did the united states warn the japanese before using nuclear weapons?

Answer 1

Yes, they dropped leaflets from the air warning everyone what was about to happen and telling them to surrender, but no one believed it until it happened.

Answer 2

Depends on your source. Many people believe that the US dropped leaflets on the cities before they were attacked to warn the inhabitants but this fact is disputed. It is also said that the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki was not actually intended for that city, but another city. The Americans had secondary and tertiary targets for their bombers if conditions did not allow a bomb run over the primary targets. Did they drop leaflets over all the targets?? If you picked up a leaflet warning you af an attack, would you stay like the residents of these cities did?? It all points to a no warning attack. President Truman did announce the attack, but would this announcement have made it to the people in the cities?? The cities had not been bombed before, where they being kept in pristine condition for the experiment? The short answer would be no effective warning given.

And how petty are the people pulling you on the nuclear/atom bomb thing. Get a life people!

Answer 3

Where did you guys take physics? We have a stockpile of Nuclear (new-klee-ehr) weapons, some fission, some fusion. The nuclear weapons dropped on Japan were both fission types, one used enriched U-238 (U-235) in a gun type device (Little Boy), the other utilized refined Plutonium in an implosion system (Fat Man). The fusion weapons use a fission device to initiate the fusion reaction within the Tritium Duterium mix, so are really two devices in one.

Answer 4

Atomic not nuclear bombs.
In war you do not warn your enemy of pending attacks of any kind.
Let us remember, Japan started the war with a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
The choice to drop the "A" bomb was after calculating that attacking the home island of Japan would cause approximatly 100,000 to 500,000 deaths to both Americans and Japanese. Because the Japanese had sworn to fight to the death. Not just the military, but every man,woman and child.
The dropping of the bomb was done with great trepidation. Even though over 100,000 lives were lost in the attack, it could have been 500,000 or more.

Answer 5

yes they dropped leaflets for over a week warning them that the bomb would be drooped and also the type and power of this bomb, But since no one had ever heard of such a bomb they didn't believe its potency so most didn't bother to leave, the rest is history,

sorry I didn't read the question good enough, it was a Atomic bomb not nuclear But it got the job done

Answer 6

No.

Atomic bomb warning leaflets were dropped on Japanese cities after Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been destroyed.

Answer 7

Get ur facts straight...we have NEVER used nuclear weapons on anyone. We however dropped 2 atom bombs, which isnt the same thing. One is about fusion, the other about fission. The A bombs werent nearly as powerful as a nuclear weapon is today.

But yes we did warn them, very suttle though.

Answer 8

no get your facts straight either one has to do with the nucleus of an atom hence the term nuclear

Answer 9

yes they did...unlike the Japanese giving us NO warning before they bombed Pearl Harbor.

Answer 10

NO .......IT WAS TOP SECRET ALLTHE WAY.... IT WAS CALLED THE MANHATTEN PROJECT --THOSE WHO WORKED ON THE PHYSICAL PARTS OF THE A-BOMB IN OAK RIDGE TENN. --DID NOT KNOW WHAT IT WAS ...........EVEN VP-H.S.TRUMAN TOTALLY DID NOT KNOW....THEN FDR DIED IN MAY 1945 & TRUMAN BECAME PRES. & HE OKAYED THE PLANNED 3 STAGE DROPPINGS IN ORDER TO SAVE ONE MILLION MILITARY LIVES....HIROSHIMA--NAGASAKI AND FINALLY TOKYO....TOKYO WAS CUT SHORT BY THE JAPANESE SURRENDERING UNCONDITIONALLY.......THE TOTAL COST OF LIVES ALL SIDES----60 MILLION IN WWII--PACIFIC & EUROPEAN THEATERS....