Did Japan DESERVE to be NUKED in WWII?

Answer 1

Study your history, not the media... One factor which helped make the decision to use the Atomic (not nuclear) bomb was the Invasion of Okinawa in April 1945. Okinawa was the first island in the chain of islands leading to the mainland Japan. 12,000 US troops were killed and 36,000 US troops were wounded. Using this model it was estimated that an invasion of the mainland would have cost 1 million US casualties...

Answer 2

You may want to do more research on why Japan went to war in the first place and what was their ideas about surrendering to the allies. The heads of the U.S. government and military, along with our allies, had to weigh out the cost in human lives of dropping such devastating bombs or invading the home islands of Japan to finish the war. I believe you will find that the choice to go nuclear was made because these leaders felt the number of lives taken (on both sides) would be fewer with the nuclear option. The A-bombs actually saved more lives than they took, and the war was quickly brought to an end. War is very ugly. Imagine if the choices you made on a given day would effect hundreds of thousands of lives. These choices were not easy to make. Thankfully now, the United States has very good relations with Japan. Our countries have learned to live in peace and to work together for the good of both countries.

Answer 3

We are fighting a war in Iraq due to these types of weapons and people are saying how necessary they were to end a war with Japan. No wonder Iran is looking to get a hold of some. An invaison of Japan was never necessary. They would have surrendered eventually-for god's sake the japanese soldiers were eating their dead because the empire no longer supplied them. They banked on the fact that the U.S. could not logistically support a war effort on two fronts on opposite sides of the globe, unfortunately they were wrong. Germany fell before the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Hirohito's attempt at surrender was refused by his advisors. They wouldn't let him disgrace himself that way. You're an idiot if you think the death of large numbers of civilians is a requirement to win a war. It's painfully obvious that most of you people have no concept of what the American Revolution stood for or the ideals forged as a result.

Answer 4

If we look at this objectively and soberly, what is the difference between getting nuked and being a victim of other bombing attacks?

The firebombing of Tokyo caused over 100,000 deaths, arguably more than either atomic bomb.

At that time, nobody understood exactly what would happen with those bombs or the level of damage they'd cause. As for morality, when you're killing tens of thousands of people in bombing attacks anyway, what does it matter if it is 200 planes dropping 1,000's of bombs or if it is 1 plane dropping 1 bomb, if the result is the same?

Deserve is perhaps the wrong word here. It was necessary to prevent even greater death and destruction. They prevented the necessity of a US invasion, which would have most likely resulted in excess of 5 million casualties, most of those Japanese.

Answer 5

Think about it if we hadn't nuked Japan some other country would have developed a bomb and used it. Since we used it in WWII no one has used one in a war. Everyone saw how truly devastating it was and that kept the pressure up to hold it in reserve as a weapon of last resort. I think more Japanese lives where saved by dropping the bomb than by letting the war drag on.

Answer 6

Nope, Japan did not derverved to be NUKED , it was already surrendering. US and Japaneses official were already talking the unconditional surrender of Japan In China. Recently the US government released WW II secret documents affirming that the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki just to scare the RUSSIANS..

As well 2 days after Japan completely surrendered the US bombed and burned Okinawa , killing 10 000 civilian people: Okinawa is the actual military base of the US in Japan

Essentially Hiroshima and nagasaki were NUKED there because it had a FRESH CIVILIAN population there,,. NUKING TOKYO would had been obsolete.. Tokyo was alread destroyed and burned by conventional bombs...

Nice Americans, it even advertised AFTERWARD that the RADIATIONs in Hiroshima were not HARMFUL!...( you can still find the ads!)

Answer 7

Japan may have deserved it by starting a war, but the United States, by dropping those bombs, started a horrible chain of events that continues to haunt Americans and all human since 1945 up through today and into the future.
Some punishments or acts of revenge are not justifiable. Some admissions of error are absolutely necessary for the healing process to begin.

Answer 8

Not sure it was so much a matter of DESERVING to be bombed, rather it was more a matter of the political and military decision to use the bomb in hopes of forcing an end to the war before we had to invade the Japanese mainland, with all the casualties on both sides.

Estimates of casualties from an invasion of the Japanese homeland went well into the millions -- as opposed to the A-bombs which killed tens-of-thousands and convinced the Japanese that the war was no longer winnable.

President Truman had a tough decision to make there -- one that will be second-guessed forevermore. What would your decision have been, given the same information?

Answer 9

Yes .... in a way it was a favor to them. At the end of the war Japan had virtually no defensive capabilities at all .. our planes flew daily over the island dropping countless bombs killing countless people but the idiots would not give up .. their Emperor, who at the time was considered all but a god on earth, was showing no signs at all of capitulation. At the rate it was going someone said (I forget who) that within months there would not be two boards left nailed together on the entire island. It took an almost god-like display of horror to make them surrender and most agree that the nuking, in the end, saved many many lives.

Answer 10

Deserve No, but Pearl Harbor did not deserve the attack either. As stated numerous times, the Japanese refused to surrender, you can see this in the numerous battles in the pacific. Had the bombs not been dropped the Japanese people would have fought until they were totally extinct. If there is anyplace in the world that deserves to be nuked it would have to be Iran.

Answer 11

YES, Japan Deserved to be Nuked.
Any person that says that Japan did not deserve to be NUKED, does not know what they are talking about. Japan started the war.
It would have cost more than ONE MILLION American lives to invade Japan if they did not use the BOMB.

Any person that does not believe this, should study about it.