To Drop or Not to Drop: The Pros and Cons of the Nuclear Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This paper will argue that the US decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a flawed one that hurt American foreign policy legitimacy in the eyes of a world that was already prepared to dislike it. Beyond that, the decision to drop the bomb caused horrific casualties of limited military value when a few strokes of a pen - namely, to keep the emperor on the throne - could have averted the mess.