why did the americans drop the 1st atom bomb ?

Question

why?why? why? was the atomic bomb dropped on nagasaki n hiroshima? was it to end the war with japan? or was it used as an goverment experiment on the japanese people ?

Answer 1

it was used to end the war . if the Japanese military had been successful in their attempt to stop the emperor from surrendering the war would not have ended after the second one was dropped.

Answer 2

A bunch of reasons:

1.We did it because we had it first. If the Germans had gotten it first, they would obviously be the first one to drop it.

2.It was for scientific (extremely inhumane and sad) purposes to see the actuall effects of an actual atomic bomb in practice. Remember, before this all we had was theory. No one really knew what was really going to happen. Some thought, it will unbalance the nature's cycle sooooo much that it might destroy the entire planet.

3.It was to demonstrate to the world how powerful we are and what dangerous weapons we have which we can drop anywhere at any time. So basically another way to blackmail everyone in the world.

Being an American scientist, none of these obviously justify what we did. It is obvious that our goal is not to spread peace, justice, and democracy becaue we have shown clearly to the world with our actions again and again, that all of those things go right out of the window when we need something and when we have something to gain by wiping out two entire cities full of civilians in two days...and then justifying it as a necessity.

Answer 3

Please.Please.Please. It was done to end the War with Japan. The Japanese lived by an entirely different Code than we do - very similar to the terrorists of today. They were fully prepared to die, or kill themselves, to save their country from US.
Dropping the first bomb didn't make a large enough impression - hence, the necessity for the second. It destroyed President Truman to do it. Why do you think he didn't run for another term?
Many projections were prepared estimating just how many (more) of our GI's would be killed if we were forced to invade the Home Islands. The island hopping fighting in the Pacific was the most horrific experience you can imagine. Multiply it exponentially by 10 and that's what you'd get if you went to the Home Islands.

Answer 4

It was to end the war. When the Japanese refused to surrender after the bomb on Hiroshima, they were told, hey we should continue to fight... Then the 3 days after Hiroshima, the US dropped the bomb on Nagasaki.

It was to end the war. No one had any idea what it would do to people.

Answer 5

Because at the time Truman had two options to stop the war. One option involved with a land invasion of Japan, which could potentially get thousands of American men killed. The other option was to use the atom bomb, to get the Japanese to finally stop.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the time had really big manufacturing facilities for building military equipment, ships, logistics, etc...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki

Answer 6

Wrong, Timothy, Truman did tell Stalin about the new weapon at Yalta. He was surprised Stalin seemed uninterested, but the Soviets already knew through espionage what was happening. Some great friend. Knowing what we now know about Stalin, wouldn't it have been naive to trust an admittedly valuable ally but a monstrous human being with everything?

It was not to scare Russia, but bring a quick end to a war with Japan with would have been a long, terrible war of attrition by conventional methods.

Answer 7

It was dropped on Hiroshima. And I've wondered the same thing myself. There were military targets available. We didn't have to drop it on a civilian target. The war ended shortly after we bombedd Nagasaki (3 days later). The Gov said they did it to end the loss of our soldiers/sailors.

Our involvement began when they bombed one of our military targets, and ended when we bombed one of their civilian targets.

Answer 8

We would have invaded Japan. And knowing the entire Bushido stuff that Japan follows, we would literally have to kill every single person in Japan in order to finally defeat it (victory or death). Likewise, we would have lost a large amount of marines while doing so. We would also have probably called a bunch of European soldiers to start fighting in the Pacific. It would be that bad.

Furthermore, evidence had it that Japan was going to strike San Fransisco with a nuclear device of it's own, which was supplied by Germany.

Answer 9

the 1st few questions are responded above, so i'm going to easily answer the final one. the only way Japan might have surrendered grow to be if the individuals dropped the bomb or invaded mainland Japan. that they had plans for an invasion of Japan yet calculated allied casualties to be interior the tens of millions and eastern casualties (which incorporate civilian casualties) to be in hundreds of hundreds. consequently via dropping the bomb, they saved tens of millions of the two Allied and eastern lives.

Answer 10

The way I got it the government and the American people had been at war for 4 years lost millions of people and were looking at losing another estimated million fighting from island to island to take Japan.The reason was to end the war with a minimum loss of American life.