Did the Japanese get what they deserved when we dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

Question

President Harry S. Truman ordered that Fat Man and Little Boy (the two atomic bombs) be dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. I consider President Truman's actions in this matter totally proper. The Japanese deserved to have the atomic bombs dropped on them. (YES!!!) I only regret that we did not drop an atomic bomb on the Imperial Palace in Tokyo and kill that cowardly scum Hirohito. We also should have nuked Kyoto because that city is sacred to the Japanese. And finally to Speedy, whose great-grandfather died at Hiroshima, I can only say that your great-grandfather was a cowardly scumball who probably commited atrocities at Nanking, and he deserved to fry.

Answer 1

Hell yes they were justified, another 100,000-200,000 US Troops would die at a minumum in a mas invasion of Japan; so we just took out 200,000 Japs and saved all of those American lives. Thats what they get for blindisiding America at the beginning of the War.

Answer 2

I wonder why the atom bombs named "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" were not dropped in NAZI dominated (yet) WHITE Germany and why an Asian country like Japan was selected?
Do racism has any role to play here as well?
Anyways, it should not have been dropped on innocent civilians....no ways...Nothing justifies this.

Answer 3

Ok, while the question is a little over the top the one thing I repeatedly see in answers in 'innocent women and children'. Fact is the Japanese were training those same 'innocent women and children' to fight back the American invasion. Which would have been worse, invasion where instead of those killed in the atomic bomb instead were killed in fighting by US soldiers. Or soldiers who are killed by a child because the US soldier didn't want to kill a child. How many cities would have been destroyed in such an invasion. Look at how intense the fighting was in Russia when Germany invaded. If the USA had invaded Japan resistance would have been greater.
I think Truman did the right thing for both countries ending the war early and preventing hundreds of thousands more deaths.
I also had a friend who was on the 7th wave of the invasion of Japan, his brother was on the 2nd. He always said that he was glad for the Atomic bomb, it allowed him to live longer than he would have.

Answer 4

Difficult to say what was "deserved". Given the era within which WWII took place, the stated objective of the United States and the Allied forces to obtain the "total and unconditional surrender of the Japanese Empire", and the strong desire to hold Allied casualites to a minimum, I think it can be argued successfully that the use of the Atomic bombs was justified. That being said, the word "deserved" isn't a truly valid word to use and requires a value judgement we, in this day, are not competent to make.

Answer 5

The Japanese did not deserved to get nuked-they deserved to get nuked 200 times over-Scholars estimate that the Japs butchered 10 million to 30 million innocent CIVILIANS-with body count likely to be 20 - 25 million innocent civilians- 50,000 to 80,000 died in Hiroshima- so lets do some math-

lets conservatively say that the Japs murdered 20 million and lets highball the casualties at Hiroshima at 100,000 - hey that's 200 Hiroshimas-

so if we compare the sheer scale of murder- hey what happened at Hiroshima is INSIGNIFICANT-

so did they deserved to get nuked? Hell Yes!!

Answer 6

Of course they deserved what they got. Thousands of those children killed were being trained in different ways to kill Americans. The ineventable invasion of the Japanese invasion of America would have killed an estimated 500,000 military and civilian Americans both women and children. They gained the American military trust early on, they received their up and comings at wars end. President Truman did the right thing.

Answer 7

Well i cant say no, i heard in t he paper accounts of Japanese people who tortured soldiers, by putting horse urine in kidneys, tying people to poles then seeing the impact of flamethrower and grenades. Plus if the yanks hadn't dropped the A-bombs how long would the war go on for, and how many lives would it take, after all the Japanese were very determined and would not generally surrender..
Andrew F above me also makes a good point

Answer 8

First of all, you're being exceedingly crass about this. The idea behind the bombing of Japan was based on the estimated casualty rate. It was estimated that almost a million US soldiers would die taking the islands, along with untold millions of Japanese soldiers and civilians. When faced between about two hundred thousand and a quick end rather than a long war with over another three or more million deaths, Truman did the smart thing. The question isn't did they get what they deserved, it's what decision was the right one?

Answer 9

Well, yes because they had no reason for going and killing people who didn't do anything to them and making people suffer in the Philippines. And just to hear the story of that from my husbands Aunt who lived through that moment in time and lost her little sister right before her eyes. I guess all I can say is the Japanese had it coming and they deserved it.

Answer 10

People will attempt to justify the bombing of a major Japanese civilian center by saying that Japanese SOLDIERS committed atrocities during the war. Of course the soldiers did some horrible things, but it is never right to use force such as we did against innocents.

The bombs would have been put to better use on Japanese military installations where there was a low density of civillian population.

Answer 11

Janes first of all let me shake your hand *shakes hand*
ok
now that that is over with..
I totally agree with you... the japanese thought they could handle the united states and wanted to get us in this war. Well guess what Japan go look on teh sidewalks of Hiroshima.. because there are still shadows burned into the ground of ur citizens... bravo japan... congradulations on sinking a few ships... and killing like a few US soldiers in pearl harbor becuase u just lost a good % of ur population...

Simply Put... If you mess with the united states and decide to attack them on their own soil, prepare to get royally fu cked in the as s.... If it were me in control Baghdad would have been nuked 2 years ago... well hell if it were me I'd just whipe Iran, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq off the planet... no rag head is a good raghead... when ur country trains 10 yr olds to shoot ppl or blow themselves up ... no 1 is good...