i ask americans about Hirshema and Nagazaki and 11/9 just to remrmber why the answers attack me?

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yes ihave no skills in english grammer and spelling .mother tongue is arabic lan. yahoo Q.A IS NOT CLASS OF ENGLISH!TO CORRECT please answer why usa used atomic bomb in 2nd war?

Answer 1

It was obvious the war was ending, but Truman made the decision to bomb to intimidate The USSR. An off shore bomb demo would have done the trick. The real rotten thing and there is no justification for it was the bombing of Nagasaki.Even if you buy into the idea that it was to bring the war to an end, you have to admit Hiroshima would have been enough. Dresden , Germany was totally fire bombed for the same reason. It was of no stratigic value, but it was on the route Russia was advancing on.

Answer 2

The USA government was told that over a million soldiers would die when the US forces invaded the mainland Japan by Gen MacArthur's Supreme Commander of Allied forces Pacific. The government could not have justified that many deaths or allowing the war to continue any longer than they had to the US citizens. Since the war in the Pacific was particularly brutal and savage they did not consider the number of Japanese causalities. After all the fire bombing of Tokyo had killed as many or more Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And there was a great deal of pure hatred, racism and fear of the Japanese that precluded any real thought about the consequences of dropping the bomb. There was so many factors but with those above include the possible belief that the bombs really weren't as powerful as the scientists said. We still have problems getting our heads around how destructive these weapons are and we have seen them action.

Answer 3

Short answer: to end the war quickly.

You can judge the decision from the perspective of 60+ years having passed, but you cannot exclude the situation facing Truman and his commanders in 1945. It very easy to second-guess with hindsight.

The reality was that the battles on the Pacific Islands of Iwo Jima, Okinawa and others close to Japan were so much more difficult, deadly and time-consuming than the Allied commanders had ever anticipated. The losses were 10X more than expected, and at least 5X longer in time.

As others have said, some estimates were given that an Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands would have required 1 million troops, and would have yielded as much as 10-20% Allied casualties. Such an invasion would have probably taken at least 6 months, perhaps one year to achieve Japan's surrender. Those numbers would have been extremely costly to both sides.

The decision use atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were made to convince the Japanese military and emperor to end the war sooner, than later. You must consider that decision in light of the facts available at that time.

Answer 4

You got your answer the last time.

The new bomb was used in order to end the war and save the estimated 2 million lives that would be lost in an invasion of the Japanese mainland.

Many more people were killed in normal bombing raids over Tokyo, London, Berlin, Dresden, Coventry, Singapore, Kobe etc in a bloody five year war that the Japanese helped start.

Secondly there is NO connection between World War 2 and 9/11, so why do you keep trying to make one?

Answer 5

At the time, we were fighting a DECLARED war against Japan and the alternative would have been sending infantry into the Japanese home islands. This would have resulted in several hundred thousand deaths on both sides. From a strategic standpoint, dropping atomic bombs and ending the war at that point actually SAVED countless lives.
Also, if we had not used the bomb, Japan itself would not exist, at least in its present form. Troops from the Soviet Union would have occupied northern japan, resulting in a division like that in Korea and Vieitnam.
My suggestion would be for you to find a good book on the history of the Second World War. My perception is that you do not understand the history of that era. Here is a good start:

http://www.answers.com/topic/world-war-ii

Answer 6

Your grammar and spelling aren't really what is important. There's a legitimate thought behind the wording of your question.

WW2 was declared, using the bomb seemed like a good idea at the time. It saved many more lives than cost even if it did take the lives of thousands of innocents.

In retrospect, it was a Pandora's box perhaps better left unopened.

It isn't really fair to compare that with 9/11. That was a terrorist attack upon innocent civilians that did nothing to provoke suck an act.

Answer 7

America was in a war in WWII where they were attacked by a country, Japan, who was attempting to take over large parts of the world. In the war, the US and Japan were losing large numbers of soldiers and civilians (especially Japan). The US had a weapon that undoubtedly would end the war. The choice to use the atomic bomb and kill all those people was an ethical one because to attempt to end the war with conventional weapons would have meant the loss of more life than was lost by the use of the atomic bomb.

Why is the US involved in the middle east? Radical elements of a religion, Islam, feel that their religion mandates that those who do not follow their tenants must be either brought under their religion or destroyed. Those people attacked the World Trade Center and other US interests all over the world. No civilized society can live with the threat of attack by others. You must react.

There is a solution to this problem. Adherents of the Islamic faith must realize that we all have a freedom of choice of religion. Elements of that religion that feel that force must be used on those who do not believe as they do must be brought under control. It must either be done by force, thus the invasion of Afghanistan, or by the rational people of that faith. I hope you can be part of the rational portion of that faith.

Answer 8

Atomic bombs were dropped to avoid the eventual invasion of the Japanese Islands. It was estimated that it would take millions of men and many months, if not years to get the Japanese to surrender unconditionally. It was also estimated that millions would die, on both sides because of an invasion.

The first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, but before the bombing the Japanese were warned that the US was going to drop one bomb on the city so powerful that it would destroy the entire city. The Japanes of course did not believe the US since destructive power of that magnitude had never before been seen from one bomb.

After that, the Japanese were again asked to surrender and they refused. Nagasaki was bombed. Tokyo was to be the next target, and Japan surrendered ending WWII.

I have heard there was some miss-communication in Tokyo between the two bombings and that they were going to surrender after Hiroshima was bombed, but for whatever reason the message never was sent to the US.

Answer 9

It was the only way to end the war quickly.

Conservative estimates at the time for an invasion of Japan were over 1,000,000 US casualties and several million dead Japanese. Do not forget that at that time, the Japanese Armies still controlled China and IndoChina, and that the Japanese use of kamakazi attacks did very heavy damage to the US fleets.

As horrible as it may have been (though was it any worse than the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo, or the Rape of Nanking?), the use of those bombs saved millions of lives. That alone makes it justified.

Answer 10

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