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Arts & Humanities > 20th & 21st Century US History Judging Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan

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To properly discern the reasoning for dropping the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, we must first examine the factors. We must remember that during this time period, Asia was the final economic frontier, for both the United States and the former Soviet Union. Both also wanted to expand their sphere of influence. The United States had already claimed all of the Americas to be within the it's sphere of influence by the Monroe Doctorine. Communism was just rising during this period and had spread to China. If the Russians had reached Japan first, then they would have had dominant contro...

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