The implementation of total war was a strategy picked by the Union officers for multiple reasons.
1) Total war will result in the destruction of Southern supplies and transportation. Sherman destroys railroad tracks, burns crops, and ruins plantations so that the Southern army/citizens have no resources to survive.
2) It will bring the Civil War to an end much quicker.
Sherman's idea of destroying the South can be viewed as an immoral action. This is due to the fact that Sherman and his troops will be destroying the land and property of individuals who may not even be part of the war or the Confederate war effort.
Robert Oppenheimer was the United states physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb.
Answer:
The Patriot victory at Saratoga is often seen as the turning point in the war. Not only did it renew the morale of the American public, but it convinced potential foreign partners, such as France, that American could win the war, and that it might be in their best interests to send aid.