Question

Truman had 3 choices in regards to the atomic bomb. Which one would you have made? Give one positive tand one negative to your choice.
Your answer should look like this.
Choice
Positive
Negative:

this is for a grade and i’m stuck please help

Answer 1

Answer:

You did not include the choices however one of them was to demonstrate the power of the atomic bomb to the Japanese by dropping it on an unpopulated area and I would have done that.

Choice: Demonstrate power of bomb by dropping it on Unpopulated Area

Positive : Over a 100,000 Japanese civilians would have been spared death and property would not have been destroyed on a massive scale. Also the area would not be radioactive leading to adverse effects on generations of people born near the drop zone.

Negative: The Japanese were very defiant and stubborn in their fighting and so might have ignored the demonstration which would have meant that we wasted 50% of our nuclear bombs as the United States because only 2 existed in the world at the time and the U.S. had both.