What would happen to President Truman if he didn't decide to drop the atomic bombs on Japan ???

Question

I have a research paper to do and kind of stuck on this argument. What would happen to President Truman if he didn't decide to drop the atomic bombs on Japan ???
I have been finding information on yahoo search but none of them works for me. Most of them are about demonstrating our power to Stalin. Any suggest is welcome. If you may, can you provide me a link for your reason ( .edu or .org and .gov are prefered ).
Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Then we would have had to invade Japan. This would have resulted in hundreds of thousands more casualties to American troops. Not to mention more Japanese civilian deaths than were inflicted by the atomic bombs themselves. So in reality, those bombs saved lives.

Answer 2

As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history. Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage. An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed.

Although the action undoubtedly saved many American lives by bringing the war to an end, the morality of the decision is still debated.

Answer 3

The Atomic bombs i think prevented further disasters and put the war to a complete halt (instead of being dragged out for many more years) and let the japanese know that they need to surrender unconditionaly or go extinct. The japanese would have otherwise not surrendered at all and would have been much worse not just for americans but for japanese too. I believe the japanese didn't surrender after the first bomb just because how they were in that time period although i think during the entire war japan made disastrous mistakes on there part all due to their arrogance. I think the A-bombs saved them from themselves. they can't complain nowadays because they have a democracy and full blown U.S. military protection

Answer 4

The war would have ended the same way; however the USA would have lost many thousands of more soldiers.

My next door neighbor was at Iwo Jima and if his account is half accurate than it would have been one tough and bloody battle to take the Japanese Island.

The Japanese would never surrender, you would have to root out and kill every single armed person on the Island (it would make Iraq look like a picnic).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WW_II

Answer 5

If he hadn't dropped the bomb on the Japanese, he would have been forced to conduct a full-scale amphibious assault against the Japanese mainland, which would have resulted in millions of deaths on both sides. Also, a full-scale invasion may well have failed--look at the resistance on Okinawa and Iwo Jima. In short, if Truman hadn't utilized the atomic bomb to cow the Japanese into surrender, he may well have been the president who lost WWII rather than the president who won it.

Answer 6

According to Liberals of today, Truman murdered 100000+ of japaness civilians who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbour Attack.

Answer 7

Maybe if Truman acknowledged that he knew about the Pearl Harbor plot and didn't have defenses down for it to happen. Then maybe none of this would've happened to begin with.

Yep, this country is already in Fascism. Next stop, communism then when the global elitists have their way, GLOBALIZATION.

Answer 8

If he didn't, he still would have been President, but with a lot less voters in 1946.

Answer 9

Japan would have surrendered anyway. They were already about to surrender.

Answer 10

Actually at that point we were close to loosing the war. We probably would have been an occupied country and the presidency would have been no more. So he would have lost his job.