I need as much information as i can about the Atomic bombs and harry truman and his beliefs and more.?

Question

mostly i need to know about trumans feelings toward what was going on with the bomb and i need to know stuff about truman. all info would help. please hlep if u can.

Answer 1

Nuking Japan might have been a mistake or it might not have.

It was a mistake because, it caused a huge loss of civilian life and the use of it started to turned world opinion against American and cause sympathy for Japan. Japan was trying to negotiate a peace thru Russian intermitteraries. The Fire bombs that the US used actually caused a lot more damage than the continued use of the A-Bombs could have and also led to far less civilian deaths.

Also the abrupt surrender of Japan also left the Nationalist Chinese open, disorganized, and unprepared when Communist China attacked. Nationalist China was still organized and positioned to the east to fight against Japan, not internally in the West and North to fight against Communist China. Made it a lot easier for the Communists to gain vast tracks of territory.

It wasn't a mistake because it saved the lives of Allied and Japanese. Also because in war a commander has to do everything that is in his/her power to achieve victory.

You can even mention bring up some artocities that the Japanese Army has committed such as the Asian Holocaust, the Rape of Nanking, or the Bataan Death March to name a few.

Japanese Soldiers were also trained to spot the medic specificly and kill them first, because it'd would mean more deaths on the other side. They were also known to sneak into US camps and trenches at night and kidnap Marines. Next day, they would bring them to the front of the lines, and start hacking off limbs, taking out eyeballs, breaking bones, cutting off the testicles of Marines. All this to get fellow marines enraged enough to charge into Japanese range of fire.

Answer 2

After the 2ND atomic bomb was dropped, Truman order them to stop and he had to personnel give the order to drop another one. Only one thing wrong, there was no more nuclear material to build another bomb. Production of the necessary materials would take months to make.

I have viewed several answers that have stated Japan would fight to the end. Well at the time of the bombs, people of Japan were living on 700 calories or less. They were producing oil from plants, since there was none from outside the Japanese Islands. The US Navy had complete naval blockade around the Japanese. The Army Air Force bombed Japan at will since about April 1945. There was about 1 million Japanese soldiers in Manchuria at the end of the war. No way for them to get back.

Truman did not want Stalin to enter the war and to put him on notice. This was a secondary reason. His first concern was saving the lives of the United States. However, estimated number of casualties comes from a article of 1946 edition of "Look" or "Saturday Evening Post" I can't remember which. High ranking government officials dropped estimates of over 100,000 casualties and allot more wounded. These high estimates as become the mind set of the US then and now. The record shows that before the bombs were dropped, casualties were estimated around 30,000 for invasion. A far cry from what was publicly printed by the magazines.

One must remember that Truman did not know about the bomb until after FDR died. He relied heavyly on FDR war cabinet. Fot the military, the A bomb was another weapon to be used. Has someone else mentioned B-29s were carpet bombing Japan with incinerary bombs, killing hunderds of thousands.

I could go on, but won't. Just one last remark. Most Americans today think the A bomb ended the war. Well I take issue with that. Allot of brave soldiers died in the South Pacific. They and all the other soldiers paved and made for victory in the Pacific. My Dad was one of them.

Answer 3

Truman was a haberdasher (hat vendor) by trade. He was basically an idiot. It is amazing he was the Vice President. He hated the French. He called them "Frogs". He loved the Jews. He is responsible for the creation of Israel. A Jewish statesmen claimed that Harry Truman was created by God to create Israel. He also hated the Japanese during WWII. He should never have used the bomb. Eisenhower later said it was a mistake. Curtis LeMay of the U.S. Air Force had firebombed Tokyo with B29s at low altitude for months. Practically all of Japan was destroyed because it was built out of wood and bamboo. The Japanese tried negotiating surrender through Stalin. They insisted they be allowed to keep their emperor. Truman said no way. He nuked them twice. The Japanese surrendered and kept their emperor. It was a mistake to nuke them.

Answer 4

Truman was in support of the bomb. He felt he had something to prove to the rest of the world, especially since the creation of the bomb was finished in the middle of the Potsdam Conference. To be fair, without the bomb there would have been a great loss of human lfe because the Japanese fought to the death.

Answer 5

Truman did not order the atomic bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki out of revenge. He did so, with heavy heart, because it was the best option. When presented with the massive number of projected casualties the U.S. military would incur to invade the Japanese mainland, he really had no other realistic choice. If he didn't do so, many hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops would have lost their lives.

Answer 6

truman thought that the atomic bomb was the best action toward Japan. he thought it was a way of revenge and solving things. he offered Japan a treaty thing and then Japan didnt really think that Truman would bomb them. so japan refused and truman said okay lets bomb them.

so basically truman thought it was the best thing to do.

Answer 7

Check out his site:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/index.php