Was it neccessary and acceptable for Usa to drop devasting bombs on Japan?

Question

Please- no insults I am here to learn.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

It was necessary. Japan was willing to fight to the very last man, woman & child to keep us out of Japan. The Emperor of Japan sent a message to Stalin asking the Russian's, who were our Allies @the time, to negotiate a peace with America. The Emperor, in fact, sent two messages to the Russian's. We were never told by the Russian's of Japan's willingness to surrender. President Truman had a difficult decision. Our military had said that by trying to take Japan by invasion we could loose up to a million men! We had fought a hard war; thousands had died, to suffer even 250,000 more men dying was too much to ask of the American people. He decided to drop the two bombs thus ending the war. Yes, it was terrible. We really had no idea of how awfull the damage would be until it was done. I think that this horrer has been in the mind of many nations & a major reason no more of those type of bombs have been used again. However the world is changing & the bomb is in the hands of many nations that do not feel compassion for others & would use the bomb if they felt they could make a first strike that would totally eleminate their opposition. Horrible as it was, it was the right decision.

Answer 3

Well, from what I understand, the options were basically either some German analogue to Hiroshima/Nagasaki or Hiroshima. Now let's say that we dropped the bomb on that analogue. Up side: the Soviets don't get too far into Europe (would probably hold the Baltic states and have a limited degree of influence in Eastern Europe, but not as much as it did in this time line. Down side: Effects that were experienced in Hiroshima are now duplicated in that German city, killing hundreds of thousands. Defeating Japan now becomes extremely harder, increasing troop deaths the Pacific up a few ten thousand or more. Also, influence not placed into Eastern Europe has to have some sort of an outlet, either inwardly or outwardly. For the sake of argument, let's say that it went into... Japan. Just as Germany was split in two after the war, Japan would be split. History is changed and from what I can guess, East Asia now becomes a lot more volatile.
Fine, I honestly don't know how plausible the above scenario was, but now you get my point. To tell you the truth, I feel that what we did was somewhat acceptable in the sense that it would save more of our troops; however, we should have only dropped one as I feel that they would have surrendered anyhow.

Answer 4

Yes...I believe and they believed in the past that our retaleation had to be so great that Japan and any other counrty would second guess ever attacking our soil again. By us being so brutal in our vendetta, it made it safer for all american for many decades. It may be cruel and many people may believe it was uncalled for, but it worked and it made the world know that if you mess with the USA you will live to regret it. Even before attacking us the emporor of Japan knew it was a bad idea to bring the war to us, and he did reggret it, that is a large reason why we are ok with each other to day, if it was so bad what we did then why are we friendly nations today. In the long run we proved our point...hopefully I was helpful.

Answer 5

No, Japan was in the stages of negotiating a surrender but the U.S. dropped it to quickly end the war. It wasn't neccessary. The two bombs killed almost 150,000 civilians as Truman was kind of duped into thinking they were military targets.

Answer 6

Well, yes because if you look at everything the Japan did like the attack on the Pearl Harbert and the death march in the Philippines.

As much as I hate to say this but yes it was at the time and it did play a big role in the ending of WWII.

Answer 7

Yes it was and this Liberal isn't spinning anything. Look, the invasion of Japan would have resulted in as many US casualties as we had already suffered in nearly 4 years of war. Japan would have been devastated far beyond two cities.

And today, Japan is one of the greatest allies and friends of the US.

Answer 8

It was a horrible incident that happened in the war, but it was something necessary for the ending of the war. If it wouldn't have happened, then Japan would have continued to fight, feeding their soldiers false information to keep them fighting, making them believe they were winning the war. The bombings brought around the surrender of Japan in the war. For if it wouldn't have happened, though Japan had "agreed" to a surrender, they had continue to order their soldiers to fight to the death, even though it had been obvious they had lost the war.

Answer 9

General Douglas MacArthur pleaded with Truman not to drop the bombs. He thought that we could win the war without the bombs.

Truman dropped the bombs to waive his junk at the Soviets.

The Japanese, as I understand it, were attempting to surrender before the bombs were dropped but we refused to accept their "conditional surrender." We wanted unconditional surrender and we need to show the Soviets who was boss.

Answer 10

It probably wasn't necessary but the US didn't want to drag the war on, resulting in more deaths of US soldiers. So the US decided to drop the bomb but have regretted it since.