The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the end to the world largest armed conflict. Many debates have surfaced over the ethics of such an attack. The bomb itself caused massive amounts of casualties while the unknown effects of radiation caused many more deaths amongst the survivors of the blast. Was such a destructive weapon really necessary? Thousands of American lives would have been lost in an all out invasion of Japan. The atomic …showed first 75 words of 1255 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1255 total…those who fought for your country. On July 25,1945 the moral debate ended when Truman ordered the dropping of the first atomic weapon. The decision was finalized eleven days later when the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and nuclear warfare began. There days later Bock's Car, another B-29, released on over Nagasaki. Both cause great destruction and killed tens of thousands, but in the American mind this was not emphasized. Peace was.