Was Truman Justified In Making Ethical Decisions
CRJ 313
19 February 2012 Truman: Bomb Dropping It was August 6, 1945 when the first ever atomic bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later another was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan and this let to the surrender of Japan in World War II. The surrender would have not occurred so soon if it had not been for President Harry Truman’s decision to use the first ever nuclear attack on another nation. His decision changed history and the way the world worked. This meant that nuclear power was out there at the disposal of the United States for them to use whenever they saw fit. The decision Truman had to make was extremely difficult seeing as he was faced with a huge ethical dilemma whether to kill entire cities to save millions of American lives. The issue was not only was it ethically right but did he have enough justification to prove to the world that dropping the atomic bomb was the only way to end the war. When you look at Truman’s decision from an ethical perspective, many different ethical views have to be taken into account to judge …show more content…
This doesn’t change the millions of American soldiers’ lives he saved when he made that decision. The dropping of the bomb ended the war in a dead halt and saved more lives than it ruined. This was a significant point in history where everything changed and a new path was paved for a new era of firepower that had never been dreamed of before. The reality was that nobody thought that someone was going to drop the atomic bomb but Truman proved them wrong and showed that when America had to get business done that he would take the necessary actions. One thing Truman did accomplish that was a good thing, there has not been atomic bomb dropped since that day on August 9, 1945 because the world seen the destruction and chaos that the atomic bomb carried with
19 February 2012 Truman: Bomb Dropping It was August 6, 1945 when the first ever atomic bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later another was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan and this let to the surrender of Japan in World War II. The surrender would have not occurred so soon if it had not been for President Harry Truman’s decision to use the first ever nuclear attack on another nation. His decision changed history and the way the world worked. This meant that nuclear power was out there at the disposal of the United States for them to use whenever they saw fit. The decision Truman had to make was extremely difficult seeing as he was faced with a huge ethical dilemma whether to kill entire cities to save millions of American lives. The issue was not only was it ethically right but did he have enough justification to prove to the world that dropping the atomic bomb was the only way to end the war. When you look at Truman’s decision from an ethical perspective, many different ethical views have to be taken into account to judge …show more content…
This doesn’t change the millions of American soldiers’ lives he saved when he made that decision. The dropping of the bomb ended the war in a dead halt and saved more lives than it ruined. This was a significant point in history where everything changed and a new path was paved for a new era of firepower that had never been dreamed of before. The reality was that nobody thought that someone was going to drop the atomic bomb but Truman proved them wrong and showed that when America had to get business done that he would take the necessary actions. One thing Truman did accomplish that was a good thing, there has not been atomic bomb dropped since that day on August 9, 1945 because the world seen the destruction and chaos that the atomic bomb carried with