Was it really necessary to dropped Atomic bomb to Hiroshima ?What is your opinion?

Question

Some people said President Truman was wrong ,but I think he made a difficult but correct decision.

If answer is no,please explain why /

Answer 1

Hindsight is 20/20. At the point when the US dropped the bombs, over 60+ Million people had lost their lives. So for the planners who dropped the bomb, the present tense was a lot more important than thinking about what people in the future would think of their actions. How could they know what would happen if they didn't drop the bombs? The US was in the process of stopping Japan's ability to participate in war by destroying it's war manufacturing and attacking civilian centers. The attacks on civilian targets were horrible, but had the goal of stopping the war by stopping Japan's will to fight. This wasn't about tit for tat, you hurt us, now we are going to hurt you. It was about stopping the war, (this point of view is born out by the way the US treated Japan after the war. It's hard to image the modern Japan without first destroying the system that caused them to start the war in the first place). The Japanese government took a lot of persuasion before they finally agreed to stop. First the US told them what was coming and they didn't act. The first bomb was dropped and they didn't act. It took the second bomb to show that they were in a indefensible position. The Russian entrance into the war with Japan at that time also helped to convince the Japanese it was time to stop but it's hard to calculate if that would have been enough to get Japan to stop.

Answer 2

I think that it was necessary because not only did the atom bomb improve the technology of the world as a whole it also led to the decrease of all out wars and to better ways to make diplomatic decisions rather than put together 2nd rate treaties like Versailles. Because you knew if you did something wrong there might be a nuclear weapon in the future. The Bombings also made the invasion of Japan unnecessary. The Japanese where ready to wipe themselves out if an American set foot on their territory. Without the nuclear weapon many other world wars might have started. The environment would be in worse shape than it is now because nuclear power plants do not exist and we would have a lower standard of living due to the ongoing wars. But with the nuclear weapon comes some responsibility and moral issues that we cannot face at this day and age. Using the nuclear weapon out of the required time frame is also a suicide note for most countries anyway. Aha U.N. sanctions take that N. Korea watch yourself Iran, hey Pakistan don't make us embargo you. you get what I mean. Plus more people have been killed by the feeble sword than a nuclear weapon.

Answer 3

NO nothing is ever Necessary - - - there are always alternative choices - - in fact many high ranking officers would have been happy prolonging the war another year or so. There is always the argument that the bomb could have been dropped someplace where it would have 'scared' the Japanese without unleashing 'atomic horror.' But the 40's were a time when people DID and then stopped to say, "uh, what did we do." I agree, President Truman made a brave resolute decision that shorten the war considerably.

Answer 4

Dropping the bomb wasn't an easy decision for Truman. I've read through a lot of the answers here and they really are good ones. The war would have dragged on. Japan would have eventually lost the war, but at what cost to the U.S.? Truman had no choice but to give the go ahead.

Answer 5

The argument is that Japan was on its knees already and about to lose the war. Probably true, but they would have fought till the last man and the additional victims of the war would have run into the hundreds of thousands.
Truman made the right decision and if it were not for that correct decision, the fathers or grandfathers of a lot of people who are on Y!A today would have died and they would never have been born.
Be grateful that this great President had the moral courage to do what he did.

Answer 6

Yes because the United States wanted to end the war as soon as possible. The fact that he dropped the bomb kept the USSR out of Japan. If the USSR would have gotten to fight in Japan instead of just Manchuria it is very likely that Japan would be split the same way the Korea is split. Based simply on that I would say it was a good thing.

Answer 7

Yes because it was either that or do a full scale invasion (like other posters have suggested). A full-scale invasion would kill more civillians than the A-Bomb. Mind you, that if we never dropped the bomb, the war would go on and we would've risked more lives of our servicemen. And to drop a bomb on Japan was not an easy decision for the president.

Answer 8

Correct ?Correct?
WOW!
Japanese estimates gave a combined total of 240,000
And god knows how many people have been effected indirectly from radiation ..Pregnancy complications and god knows what..
to date people live who suffer due to that bomb..

No wonder Laden people/CIA/Jews Bombed WTC..

US could have thrown the bomb,outside populated areas on some mountain or something to show the destruction of this new weapon..??
After bombing the first city was there actually an eed for second?
They could have easily used it on some battle front where troops were stationed...
One can only say US used those innocent civilians as "guinea pigs"

A sad story..How history would remember it is yet to be soon..So far it is remembered as one of the biggest "terror"attacks for most of people who are concerned..lets see how neutral historians remember it after a thousand yeas..

Answer 9

The Japanese were prepared to fight to the death, as they had in every other battle they faced the Americans in. Conservative estimates put the casualty rate at nearly 1 million Americans in the capture of Tokyo alone. The civilians were also preparing to fight to the death, so it is extremely feasible to say that millions of civilians would have died along with pretty much the entire japanese army. Most generals also estimated that even if we did capture the main island, a japanese insurgency would fight americans for at least ten years. Many lives, both Japanese and American, were saved by the dropping of the A-Bomb.

Answer 10

Yes. It's easy to criticize President Truman's decision today, but he saved a lot of American and Japanese lives, plus it demonstrated to the Soviets that we had the will and knowhow to use nuclear weapons, and that also saved lives.