Some historians feel that President Truman dropped the atomic weapons on Japan not to end the war in the Pacific, but to impress the Soviet Union with US military power. Given Truman’s other options, how do you think a leader today would make the same decision?

there is a lot of controversy about this. Personally, I do feel like it was done to bulk up to the Soviet Union. It killed a lot of innocent people, but some believe it was a necessary sacrifice to protect their loved ones. But me, personally, i would rather suffer by the loss of my family than have the guilt of killing innocent people.  

i dont think the decision today would be any different.

well it definitly does because if you are seen as weak you will be seen as unimportant and they will walk all over you and the us is the most powerful military and the largest in the world

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the treaty of brest-litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 march 1918 between the new bolshevik government of russia and the central powers (german empire, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and the ottoman empire), that ended russia's participation in world war i.