Story: “My division, like most of the ones transferred from Europe was going to take part in the invasion at Honshu (an island of Japan). The people who preferred invasion instead of A- bombing seemed to have no intention of proceeding to the Japanese front themselves. I have already noted what a few more days would mean to the luckless troops and sailors on the spot…. On Okinawa, only a few weeks before Hiroshima, 123,000 Japanese and Americans killed each other. War is immoral. War is cruel.” Source: Paul Fussell, a World War II Soldier, Thank God for the Atom Bomb,

1990.

Question:

1.) What did Paul Fussel feel towards the dropping of the Atomic Bomb? Why?

2.)What was one of the major concerns of the American leaders and military during this time?