The reactions
“Hailed as the ender of the war and the reason the Japanese surrendered without an invasion, the atomic bomb's destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki received very little praise from the American public, at least in print that is. From the time of the atomic bombings until the end of the year, only a few letters or editorials were written in direct praise of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Polls were taken from the tenth to the fifteenth in August 1945 it asking whether they approved or disapproved of the use of atomic bombs showed that eighty five percent of Americans approved and ten percent disapproved. Another poll was taken asking whether they approved of the development of atomic bombs, only sixtynine percent approved of this.
Americans started to realize the tragedy of killing thousands of Japanese was our fault, so people started to cover it up by saying that it showed that the atomic bomb was a great scientific discovery and that the bombings in japan were a great demonstration of their strenght. “Still others did not want to say that they were happy to know that many Japanese were dead, and disguised this through praising [of] the bomb.” People also started to see what a powerful source atomic energy and worried what the future would be like with such a terrific force and what else the government might do with it.
Americans started to realize the tragedy of killing thousands of Japanese was our fault, so people started to cover it up by saying that it showed that the atomic bomb was a great scientific discovery and that the bombings in japan were a great demonstration of their strenght. “Still others did not want to say that they were happy to know that many Japanese were dead, and disguised this through praising [of] the bomb.” People also started to see what a powerful source atomic energy and worried what the future would be like with such a terrific force and what else the government might do with it.