were they really ready? if so why didn't they agree to the proposal we sent them a month before the bombs?
2007-03-01 05:37:36 · 12 answers · asked by Ana E 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
No... and don't believe the revisionists. The Japs were preparing the people to fight to the last person and millions of Japs and Americans and all the others would have died in an invasion of the home islands.
Dropping the bomb saved countless lives
2007-03-01 05:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They were almost ready.
They had wanted a conditional surrender, something MacArthur would not accept.
Besides he wanted to use the bomb to gauge how effective they were.
He selected Hiroshima and Nagasaki as they had remained unscathed by the bombing of Japanese cities.
The results off not using them would have seen the slaughter of thousands of GI's and Marines, and millions of Japanese as every inch of all four main islands and countless would have had to be fought for
2007-03-01 07:47:37 · answer #2 · answered by Murray H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all, they were going to fight to the last man and use suicide attacks (Kamikazes) if necessary. They strongly believed in the war they were fighting, the atom bomb seemed the only way to bring about a quick victory.
2007-03-01 05:45:09 · answer #3 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they really weren't. I know the guy {personally} that dropped the Atomic Bomb. The Japanese were not expecting that move at all.... I'm sure that you will probably have more questions for me about this, so email me back at amymrgrt@yahoo.com.
2007-03-01 05:42:29 · answer #4 · answered by amymrgrt 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no they were not ready to surrender. they were prepared to just fight as a resistance. the reason we dropped the bombs were to save lives. there would of been alot more deaths if the war continued
2007-03-01 05:48:08 · answer #5 · answered by dgb6919 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
certainly no longer in basic terms their lives, yet additionally jap lives. you notice by bringing an end to the conflict we prevented the will for a floor conflict in Japan which might have cost much greater lives than the bomb did, additionally it stopped the jap pass by Asia, saving countless lives in different Asian international places, additionally with Russia making plans an invasion of japan, it back saved countless Russian lives. without the A bomb, that conflict might have raged on for 20 greater years, and value untold hundreds of thousands upon million s of lives.
2016-11-26 22:22:19 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they weren't even going to surrender after the first a-bomb.
2007-03-01 05:41:23 · answer #7 · answered by Retired From Y!A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were not going to surrender. They didn't even after the first bomb was dropped.
2007-03-01 05:41:15 · answer #8 · answered by Groovy 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I agree with your first answer. It was a matter of pride with them.
2007-03-01 05:42:18 · answer #9 · answered by cajunrescuemedic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nope. the Japanese are a bunch of weirdos. who knows what's going on in their mind.
2007-03-01 05:44:03 · answer #10 · answered by bobaj 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋