Toge Sankichi laments on the horrors of the Atomic Bomb through the lines,“Can we forget that flash/Suddenly 30,000 in the streets disappeared” (Sankichi 1-2) in his poem entitled, “August 6th”. Many individuals affected by the events that occurred on August 6th and August 9th (cnduk.org) can resonate with this description, as the Atomic Bomb destroyed everything in it’s path; The destruction it left was depicted as “destroyed in a searing blast of flame and smoke, the most lethal attack with a single weapon in human history” (Kross 1). This Bomb left lasting effects that Japan is still recovering from, to this day. Using the nuclear bomb was unnecessary due to the fact Japan was already mostly defeated, many innocent Japanese citizens died…show more content… At the time, Dwight D. Eisenhower was an esteemed “Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and future president of the United States” (Freeman 1), who knew “that by mid 1945 Japan was defenseless” (Freeman 1); therefore, he even went so far as to say “Japan was already defeated and dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary.” This was largely due to the weak air force that Japan had possessed. They had “entered World War II with limited aims” (Coakley 501) and had made a fatal mistake. Due to the little strength the navy and air force could be identified as having, they “failed in their main effort to take Midway Island, northwest of Hawaii, and in the naval battles of the Coral Sea and Midway in May and June they lost the bulk of their best naval pilots and planes” (Coakley 501). This incident made them appear weak, as well as defenseless. As a result of this, the United States taking advantage of a country that “was already on it’s last legs” (Kross 1), would be pointless. The United States should have refrained from annihilating Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the Atomic Bomb because Japan was already extremely fragile, and the United States would have found victory either way. Not only does Japan’s military state attribute to the reasons the Atomic Bomb was not needed, but the casualties that came as a result are an overwhelming