By July of 1945, the defeat of imperial Japan was in sight and the end of The Second World War was imminent. Through six years of total war and the complete degeneration of conventional military conduct, the Allied Powers had triumphed over Axis nations within the war’s European Theatre. As all Allied Power focus shifted to the conflict with Japan, the death toll of both war machines accrued. Nonetheless, the success of American General Douglas MacArthur and his island hopping campaign allowed Allied forces to vanquish Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In conjunction, the successful trial of the Manhattan Project’s nuclear bomb, Trinity, on July 16th assured Harry S. Truman and the United States that victory was near. However, the means by which America reached this end were uncertain. Four main options addressed this concern: (1) A large scale troop invasion of Japan’s main island, (2) peaceful negotiation, (3) demonstration of nuclear weaponry in order to intimidate unconditional surrender, or (4) the unwarned atomic bombing of Japanese cities to force unconditional surrender. Near midnight of July 24th, 1945, President Truman signed General Leslie Groves’ directive sanctioning the deployment of two atom bombs, “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,
on Japan. On August 6th and 9th, the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targeted and obliterated by the American warheads. The notion of more American death, terms of unconditional surrender, and emerging tension with the Soviet Union[1] were catalytic in the American decision to atomically bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki as they galvanized American military leaders to quickly end the war by the final, nuclear option.
I hope We can Achieve World Peace and this is not gonna happen again.☮️.
