Take yourselves out of nationalistic pride a moment, and review the facts; the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki just to show that we had more than one over 75000 people killed.
Giving the bomb to the U.S.S.R. caused parody, the Bomb has never been used again. Think about it.
2006-11-30 11:21:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
To those who say we dropped the second bomb because Japan haddn't surrendered I would like to add the fact that Nagasaki was bombed just 3 days later. Not even accounting for the lack of comunication due to the electromagnetic pulse, it still wasn't sufficient time for the Japanese leadership to essess the damages to Hiroshimo, and respond accordingly.
2006-12-03 06:15:29 · update #1
It's not a dichotomy. You can believe both your propositions; traitors to US and heroes to humanity.
2006-11-30 11:33:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They were traitors to the U.S. and, like nearly all traitors throughout history, they had wrong and hugely inflated ideas of the effect that their actions might have, at least three times over.
One: if they hadn't done it, why should they think that nobody else would, or that the USSR didn't have other atomic spies of its own in place?
Two: why should they be so confident that, in a world where only the U.S. had the bomb, their pessimistic forecast of events would be correct? There are several other quite possible scenarios.
Three: they did not consider that their action might have the very result they wanted to avoid. The USSR would be no threat while atomically backward, but a possible candidate for a rash pre-emptive atomic strike from the U.S. if they were known to be catching up.
2006-12-01 05:03:00 · answer #2 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's definitely an interesting point that you bring up, but there was a fairly wide window for the US to use the bomb before Russia attained parity with the US in the 50's. I doubt that the bomb would have been used willy-nilly even if Russia had not had the bomb.
2006-12-01 01:12:22 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The United States dropped a second bomb on Japan because they had not surrended. The alternative was an invasion of the Japanese mainland which would have resulted in 1,000,000 casualties by estimates of the day.
The Bomb has never been used again by the grace of God. We came very close in Korea, Cuba and again in Viet Nam.
2006-11-30 19:31:54 · answer #4 · answered by Samuel Crow 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the bomb has not been used since Nagasaki, does not infer that it will never be used again.
Read or View....The Fog of War...focus on the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis....True, almost does not count....but, we came very close...ask Fidel Castro.
Are you really sure a Nuclear device will never be used, again?
2006-11-30 19:32:53 · answer #5 · answered by Mav 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Julius was a traitor but really ethyl just stood by her man..new evidence shows she wasn't the spy..also you cant be so revisionist. its easy to condemn the bomb now but back than it was different times.japan still didn't surrender after the first bomb..and forget about those people who claim racism was behind the a bomb.. the bomb was built by European refugees(many who were Jewish) who were worried that Hitler was working on the bomb. we would have dropped it on Germany had they not surrendered
2006-11-30 19:28:35 · answer #6 · answered by cat17 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That was this is now
2006-11-30 19:24:21 · answer #7 · answered by ianforty3 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋