e."(Howarth 204) People have asked themselves why the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The Hiroshima bomb was a uranium bomb and the Nagasaki bomb was a plutonium bomb. Did this mean that it was a "scientific experiment".(Yew Teng 3) The decision to use the bomb on Japanese was easier than using it on Germans. First of all, Japan had directly attacked an American base, which created racist feelings in the Americans against the Japanese. According to journalist Coleman, few American soldiers that fought in Germany are sorry that they did not obliterate the Germans. On the other hand, most soldiers that fought against the Japanese "there is an underlying anit-Japanese hatred that is visceral and strong." He also said "wether the United States would have used it on a Bavarian city full of blonde-haired children is hard to tell. But precious little soul-searching went into the decisions to incinerate whole cities of Japanese. President Truman expressed his racist feelings openly. When Truman made the decision to use the bomb against Japan, ordered Secretary of War, Stimson, he said "use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children."(Truman's Diary) In his diary, Truman writes "even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that terrible bomb on the old capital or the new."(Truman's diary) This was after they had discussed Tokyo as the target. After the Japanese had refused to accept the "unconditional surrender", Churchill asked Truman to change the conditions of the surrender to allow the Japanese "some show of saving their military honour and some assurance of their national exitence."(Churchill 555) Truman responded that he did not think "the Japanese had any military honour after Pearl Harbour."(Churchill 555) After the bombings, it was evident that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were n...
