o the UnitedStates dropped Little Boy. (Statement, screen 2)After the second bomb was dropped, Japan realized that theymust surrender, even though it was a very tough choice tomake because they had to lose their Emperor. Hirohito, amember of the council, spoke at the surrender conference,saying, “Ending the war, is the only way to restore worldpeace and to relieve the nation from the terribledistress...” (Hirschfeld 156-157). Japan then surrenderedafter the conference and there was no need for an invasion,and the United States troops could go home.Continuing the war with an invasion would more thanlikely have killed more people than dropping the bomb. Theatomic explosions quickly turned the war to force Japan tosurrender. The controversy of the bombs will live onforever, but the fact remains that these devastating devicesput an abrupt end the war, Little Boy and Fat Man, the most destructive weaponsever conceived by the mind of man, had stamped finish tothe bloodiest, most destructive conflict in man’shistory. August 14, 1945. World War II was finallyover (Hirschfeld 205)....
