Technology has enabled the advancement of warfare, from the invention of gunpowder to the splitting of the atom. These results have favored the leap in capabilities of numerous nations to wage war against each other. Of these discoveries, the splitting of the atom gave rise to an invention that would hurl the world from conventional warfare into the nuclear age. These ideals have been brainstormed by some of the greatest minds in America and abroad. These scientists began formulating the creation of the atomic bomb, a device that would change the world in ways never before imagined. The world changed the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. This evoked a catastrophic spiral in the morality and methods of conducting the war. Those in positions of power felt as omnipotent as God. However, in reality they were as small and insignificant as those they preyed on. No one will ever be able to go back in time and undo what was done in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The option of not dropping the bomb was made available to American leaders and its allies. This alone shows not only the citizens of the United States, but the entire world what could have been formulated to save Japan from the nuclear horror that was unleashed on that fateful day in 1945. One has often wondered what was behind the launch of the atomic bomb. . Was it greed in nations being captured and brought under another's regime? Was this a precise move in the last chess game in which execution was the “checkmate” needed to highlight the country that possessed this power? It may never be known why President Truman gave the green light to a technology that he was well aware would… half of paper…, Commanding General File, 24 Schedule D, Document ( a).Henry Stimson, Memorandum discussed with the President, April 25, 1945, Henry Stimson Diary, Manuscripts and Archives, Henry Lewis Stimson Papers, Yale University, (New Haven, CT.), Document(b).Joint Chief of Staff, "Minutes of Meeting held at the White House”, June 18, 1945", RG 77, MED Records, HB file, folder no. 76, Document 20. President Harry Truman, Truman's Potsdam Diary, Barton J. Bernstein, "Truman At Potsdam: His Secret Diary," Foreign Service Journal, July/August 1980, Document 38. Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, Diary Entry, April 25, 1945, Henry Stimson Diary, Sterling Library, Yale University, Document (d).Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, Diary, July 24, 1945, "Japanese Peace Feelers", Naval History Center, Operational Archives, Diaries of James Forrestal, Document 23.