14th Mar 2010
i mean like was it necessary to drop the atomic bomb?
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if you dont like someone, you drop an atomic bomb on themwell they could have wheeled it in on a ox and cart but dropping it was way cooler.They detonated two bombs, to see which one was more powerful. They wanted to show off to the Soviets who had been calling all the shots towards the end of WWII and especially on the future of eastern Europe.
It wasn't necessary at all, but did end the war. To end the war and save lives. The Japanese were extremely proud and the only way they would surrender was with brute force, they had to be completely crippled. Remember one thing though when you think of them dropping those bombs on populated areas. Our POW's were suffering terribly. I had a relative that survived the Bataan Death March, it was horrible. He was held about three years. The Japanese starved them, beat and tortured them. Killing many while the rest watched. The Japanese were a cruel people to their enemies. When they were rescued they looked like concentration camp survivors. After the way they treated our POW's, well I think more bombs should have been dropped over there.
"...but I don't think that was true..." Well, that's the difference between you and him...he was there and had to make the tough call, while you sit back enjoying the freedom his act afforded. Even after 2 A-Bombs, Japan was still trying to hold out and continue. Revisionist history sucks. Report Abuse
This question is asked every few weeks, depending on when your history class gets to it so just go back several (dozen) pages and see about 45 different answers. Or just be happy knowing it saved many thousands of lives both American and Japanese, sounds crazy but in the long run the projected losses to the U.S. military was around 100000 minimum to take the home islands of Japan. Estimated Japanese losses bordered on genocide.To save lives, and show our superiority to other countries. It saved millions of lives and the Japanese would not surrender unless the a-bomb was dropped. The U.S. had over 48,000 casualties in the battle of Okinawa and knew it would loose much more in a battle on mainland japan America suffered 12 thousand dead and 38 thousand wounded at the battle of Okinawa which is just a small island. During the battle the Japanese also suffered 107 thousand casualties and over 100 thousand civilians were also killed.
The atomic bomb was dropped to put a quick end to the war. To prevent what Gen. Douglas MacArthur said would be another battle of Okinawa from one end of the Japanese Islands to the other.it was dropped to end WW II with Japan. yes it was necessary.The estimates of total casualties in an invasion of the Japanese mainland, both sides and civilians, were roughly 1,000,000. Report Abuse
Well, it prevented the US invasion of the Japanese mainland. Seeing as how my father would've been in that invasion, and probably killed, I support Truman's decision...or maybe I wouldn't be here. Report Abuse
The Japanese never would have surrendered. The only way to truly win the war was to do something that at the time, couldn't be countered in any way, with any known method.There is great controversy on that point. I think it wasn't completely necessary, but it was a dire situation.
Japan knew they had lost and they were already trying to negotiate a peace. We say we wanted -unconditional- surrender, and we called it that but we let them keep their emperor, which was all they really wanted. It wasn't necessary to nuke them to get the agreement we did.
Truman said the only alternative would have been to invade Japan, which would have cost as many as a million American lives, but I don't think that was true, I think it was just a justification (like Dick Cheney telling us Iraq would welcome us as liberators).
The answers I read in different places are (1) that we'd spent so much money on it, we had to use it to demonstrate our power and (2) we wanted to show the Soviet Union that we wouldn't stand for them marching in and colonizing the far east as they did in Eastern Europe.
The city of Hiroshima was called a 'military target' because it was against the Geneva Convention, even in those days, to target a civilian population. But Hiroshima was chosen because it was the largest Japanese city that hadn't previously been bombed, so it would provide a good assessment of the damage the nuclear weapon could do. And the bomb was not aimed at the small district of defense plants on the edge of town, but at the city center, the center of population.
There is good evidence that Truman had no idea just how much damage the bomb would do. And it was clear he didn't know about the danger of lingering radioactive fallout that would kill people over a large area for decades later. He just knew it was a big bomb that could destroy a city. (Experiments done by the US military in Nevada and Utah, after the Korean war, showed they had no idea what they were playing with. Thousands of vets, including my own father in law, died decades later from cancer from radioactive dust they breathed during these tests.)
Being the only nuclear nation well into the 50s gave America a great sense of pride, and made some Americans think we would rule the world. But even by the Korean War we realized nukes were pretty much useless except as a threat of reprisal. Some generals thought we should use nukes in Korea, but Truman, by that time, realized they were counterproductive. There were even high-level military leaders who wanted to use them in Vietnam!It saved American lives, and arguably saved Japanese lives.
It ended WWII.
It showed our power to the Soviets.
It was an unambiguous and overwhelming victory that allowed us to take control of Japan with little internal resistance.No more WW2.#If you have any other info about this subject , Please add it free.# |
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