Ihad then set up a committee of top men and had asked them to study with great care the implications the new weapons might have for us. it was their recommendation that the bomb be used against the enemy as soon as it could be done. they recommended further that it should be used without specific warning. . i had realized, of course, that an atomic bomb explosion would inflict damage and casualties beyond imagination. on the other hand, the scientific advisors of the committee reported . . that no technical demonstration they might propose, such as over a deserted island, would be likely to bring the war to an end. it had to be used against an enemy target. the final decision of where and when to use the atomic bomb was up to me. let there be no mistake about it. i regarded the bomb as a military weapon and never doubted it should be used.
background information: this passage comes from the memoirs of us president harry s. truman, who made the decision to use the atomic bomb.
which of these statements best expresses president truman’s feelings in this passage?
he regretted his decision to drop the bomb on japan.
he believed that using the bomb was absolutely necessary to end the war.
he was undecided about whether to use the bomb, but was talked into it.
he made the decision on his own, without input from us army advisors.

an era of negotiation.

is that an answer to your question?

explanati“there were many such dangers, in which the odds were all against them. their children were not as well as they had been at home; but how could they know that there was no sewer to their house, and that the drainage of fifteen years was in a cesspool under it? how could they know that the pale-blue milk that they bought around the corner was watered, and doctored with formaldehyde besides? when the children were not well at home, teta elzbieta would gather herbs and cure them; now she was obliged to go to the drugstore and buy extracts–and how was she to know that they were all adulterated? how could they find out that their tea and coffee, their sugar and flour, had been doctored; that their canned peas had been colored with copper salts, and their fruit jams with aniline dyes? and even if they had known it, what good would it have done them, since there was no place within miles of them where any other sort was to be had? the bitter winter was coming, and they had to save money to get more clothing and bedding; but it would not matter in the least how much they saved, they could not get anything to keep them warm. all the clothing that was to be had in the stores was made of cotton and shoddy, which is made by tearing old clothes to pieces and weaving the fiber again. if they paid higher prices, they might get frills and fanciness, or be cheated; but genuine quality they could not obtain for love nor moneyon:

which statement explains one of the reasons world war 1 was so much more destructive than earlier conflicts

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