julia+eeho+hanna+ed+kj

Option 3

1. What will be the impact of your option on future American casualties in the war? - save American lives because any other method to secure peace will likely result in huge numbers of American casualties - Japanese army and even its citizens will continue to fight barbarically

2. What position does your option take on the policy of insisting on Japan’s unconditional surrender? - We must end this war with Japan's unconditional surrender. - Even the most hardned Japanese militarist will be forced to accept unconditional surrender - If not after the first atomic bomb, then after the second or third - japanese will admit defeat only in the face of overwhelming military force.

3. How will your option affect U.S. relations with the Soviet Union? - the destrutction of a japanese city caused by an atomic bomb will impress the Soviets with our country's power and compel them to soften their position - we must take this course of action since victory over fascism and militarism has not been achieved through hesitation and halfway measures

4. How will your option influence the future direction of the atomic age? - minimize US loss - No one mess with up with US

5. How does your option promote American values? - ends justifies the means: we are ready to take any measures if we could end the war with absolute victory - atomic bomb will defend American values

6. In summary, why should the Truman administration adopt your option? - to minimize American casulties - most affective way to prevent militarism and fascism