Educating ourselves on events in world history may not prevent the present and future leaders from making the same mistakes, and neither will it accomplish utter tranquility and peace among all countries. It is however an important tool for us individuals to understand the results of each event, and how they came to shape the structures of nations and their relationships with each other today. The bombing of Hiroshima is an event that has impacted the United States and the world to this day. And thus it is important to understand the different standpoints of why Truman orders the release of the atomic bomb. It is also important to consider the result of the bombing for Japan, the United States and the rest of the …show more content…
Stimson, the secretary of War during the 1965 later agreed with this statement as he wrote in his memoirs “no effort was made, and none was seriously considered, to achieve surrender merely in order not to have to use the bomb”. Furthermore, Chief of staff of President Harry Truman William Healy saw this decisions as a political and not military. The United Nations was questioned, as many perceived it a propaganda act to scare Russia. Many questioned the ethicality of the United States for sacrificing the lives in to only execute their personal agenda against Russia. (Stimson, …show more content…
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A good, thoughtful essay. You don’t really address the question however. I asked you to explain the nature of historical inquiry, not its purpose. How does what you have here, on Truman’s use of the atomic bomb, explain the nature of historical inquiry? The question asks you to focus on the need for multiple perspectives. You do do that in this essay, but again, not directly in addressing the question at hand.
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