why did america have to bomb japan with 2 atom bombs? is 1 not enough?

Question

they can say to japan to surrender first after the first bombing before the second bombing

Answer 1

The Japanese simply weren't convinced there would be a second drop, and refused to negoitate a surrender.

From the link below:
After the Hiroshima bombing, President Truman announced, "If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air the likes of which has never been seen on this earth." On August 8, 1945, leaflets were dropped and warnings were given to Japan by Radio Saipan.

Answer 2

Tragically, no, one wasn't enough. After the first bomb was dropped, despite the devistation, Japan refused to surrender.

The reasons are a little bit complicated, as they often are. When America had devolped the bomb, selected the targets, and had everything ready to go, they paused and offered Japan a surrender. There were conflicting elements in the U.S. camp, some who couldn't bear the thought of unleasing such a device, and some who believed that there was no other way forwards. The decision was made to give Japan one last chance to avert the tragedy, and they were offered a surrender which would allow them to save face in the hopes that it would convince them to take it.

The Japanese, however, misinturpreted it as a sign of weakness by the Americans and laughed in their faces. The U.S. felt that it was left with no other choice but to drop the first bomb.

Despite the huge destruction and devisation, it wasn't enough to convince Japan to surrender. Certain elements in the Japanese court saw it as a sign of weakness by the Americans, a last ditch attempt by a country on its knees. Combined with this, the idea of surrender was absolutly abhorant to the ruling Japanese mindset. Anything was better. Absolutly anything.

After the first bomb dropped, Japan was offered another surrender, and they again turned it down. Three days passed between the two bombs.

It was only when the second bomb dropped that they were made to face up to the reality of the situation, to the fact that they couldn't win and the U.S. would, if it had to, keep on dropping atomic bombs on Japan until there was nothing left.

Answer 3

Alright morons.

The Japanese had a 'no surrender' mentality. This stems from the history of the Samurai class. Americans who were POW's of the Japanese were treated like dogs because the Japanese considered them dishonored, and therefore not men.

The U.S. estimated that an amphibious invasion of mainland Japan (Honshu) would cost well over a million casualties on either side. This was based on the results of the invasion of Okinawa. The Japanese had rooted in Okinawa so hard, and there were very very few who surrendered. To give a comparison, the U.S. lost 300,000 KIA through the rest of the war.

The bombs killed around 300,000 (including those who died because of radiation).

The U.S. dropped the first bomb on 6 August 1945. The U.S. waited 2 more days for Japan to surrender. They did not. So on 9 August 1945 the U.S. dropped a second. The Japanese did not surrender until 15 August 1945.

In comparison, the Japanese atrocities in China are worth noting. The Rape of Nanking saw the deaths of well over a quarter of a million people. In all, 4 million Chinese met their death during the Japanese invasion of mainland China. So, the Japanese were not guiltless in that war.

I might also mention that the U.S. poured millions of dollars into rebuilding Japan (and Germany, and France, and Britain)....Money that has not been repaid to the U.S., nor is it expected to be repaid.

So, in conclusion, 300,000 deaths as opposed to 2 million. You make the choice. Maybe you should not be so apologetic and moronic in your statements. That goes for the questioner and many of those who answered.

Answer 4

This is because at the time of the bombings, the atomic bombs were extremely experimental and had never been tested. There was a fear that if they dropped only one and it did not work, Japan would be encouraged to fight even harder because the Americans were struggling with any experimental slim hopes to try to attack them. In fact, the US had only two bombs at the time as well, and did not have enough nuclear materials prepared to build any more until after the war.

Answer 5

Well, after Hiroshima the Japanese were gambling that the US had only one bomb like that, and were considering calling their bluff. Many of the generals were arguing for immediate unconditional surrender, but others wanted to fight on. After Nagasaki, there was no more question, and the Emporer was consulted. Although he usually made no impact of material affairs as such, having more say about how things should be conducted, an ascetic guru to the nation, seen as kind of intermediary between man and god, but he said that the time had come to to bear the unbearable, and surrender was imminent.

Incidentally over 30 000 Korean people who were kept in Nagasaki as slaves died in the bomb blast there, a little known fact (except to Koreans)

Answer 6

Please read your history - they did do just that. Japan did not respond and the war continued and people continued dying

The bombs were only dropped to stop a war that had killed many times those killed in both bombs. Indeed if the war had dragged on for six months the death toll would have been far, far higher.

Whilst Japan never tires of of presenting themselves as victims of the atomic bombs they fail to point out that they slaughtered mant times that number of innocent people. They machine gunned, men, women and children. Took patients out of hospitals, stood them against a wall and shot them.

Atom bombs are terrible but those two bombs saved many, many times more lives than they took.

Answer 7

It was not intened for Japans but to prove we had the bomb. We wanted to prove that we had the ablity to make and use the bomb more then once and that we weren't afraid to use the bomb on our enemies.

We, we could have used one, but the question woul dhva been if Japan would have beleived we would continue using the bomb on them and surrender or try to fight on thinking we wouldn't attack.

I was also a show for communisum to say we have it, and are able to use it anywhere in the world.

It wasn't the best way to introduce the bomb, and was hurtful and not the most diplomatic way to end the war, but it worked and we got our points across.

Answer 8

Apparently we had to prove we had more than one of them. That actually is a decent point. They did not stick around to see if we had three, which was a good thing, because we didn't.

Hard to say whether that move saved lives or not. A full scale invasion, which is what it would have taken to get a surrender, may well have taken many more lives, both Japanese and American, at the time.

It shortened the war, it make reconstruction possible more quickly, you tell me about the morality of the acts.

Oh, and you might notice. We didn't bomb Tokyo. Now think about why...

Answer 9

Because the Japanese, like today's terrorists, were true believers in a fatalistic religion that glorified martyrs as evidenced by over a dozen different means of suicide attack other than the kamikazes. Preparations, according to the History Channel, were under way for the common citizen to demonstrate his/her fanatical loyalty to the emperor by fighting for every inch of ground in Japan.

Instead, the first atomic strike at Hiroshima got the attention of Togo and Hirohito and the bombing of Nagasaki convinced them to sue for peace. It's believed 1-1.5 million American lives and perhaps 50 times that many Japanese lives were spared as a result of the two bombs ending the war earlier.

Answer 10

Hiroshima and Nagazakki were the two cities in japan bombed by america. one bomb is not enough for two cities. america is not such a moral state to ask for surrender and wait.