Is this the real reason why US nuked Japan???

Question

I didn't write this one, it was an answer from one of my questions. And two people thumbs up it.

Here's the comment: "Actually it was a race, Japan was begging the U.S.A for surrender but we wanted to use the bomb to show USSR that we had developed it and the second dropping was to show USSR we wasnt afraid to use it. The war was well over when the bomb was dropped. Thats why USSR never invaded Japan for rthe fear of the bomb."

Answer 1

myabe!!!

Answer 2

In 1945 the Soviet Union was not seen as that much of a threat and certainly not technically advanced enough to produce a nuclear weapon. They had invaded Sakhalin Island, shared and contested by Russia and Japan, but only with ground troops. Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech wasn't until a year after the war was over.
There is some justification for the bombing of Hiroshima, in that it included some industrial infrastructure and had already been quite heavily bombed. Perhaps it was a way of putting the final boot in.
The real day that will live in infamy was the bombing of Nagasaki which had no industry and was virtually untouched. Imagine the minds and souls of people who could perpetrate this atrocity so that they could, in the aftermath, measure the devastation.

Answer 3

Hmm...I have never heard of Japan begging the US. What I do know is that the war dragged out further then the USSR could have become involved in the war and that would have forced the US to live up to some conditions (I honestly forgot what exactly but it definitely involved $$$) stipulated in earlier agreements made when US and USSR relations were a bit more amicable. Naturally the US take a questionable route to hasten the process and out themselves of any previous negotiations, whatever their reason for having been made at the time. Secondly though, was simply bragging rights. The ability to show that America had the big guns and would use them.

Answer 4

I have heard a similar theory, although not the part about Japanese begging to surrender. Just that the US didn't want a divided Japan as had already happened in Europe and Korea. Very plausible, probably even a factor in the decision to use the bombs. But I think the main reason was to avoid a bloody invasion of the Japanese home islands.

Answer 5

That is false. The Japanese were not about to surrender, and Truman would have had to land troops in Tokyo harbor before the war would end. That would have cost hundreds of thousands of American lives. Most people know that these are the facts, and the choice to use the bomb has never been debated.

Answer 6

I do know...that as small as Japan is....they tried to invade China!! along with invading Korea and other surrounding countries...I think that is why a lot of Korean and Japanese words are very similar