On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and many innocent civilians died from the bomb. When the bomb was dropped, virtually the entire city died, and many died after the explosion from radiation poisoning. I personally think that President Truman's decision was not justified, because it seems unethical to drop an atomic bomb on a densely populated city where many innocent civilians died. The Japanese were already defeated and were ready to surrender. World War II was fought primarily in Europe between 1939 and 1945. Part of World War II was fought in the Pacific. In 1931, Japanese expansion into East Asia, with the invasion of Manchuria, continued until 1937 with the attack on China. On September 27, 1940, Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy, making them Axis powers. “As the sun rose Sunday morning, December 7, 1941” (Holt 403), Japan attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and 3,500 Americans were killed or wounded in the attack. Japan attacked Hawaii because in September 1940 the United States placed an embargo on Japan banning exports of steel, scrap iron, and aviation fuel to Japan, due to Japan's conquest of northern French Indochina . Since then the United States declared war on Japan. The United States Air Force dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Tens of thousands of people died in the explosion, and many more people later died from radiation exposure. First of all, I personally believe that the United States made the wrong decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima because the Japanese were ready to surrender. “The Japanese were already defeated and were ready to surrender because… middle of paper… Apanians, because they killed about 2,400 people. Secondly, the Americans considered the Japanese “determined not to surrender as they were literally ready to commit suicide” (Source Sheet 2). Japanese pilots volunteered to become Kamikaze, or suicide pilots. Ultimately, the aftermath of the bomb drop left cities with radiation poisoning, and so people could not live in those areas for a long time. Overall, I believe Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was unjustified and out of place. The bomb killed approximately 80,000 innocent Japanese civilians. The Japanese were defeated and were ready to surrender. Dwight D. Eisenhower even regretted dropping the bomb, because he did not want the United States to be the first country to use weapons of mass destruction on a densely populated city.