Why The United States Dropped The Atomic Bomb?
At the start of 1942, the Manhattan Project, which was codename for the creation of the atomic bomb, began. The project was to create a high functioning bomb which caused mass destruction. As WWII came to a close, with Japan and the United States the only remaining countries in combat, neither showed signs of surrendering. Something had to be done to end the war, so the United States dropped the atomic bomb. It was justifiable to drop the bomb because neither country showed signs of surrendering and the war would have to come to an end eventually. It was justifiable to drop the atomic bomb because it was the final turning point in winning WWII for the United States. As the history.com notes, “Six months of strategic fire-bombing of 37 Japanese