If you are to decide whether or not drop the bomb on Hiroshima during WWII...?

Question

Will you give go ahead or not to go with it. Give supports to your decision.

Answer 1

I watched this documentary from NG the other day. Just after Russians had declared war on Japan, It was known that the Americans and its Allies had already warned the Japanese to surrender or to face severe consequence. By that time the Americans had already near full control of the air space above Japan. Japan's military leadership had chosen to die to surrender. But it was the poor Japan civilians pay for the bad decision. In fact they (the Japanese military leaders) was not convinced to surrender even after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima until the 2nd bomb came down. With this type of attitude (to die rather to surrender) only a really devastating blow to their confidence, in this case nothing less than a mass destructing bomb, can convince them they have to surrender and or be blown off this world. I will give a go ahead too if I am the decision maker.

Answer 2

It's true we lost the moral high ground after use of the nukes on Japan, but looking at what Truman faced in 1945, i probably would've done the same thing. To compare the moral depravity of state sponsored genocide where the death ovens at Aushwitz/Birkenau were topping out at 2,600 per day or 80,000 killed per month and the aerial bombardment of civilians is looking at different scales.

The "Final Solution" was the policy of only one country during the last century, and it wasn't the U.S. My beef is with the multi-national business cartels that allowed it to happen, the top being IG Farben (now BASF, Bayer, among others).

Not only did they finance Adolf, they supplied him with Zyclon B for use in the death camps. The American side of the company was not tried at Nuremburg, although they were just as culpable, go figure.

The fire bombing of Dresden by the 8th Air Force and RAF Bomber Command, caused the destruction of 15 square kms including 14,000 homes, 72 schools, 22 hospitals, 18 churches, etc. with a conservative estimate of around 30,000 civilians killed. At the time, the Germans used it as propaganda to advocate against following the Geneva conventions and to attack people's perception of the Allies claim to absolute moral superiority. The military claimed the railroad center was a military target, which it was, altho it was up and running a week later. Feb 1945 was only 3 months away from May 1945 (end of the Euopean war), the outcome of the war was not in doubt, so why bomb a 'cultural' medieval city of 600,000?

The firebombing of Dresden and nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes, genocide should also include civilian victims of aerial bombardment. Even after saying this, i still don't think the Allies were close to the moral depravity of the Nazis and their wholesale holocaust of the Euopean Jews.

The bombing of civilians is a great tragedy, none can deny. It is not so much this or the other means of making war that is immoral or inhumane. What is immoral is war itself. Once full-scale war has broken out it can never be humanized or civilized, and if one side attempted to do so it would be most likely to be defeated.

Answer 3

Yes i give the go ahead. Remeber we are judging AFTER THE FACT...that is we know the results. Its difficult to put that out of your mind when making a decision. However the decision to drop the bomb was the correct one. it ended the war swiftly. It prevented the Soviets from gaining a foothold in Japan (something they wanted badly) and it saved probably a million Allied casulties. The japanese would have fought inch by inch, street by street to defend thier homeland. In fact plans existed that in the event Japan was captured the Royal family would be evacuated to China (where Japan had a million men) and they would continue fighting from there. Had we not dropped the bomb the war could have dragged on another 2 or 3 years. It acomplished the goal. It ended the war and minimized our casulties.

Answer 4

LOL it rather is the subject count that my sister and that i've got been arguing approximately. could US dropped the bomb on the two cities?? For me particular, I stay in Malaysia and in WWII Japan drove away British and conquered Malaysia (it replaced into no called Malaysia lower back then, it replaced into some thing Malay Land or some thing). human beings then theory that it replaced into sturdy somebody drove the British away. Japan parade is the motto Asia for Asia, so we've been extremely joyful for a at the same time as. even though it grew to become up that Japan is worse that the British. British in basic terms colonized Malaysia and easily needed spices and tin, the eastern had to regulate each and every thing from Language, distant places money, government etc. additionally they made chinese language immigrants in Malaysia to pay 50 million to the eastern government as a good for China attacking them. think of 50million 50 years in the past, that's an insane quantity. existence replaced into hell while the eastern took over. human beings cant pass out to farm or threat being shot, cant pass out to music or get threat being bombed. With all of that taking place, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, stopped it and eastern surrendered. Even now some veterans of the conflict nevertheless hate eastern products. So i think of the bombing replaced into some thing that had to be carried out.

Answer 5

Ok

I am at war with a viscious and cruel enemy who has killed and tortured their way across half of asia, and along the way commited some horrendous acts of barbarity.

Many of my good young men and women are dead and as we fight closer to the Japanese homeland the fighting gets harder.

The Japanese do not surrender, they fight to the death. Its their twisted code of honour. They are now sinking my ships by suicide attacks in planes and all my advisors tell me that the next step which is an invasion of the mainland will cost at least 2 Million military lives, plus at least the same number again of civilians.

Or I can drop one of the new bombs that the scientists have made in the hope that it will shock the Japanese into giving up. The effects will be to wipe out a city, but will potentially save millions of lives by ending the war.

Drop the bomb.....................

Answer 6

Drop.

The Japanese were planning national sucide and were a medieval society armed with modern technology. And the miltiary were in total control. The tension internal to Japan had to be broken somehow and the awesome distructive power of the ABombs gave the Emperior enough gumption to finally exert himeself.

Estimates at the time were there at least 500,000 US soldier would die in conventional warfare on Japanese soil and millions of Japanese civilians who the Japanese military had armed with things like spears.

It was the best way out of the situation.

Answer 7

I've been to Nagasaki and seen the devastation this bomb wrought. I still would drop it. The estimate for the invasion of Japan was 1 million dead. They would have fought to the last man in Japan, just as they did on every island in the Pacific. It took TWO A-bombs to convince them to surrender! It's a crap choice, but the lesser of two evils.

Answer 8

I would definitely have used them. If the atomic bombs were not dropped on Japan millions of both Japanese and Americans would have died in the invasion of Japan. For every life the bomb took it saved almost 10-15 others.

Answer 9

If the Japanese wouldn't want too be bombed at Hiroshima or Nagasaki.....then they shouldn't have started the war with America in the first place far as i am concerned it was pay back for peal for the Bataan death march for wake and for every thing they did.....

Only sorry we didn't hang the emperor for war crimes!

Answer 10

I would drop it...

Japenese showed they would rather die than to surrender. When the war was all but lost for them and the Americans where moving in on Japan the Japenese military began using old planes and Kamakazi pilots. Let us also remeber we had to drop to nukes to get them to surrender then (Nagasaki), We didnt start the war with Japan, why should more American lives be sacrificed.