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Article: Question: was Truman right to drop the bomb?(President Harry Truman; World War II bombing of Japan; two opposing views)
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- July 24, 1995
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Postwar historians have challenged President Harry Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb to shorten World War II and save American lives. Some claim that the Allies could have ended the war by negotiating with the Japanese; others contend dropping the bombs was patent racism and that atomic bombs never would have been dropped on the Germans. Still others have called the atomic bombings a cynical demonstration of U.S. power -- making Hiroshima and Nagasaki not the last targets of World War II but rather the first targets of the Cold War.
In reality, anyone who examines the last weeks of the war closely and dispassionately would conclude that Truman was looking for ...
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