Controversy_Of_The_Bomb

Controversy Of The Bomb Controversy of the Bomb Criticism and praise have always followed the debate over the United States government’s decision to use atomic force in World War II. Depending on who is surveyed, one can get a variety of opinions. But the nature of the controversy, according to Ambrose and Brinkley, seems to be whether this atomic force was necessary to resolve World War II in the Pacific theater. In addition, the targets for the bomb were not even military targets, so the bomb would not have any effect on the military situation. If atomic force was necessary, why was the bomb dropped in such haste' Why hadn’t Truman waited to see how the Japanese government responded to the Russian declaration of war' Ambrose and Brinkley suggest several reasons, other than immediate military necessity, for using the bomb. Most of the high level officials that knew about the Manhattan project, including President Harry Truman and the scientists who developed it, simply regarded the atomic bomb as new military technology. Military leaders hadn’t hesitated to use recently developed napalm on air raids over Tokyo so the atomic bomb was considered, simply, as another easy option of bomb, atomic, military, force, war, truman, one, world, united, states, necessary, japan, felt, enemy, brinkley, weapon, using, themselves, theater, targets, suggest, simply, russians, reasons, rationale, public, president, pearl, patton, pacific, over, new, means, japanese, inflict