how come no one ever got convicted for crimes against humanity for Hiroshima or Nagasaki?

Question

After all we went after civilians. I mean Pearl Harbor was disgusting, but at least it was a military location

Sad to hear you justifying it why not do a warning shot over sea or something like that

Answer 1

An opinion was rendered in international courts to wit:

"in the light of international humanitarian law, it should be borne in mind that during the Second World War there was no agreement, treaty, convention or any other instrument governing the protection of the civilian population or civilian property, as the Conventions then in force dealt only with the protection of the wounded and the sick on the battlefield and in naval warfare, hospital ships, the laws and customs of war and the protection of prisoners of war"

At the time, "total war" meant the civilians on both sides faced indiscriminate aerial bombing, including incendiary attacks, nuclear attacks, and assaults on centers of culture/churches/schools, etc.

A change in the Geneva Conventions, beginning in 1949 were the results from the uproar of the fire bombing of Dresden, nuclear attacks on Japan, and other indiscriminate carpet bombing during WW II.

Therefore, in answer to your question, there were no specific treaties or conventions broken AT THE TIME of the bombings and therefore it was not a war crime, these prohibitions all came after the war.

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Answer 2

Nobody, including the Americans would have dropped so much as a firecracker on Japan had they not sowed the seeds of aggression across the Pacific. They had been in China / Korea, ET AL since about 1937, raping & looting, using the civilian population as nosiy playthings for their bayonets. Information available at the time suggested that nothing less than total superiority in victory would crack their will. (we are not talking about the weak undisciplined Americans of today here.)
They were also schooled not to give or accept mercy, and trained for total obligation to their cause. (think of their soldiers hiding still coming out of the Jungle in the 1960's!)
A warning shot would have been meaningless to them.


There is a sad and terrible possiblity that those killed at Hiroshima & Nagasaki are in some way martyrs that have given the world a graphic example of the sheer horror of nuclear weapons. There is no doubt that had the first ones not been used, there would have been temptation to use the later larger & more powerful fusion bombs in minor conflicts.

Answer 3

Because no crimes against humanity were commited at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

At the time of its bombing, Hiroshima was a city of considerable industrial and military significance. Even some military camps were located nearby, such as the headquarters of the Fifth Division and Field Marshal Shunroku Hata's 2nd General Army Headquarters, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan. Hiroshima was a minor supply and logistics base for the Japanese military. The city was a communications center, a storage point, and an assembly area for troops. It was one of several Japanese cities left deliberately untouched by American bombing, allowing an ideal environment to measure the damage caused by the atomic bomb. Another account stresses that after General Spaatz reported that Hiroshima was the only targeted city without prisoner of war (POW) camps, Washington decided to assign it highest priority.

The city of Nagasaki had been one of the largest sea ports in southern Japan and was of great wartime importance because of its wide-ranging industrial activity, including the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works and factories for the production of ordnance, ships, military equipment, and other war materials, and nearby coal mines.

It helps to learn your history before you form your opinions.

Answer 4

ok listin here, we had 3 options to defeat japan, 1. blokade the country so no food or medical supplys could get in, this would have resulted in an already starving country to not get any food and would have taken longer and killed more civilians. option 2. invade japan. this plan would have resulted in a very long and costly ground war which would have cost many american lives, and, seeing as every japanese civilian was told to fight to the death, would have also killed more civilians. option 3 of course was to drop an atomic bomb. we warned them we had an extremly powerful weapon, a few days later we hit hiroshima. the japanese still didnt surrender and we bombed nagasaki. as bad as it was it did cause the least death out of all the options.

Answer 5

all because it was seen as a justified sacrifice of sorts. The people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were less then the possible death toll had the war continued.

Not many agree with this but then again not many people agree with anything in war.

Just to point out i dont think you can justify that but if its what had to be done then unfortunately its what had to be done. I would of expected there would of been other less leathal options but we will never know about them due to the event that happened.

Answer 6

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Military-Industrial Targets.
It was necessary to bomb these 2 cities to end the war.
Doing otherwise, like a invasion, would of killed millions of japanese civillians, plus thousands of American Military
personnel. The two bombs saved millions of lives.

Answer 7

You ought read more history. I could go on forever but I doubt that a person who asks that simple a question would never admit that the Japs had it coming. It saved many American lives..I and many Americans feel no remorse for what transpired. There is no such thing as a fair fight. Do all that is necessary to finish it off.....I should feel sorry for some SOB's that would cut my throat and not even give it a second thought???? I think not.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

If the US hadn't dropped the bombs, millions of more lives would have been lost. It was the lesser of two evils.

Originally, the US was going to attempt to invade Japan. Had they followed through, millions of American soldiers and Japanese soldiers and civilians would have died.

Think about it. Would you rather have a few hundred thousand people die? Or a few million?

Answer 9

They probably could have if we were the ones that started the war that way. Japan was warned that they would be nuked if they didn't surrender, and they were too stubborn to. After they were bombed once, they were warned again and still didn't surrender. The cities were warned before the bombing, but they didn't evacuate because they refused to believe it was going to happen.

Answer 10

First of all the japanese also bombed hospitals during Pearl Harbor and that is against the Geneva Convention.

Second of all, we are the U.S.A, and we don't have to explain ourselves to anyone.