Because they used the Bozoy Bone instead. Germany had surrendered before the atomic bomb was actually ready.
2006-11-18 12:14:00
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answer #1
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answered by stevewbcanada 6
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The Allies(USA,Britain,France,Greece,Aust,basically everyone) forced the Axis Powers(Italy,Germany) into armstice prior to the bomb being ready. Japan was last to surrender. The reasoning behind bombing Japan was to save American lives, and the estimate of deaths was too high considering the alternative. Also, America only had 2 bombs and wanted to make it seem like they had a whole aresenal and that was the reason they dropped them in quick succession. This was a massive secret at the time, and Japan may still have not surrendered if they knew this.
Regarding the German atomic bomb program. Depending on your stance, thank your lucky stars that the head German Scientist got his calculation wrong regarding the fissionable material required for a bomb as they were well advanced of the Allies for the fist atomic bomb, and this was what spurned The Manhatten Project, paranoia nothing else. I'm not looking it up, but from memory (I think his name was Oppenheimer) the head scientist had calculated there was not enough fissionable material in the world to make a bomb work, and lesser scientists could not tell him otherwise, as they had no say etc...Germans would have had it first. There was a comment in earlier answers about The Manhatten Project being spearheaded by stolen German plan or defected German scientists - I thinks this is also fact from memory, but can't be bothered checking. (-:
History will show, with or without the bombs, the Allies would have won war, and the decision to bomb Japan was a hard one, but with the applied tacticvs I mentioned earlier, saved a lot of lives and forcing the final surrender of the last remaining Axis member.
2006-11-18 21:59:58
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answered by 67ImpalaSS 3
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Because Roosevelt decided to concentrate on defeating Germany first. Why? Because Britain was right next door to Europe, while Japan is thousands of miles away over an ocean. While the U.S. was building up the army necessary to defeat Germany, the navy could weaken Japan's economic ability to wage war. Actually, the war in the Pacific went better than Roosevelt ever dreamed that it would, so that by the time the army was ready to invade, the army was on Japan's doorstep. That the atomy bone had been developed was coincidental, and yes, conventional bombing killed hundreds of thousands more people in Germany and Japan than both Atomy bones combined did.
2006-11-18 21:12:52
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answered by Dr_Adam_Bricker 3
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The Atomy Bone wasn't ready until August 1945. Germany surrendered in May. Does this make sense to you?
2006-11-18 21:30:35
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answered by Bullwinkle Moose 6
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As a matter of fact, the USA did not defeat Germany. An alliance of nations, including Britain, France, Poland, Russia, and many other nations did. What do you mean "atomy bone"?
2006-11-18 20:18:48
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answered by The Gadfly 5
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when hitler decided to commit his troops to the easten front as well as the westen front, it was the beginning of the end for the german army. also by aligning himself with the japanese, thus the bombing of pearl harbour brought the full might of the USA and it's allies to bear upon germany. until the bombing of pearl harbour, the US was content to supply the brit's with hardware and keep a close eye on precedings and progress of england against the hun'. once the us was in the war and the normandy landings occurred it was only a matter of time that germany could not keep up a full scale war on two fronts. the us even had a fighting unit of american japanese that were living in the us when the war broke out and apparently they fought very furiously for the us and it's allies in the theatre in Europe, they did not fight in the pacific. Thus when the bomb was ready to be dropped, there was no need in europe as germany was done for and the US and Russians were already dividing up the spoils. The japs on the other hand did not think like us and they would have fought to the very last even though their supremecy was long over and US bomber's were bombing the hell out of japan as the allies got closer and closer. In the end they allowed the emperour to call off the fighting as he would not allow his people to fight any more against such a cruel enemy as the united states. yeah''',right buddy, you do that. So i may have missed placed a few events but thats how it basically happened.
2006-11-18 21:32:28
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answered by brett l 1
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The Atomy Bone (I like the expression!) was always the weapon of last resort. (Still is, of course.) Germany was defeated without it, and possibly because of American racism, might not have been nuked even if the a-bomb was ready in time.
As it was, German was defeated with conventional arms. As someone stated before me, to invade Japan would have cost millions of lives, both Japanese and American, and the availability of the bomb saved those loves while sacrificing 100,000 others.
Don't think President Truman and the Allies didn't debate the bomb; they certainly did. It was not an easy decision to make, although Japanese atrocities committed against American soldiers and others unfortunate enough to fall behind the lines make it an easier decision than to nuke the Germans night have been (not that they were any better: it's also the racism of the times that made killing the Japanese easier to do).
2006-11-18 19:09:32
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answered by Bryce 7
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The answer to this is simple, the atom bomb was actually developed by captured German scientists and Pysicists in the same way Americas space program was developed.
America and her allies actually dropped some much ordnance on cities like Dresden that you could be forgiven for thinking they had been atomy boned.
Round the clock raids by allied Bombers against an ever diminishing enemy gave the allies free reign to bomb Germany back to the stone age which they did in no short order.
Do not be misled though the germans were no pushover and the fighting in the streets of Berlin was fierce, heavy and without quarter, it was only the suicide of the Fuhrer that stopped Germany Fighting otherwise they would have gone down to the last man.
2006-11-18 20:03:09
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answered by Anonymous
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Ever since the Civil War the trump card was attrition. Many may speculate on the fact that Germany put jets in the sky before anyone, had effective guided missiles, generally a better disciplined army, made better precision tooling and had superior sub-machine guns but it was short on resources. This is why the North Africa Campaign was so important.
America could supply both England and Russia, and had the ability to take advantage of Jews and other European scientists that fled the German onslought.
2006-11-18 21:09:45
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answered by namazanyc 4
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they took the atomy bone and beat the Nazis into submission. a little known secret is while the allies where in Africa beating up on gen. Rommel they (the allies) acquired a great deal of atomy bones
which few know, come from the lower extremities of a rare animal in Africa which, since they are endangered. i won't tell.
the use of the atomy bone proved such a success that there
is a huge arsenal of them still stored, in case of future conflicts
with a European country. it is thought they are stored in
Oxnard, California in a u-haul storage facility (air conditioned, of course).
2006-11-18 19:03:13
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answered by barrbou214 6
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