Was the United States Justified in Dropping Bombs on Japan?
Post date: Mar 25, 2015 8:01:55 PM
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Arguments For
http://www.authentichistory.com/1939-1945/1-war/4-Pacific/4-abombdecision/2-support/index.html
http://www.japantoday.com/category/opinions/view/was-the-dropping-of-the-atomic-bombs-necessary
http://www.westshore.edu/personal/mwnagle/US2/stimson&a-bomb.htm (PRIMARY SOURCE)
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1946/12/if-the-atomic-bomb-had-not-been-used/376238/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2014/08/05/the-nuking-of-japan-was-a-military-and-moral-imperative/
Arguments Against
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/30/books/did-we-need-to-drop-it.html
http://www.authentichistory.com/1939-1945/1-war/4-Pacific/4-abombdecision/3-against/
http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/dropping-the-atomic-bomb-was-wrong-period
http://www.spectacle.org/696/hiroshi.html
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2005/no-1213-september-2005/why-they-dropped-bombs
A Bit of Both
http://csis.org/blog/understanding-decision-drop-bomb-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
Primary Sources
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook45.asp#War In Asia