The Unnecessary Nuclear Attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima Essays

The realist school of thought stands for anarchy and fighting for its own selfish reasons to preserve the nation's interest. Back in December 7th, 1941 after the Japanese air force attack to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, America’s military was caught by surprise bringing out the attention of the whole nation against Japan. President Harry S. Truman, made the decision in 1945 to attack Japan with nuclear bombs in August 6 first to Hiroshima and then three day on August 9 to Nagasaki. Days later, Japan surrender, and World War II was drawn into a close. Realist scholars say that the decision made to use the bombs was unnecessary. The death among the two cities were around 200,000, in Hiroshima there were 90,000 deaths, and Nagasaki had 37,000 death, without counting the deaths of the injured and after nuclear exposure and contamination after effects. Although, people usually think realism is attach to power, force, and attack, they knew back then Japan had been defeated before the bombs were drop. Scholars like Hans Morgenthau, Gar Alperovitz, George Kennan, and Generals and Admirals like Dwight Eisenhower, William D. Leahy, Ralph Bard, L. Lewis Strauss, Henry H. Arnold, and others question the what was the real reason behind Truman's presidency to use the mass destruction weapons. One of the main reasons behind the attack was to proof to the Soviet Union that we had the nuclear weapon and we were not afraid to use it against our enemies. The major excuse used was that the destruction of the two cities minimize the United States military casualties that would had been produce by war battles. At that time General Eisenhower expressed his dreading opinion of the devastating decision, the Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson though the str... .... 2015. . Morgenthau, Hans J. Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. New York: Knopf, 1948. Print. Stimson, Henry L. "The Decision to Use The Atomic Bomb." Asia for Educators - Columbia University (1947): 1-16. Web. "The Decision to Deploy the Atomic Bombs Against Japan as Well as the Alternatives That the Us Had." Gem Portfolio. N.p., 19 Nov. 2013. Web. . Visser, Laurens J. "Speaking Truth to Power: Hans J. Morgenthau and the 21st Century." Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (n.d.): 204-22. Print. Weber, Mark. "Was Hiroshima Necessary? Why the Atomic Bombings Could Have Been Avoided." The Journal of Historical Review 16.3 (1997): 4-11. Print.