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In order to be taken seriously in the world and to build understanding, a nation must make good on all their promises, be them positive or negative. it's likely that the Allied forces could have found another means of guaranteeing Japan's surrender with more ingenuity, though perhaps not. They had exhausted standard means of warfare, American lives and they didn't want to continue battle. Japan refused and essentially guaranteed more bloodshed. "When advisors informed him that the alternative to using the atomic bomb was a million American casualties, he did not hesitate to give the order to use it" (Conlin, 718). America, some could argue, was being realistic and doing "the very bad things" powerful nations have to do to protect their people. And there is a strong argument for supporting the validity of such maneuvers. After America dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and issued a statement that it was in fact atomic, America asked for Japan's surrender, saying that if they did not receive it, they could expect, "a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this Earth" (Bodden, 31). America received no response from the Japanese, and then, had to make good on their promise.
Thus, Frank's book "Downfall" paints a detailed and nuanced picture of the international relations...
While the massive loss of innocent lives is always a tragedy, and should always be avoided at all costs, the U.S. demonstrated that it was willing to engage in drastic means to stop the bloodshed of war and the American casualties that went along with it. The atomic bomb, one could argue was what it took to guarantee the surrender of the Japanese when all else had failed.
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