what were the options if truman hadnt dropped the atomic bomb on japan?

Question

and also whats your opinion on him dropping the bombs and why?

Answer 1

if the bombs hadn't been used then we would have had to invade japan,with russian help most likely. i have never seen any evidence on the numbers people claimed would have been killed if an invasion would have happened,just guesses.

Answer 2

The option was to continue the war as to was and lose hundreds of thousand of more American soldiers, eventually win the war but at that loss. I was for dropping the bomb, for reasons just stated!

Answer 3

Not pay the german traitor scientists to build the weapon in the first place, i was actually wondrering the other day if hitler knew his scientists would leave and create the forth reicht in down town USA! the golden eagle at the top of both flags should be enough evidence, the irony is it's a bunch of New York jews that are profitting the most (other than the oil companies).

Answer 4

Invaision of the Japanese home islands, an event which history says would be met with incredible resistance resulting in many thousands of casualties. The threat of invaision would have acted as a unifying action, the Japanese would have fought ferociously.

Answer 5

Lose close to a million lives in the invasion of Japan. Winston Churchill's estimate.

Answer 6

The united states was ready to invade. If the united states invaded, we would have lost 250,000 more men.

The atomic bomb saved 250,000 american fighting men and probably 2-3 million japanese civilians.

I have been to japan and seen the museums. They were training kids to take spears, swords, and guns and "turn them on the american invaders."

The atomic bomb saved lives, including my uncle who was a civilian thrown into a japanese p.o.w. camp.

Answer 7

Options? Less people killed by americans!
I see that nobody cares here about 140 000 civil people killed there by bomb. About kids who died immediately in their classes, about people who have been burnt alive on the streets, about those who was jumping into rivers to reduce the pain and then finding out that their skin is swimming separate from their bodies...

You are bastards.

Answer 8

The US would have had to invade mainland Japan. Result - 100,000 more dead and wounded for the US and 3 times a many dead Japanese as died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.