May it ever be worth while? It did provide a K.O. but the damage which it dealt out!
2006-12-08 23:42:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
why did the 200 japanese planes ever be attack pearl harbor.
2006-12-09 02:12:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was a war and the United States was trying to win. Truman believed this would garner a surrender from Japan and shorten the war by an estimated 5 years. We will never know if he was correct on the time estimate, or number of lives saved, but he was absolutely correct on the surrender front. The thing that has always troubled me most about the use of the bombs was this. Why after seeing the devastation wrought by the first bomb did the Japanese High Command make it necessary to use a second and thus extend the suffering of their people? I do believe using these weapons served a purpose in support of history. The world got to see what would happen on a limited scale. If Nagasaki and Hiroshima had never happened I think it is highly likely that we would have had a larger nuclear exchange between the superpowers at a later date with much greater devastation and loss of life.
2006-12-09 08:02:32 · answer #2 · answered by Bryan 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have been asking this question of my self for many a years.
The most logical answer I received to this was quite recently by a young man whom currently is studying the history on this matter, and was also perplexed at the subject.
However; here is his answer:
Japanese have "honor" as a tradition.
They were fighting as they did, even creating such atrocities as they did in China and elsewhere at that time, because they were told it was within their honor and that of the Emperor and the mother land and they trully believed this.
No bullets, no defeats in battle were ever going to be enough to stop those soldiers "fed on honor".
They even happily "kamikazeed" them selves on their enemy.
Now, when you hit their homeland with such a force, such a devastation, is where now they realized there would be no honor anymore, because there would be no home, no Emperor no family to honor, no Country left, then they surrendered.
Sad enough, but true.
The damage it dealt, was and still is devastating, to say the least.
God will surely have to be the only true judge of the Japanese and the rest when the time does come.
Let us pray that we in our life time and definitely not in the future, will ever have to be faced with such a decision or commit again such an action.
2006-12-09 08:06:39 · answer #3 · answered by dorianalways 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because according to all the factual data available at the time, the alternative was much worse. Looking back on it now with 20-20 hindsight, it is still obvious that the alternative was much worse. Dropping the bombs destroyed two massive military installations, let the Japanese know in no uncertain terms that they had to surrender or face the complete destruction of their homeland, and it let the Russians know that we had it and were willing to use it (we didn't trust them at the time).
When all was said & done the joke was on them, because those two bombs were our entire atomic arsenal at the time ... we had no more aces up our collective sleeve. It was the world's greatest bluff, and it worked - giving us time to build up a serious atomic weapons program and preventing WWIII from being anything more than a scary thought.
2006-12-09 07:50:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
They were launched to try to end the war before Russia became involved and thus earned a position in the rebuilding ( can you imagine East Tokyo and West Tokyo with a wall?), to demonstarte to Russia that we had the bomb and its distructive potential, and last and least to avoid the carnage of an invasion agasint an enemy with the stones to fight to the last man.
2006-12-09 07:56:19 · answer #5 · answered by Zarathustra 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
To win and end the war. Yes it was worth it because it was a choice between the bombs or an invasion of the mainland.
2006-12-09 08:50:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The bombs were dropped out of revenge for Pearl Harbor. The Japanese were already beaten long before the bombs were dropped. The Japanese were committing suicide because they didn't want to be prisoners of the US, because they felt that they would be cruel because of Pearl Harbor attack.
2006-12-09 08:49:13 · answer #7 · answered by King Midas 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They were dropped for two reasons- 1-Truman believed it would end the war----which it did, and 2- He was told. probably quite truthfully, that doing so would save thousands of American lives.
2006-12-09 07:56:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Try reading History Books .... .Those bombs saved millions of lives and the entire free world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-09 07:48:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they were used to get japan to surrender we need to get rid a them things world wide
2006-12-09 07:45:22 · answer #10 · answered by scooprandell 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋