what alernative attack US should have opted instead of dropping the bomb to hiroshima and nagasaki?

Question

Please state atleast 3

Answer 1

1. An invasion of the Japanese home islands. Approx. 15 million Japanese would have died along with 1 million US servicemen.

2. Continue the bombing campaign to destroy the Japanese military. Hundred of thousands of civilians would have died and as weak as Japan was it still had 3 million soldiers in Japan alone 10,000 airplanes and millions more fanatical militia.

3. Starve the populace. A massive plague would have begun. Thousands of kamikaze attacks against US ships. Millions would have died.

So the best way to end the war was to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki about 180,000 people died in all any of these alternatives would have caused millions more dead on Both sides.

Answer 2

The only realistic alternative would have been to actually drop the bomb on on Tokyo so that the emporer and his evil clique would have seen the destruction first-hand. The devastation at Hiroshima was so great that communication with the rest of Japan was difficult. However, even after the bombing of Nagasaki, the Japanese were insisting on terms that included maintaining the rule of the Emporer, who was strictly speaking a war criminal who should have been hanged.

Is this a school assignment? Why "at least 3" alternatives?

Answer 3

Alternatives to Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
1. Firebomb the Emperor's Residence
2. Surround the islands, starve the population
3. Use aerial bombing and German V-1 and V-2 technology to destroy all military, industrial, and infrastructure
As you can see by all of my alternatives, there still would have been great destruction and loss of life. The problem was not only the home islands, it was also the other territories the Japanese occupied. Getting the soldiers there to surrender would have been even more difficult. The order to lay down their arms had to come from the Emperor himself. HE could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives by doing this much earlier.

Answer 4

There was NO real alternative. The Japs would have defended the home islands to the death and at least 1 million U.S servicemen would have died and nearly ALL of the Japs.

The Atomic Bombs were the best and just about the only alternatively to ending the war.

Also, had the U.S. not dropped the bombs, then Russia was ready to attack Japan and that would have lead to not just murder but rape and pilliaging... just look how the Russian Army acted in Germany... and for Japan, it would have been much worse.

Besides... those wonder Japs... were also committing barbaric crimes against humanity with the torture and murder of thousands... so don't feel too sorry for them getting bombed.

Answer 5

1. None
2. None
3. None

The bombs probably SAVED lives on both sides. A conventional invasion would have been a bloodbath.

Besides, after the Nazis were defeated the Soviets were able to direct their attention to Japan. The Japanese approached Stalin hoping he would mediate a ceasefire, but Stalin double-crossed them and seized the Sakhalin islands.

The conflict HAD to end before the Soviets could invade Japan and turn it into a communist cesspool.

Answer 6

I'll state as many as I feel like. Do you own homework.

The firebombing of Tokyo was a very effective attack that already had the country reeling when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was equally effective, killing 100,000 and destroying most of the city.

Edit - Bill state your proof of that. The Japanese had sworn to fight to the death. The Us firebombed and destroyed most of Tokyo in February of '45. Japan was offered the chance to surrender and was dealt many defeats until August when the US dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. It still was given 3 days to surrender until the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

Answer 7

There could have been other ways at the cost of thousands more dying. You havn't studied much on the subject have you.

Answer 8

The alternative was to conduct a series of firebombings on Tokyo. That was going to kill millions of civilians and hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

The Abomb was the most humane was to rush an end to the war.

It worked.

Answer 9

The Japanese would have surrendered with or without the nuclear bombs.
In a meeting three days before the U.S. drops its bomb on Hiroshima, President Truman agreed that Japan was "looking for peace", according to an account by Walter Brown, assistant to then-U.S. secretary of state James Byrnes. The American President was told by his army generals, Douglas Macarthur and Dwight Eisenhower, and his naval chief of staff, William Leahy, that there’s no need to use the bomb

Answer 10

What i read is that the Japanese leaders realised they couldn't win and actually wanted to surrender. The US wouldn't accept the terms of the Japanese surrender and dropped the bombs to show Russia what they were capable of. The US knew that Russia was becoming a problem because of the situation in Germany (Berlin etc.). Hell of a way to make a point!