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The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs

Abi High

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Abi High A-Bomb Abstract.docx
Abi High A-Bomb Bibliography.docx
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Title
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs
Author(s)
Abi High
Issue Date
2022-04-27
Keyword(s)
  • History
  • WWII
Date of Ingest
2022-05-05T18:53:41Z
Abstract
The United States made the decision to drop two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 during both World War II and the Cold War. President Harry Truman’s decision transformed into one of the most controversial events in history. Scholarship reveals a gradual shift in historians’ views on the decision to drop the atomic bombs from the 1950s through the early 2000s. Chronologically, early historians are likely to believe the atomic bombs were necessary, those in the middle vary, and later historians believe they were not. Historical methodology has a role in changing viewpoints. Historians who utilize military methodology are often pro-bomb, but this slowly shifts when social methodology takes over historical scholarship against the atomic bombs. The decision to drop the atomic bombs will forever have a legacy in the United States history on the morality and the impact of the decision, which historians will discuss for years to come.
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
en
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