The citizens of Japan were brainwashed by their military leaders that, if the U.S. invaded their homeland, we would massacre the entire population including women and children. Also, to die for the Emperor was considered the duty of the individual and a glorious death. When it became evident that the U.S. was readying for an invasion of their homeland, the entire population (men, women and children) was preparing to die. This fanaticism is evident by the number of suicides on the islands during the latter stages of the war. Our military leaders estimated that, if the U.S. invaded Japan, the number of U.S. casualties would number in excess of 250,000 while the Japanese civilian deaths would exceed 2,000,000.
Therefore, even though it was a tragic event, dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved an untold number of lives.
A secondary benefit, though somewhat unusual, was the destruction caused by the bombs themselves. It was so devistating that virtually all of the nations of the world called for atomic warfare to be banned. While this has not yet happened, the threat of retaliation has kept all nations from using it.
2007-03-18 10:30:21
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answered by shaboom2k 4
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The Japanese actually sued for peace before the bomb was dropped but Truman claimed there were too many conditions including no occupation.
Truman pushed through with the bomb to show the Soviets how powerful the US was while hiding behind the claim of saving lives by avoiding an invasion.
2007-03-18 10:23:24
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answered by Anonymous
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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
2007-03-18 10:10:31
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answered by bill 5
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Droping the A-bomb twice was horrible and our government droped it for 2 reasons to scare the japanize to give up and because they wanted test data on the destruction of Nogusakie and Hieroshima was horrible for them to do that to everyone in these citys many people dident care about the war but they saw it as since they devolped it first before the germans did they should be able to use it even it if even though it was the worst invention ever conceived by humanity
2007-03-18 10:04:48
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answered by Anonymous
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i'm no longer reading the different solutions... on the time that the A-bombs were dropped it replaced into considered as maximum suitable for procuring the Japaneese to provide up. We did more advantageous surely damage with assistance from FIREBOMBING than with assistance from use of the A-bombs. the actual reason they were powerful in getting Japan to provide up replaced into the wonder of only one bomb doing a lot damage, then our means to "repeat the trick" which gave the effect that lets shop doing it again and again (which we couldn't on the instantaneous) An invasion of the Japaneese fatherland ought to were brutal to both area. Casualty estimates in the position of one million million US infantrymen and double or more advantageous Japaneese infantrymen plus a number of million civilians by way of consequences of persevered bombing and artillary shelling. we won't be able to flow again and "undrop" the bombs and locate out if we ought to have gone via with an invasion. signals are that we ought to have had to and that in effect dropping the A-bombs kept a number of million lives. So... certain, we mandatory to do it. It could be remembered that the Japaneese people lived below a thoroughly different ideology then compared to now. also the ideology of us of a has replaced in the previous 60 years. we won't be able to choose what replaced into executed 60 years in the past with assistance from immediately's criteria. we can in person-friendly words attempt to appreciate what replaced into executed, and with somewhat of success study from blunders of the previous and accordingly avoid repeating them. We discovered the devastating ability of the A-bomb. We confirmed it to the international. and thanks to that, the international has gone 60 years with out yet another getting used. apparently, mankind did study. a minimum of Japan, China the NATO allied international locations and Soviet international locations did... because we've had lots of chance to apply more advantageous and we've not. What we could continuously concern is a few united states or team that did not study getting carry of a nuclear weapon... and utilizing it. Iran has specificly said that in the journey that they get one, Israel will receive it particular delivery.
2016-11-26 21:01:04
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answered by ? 4
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I cant think of any reason why dropping the bomb on an uninhabited island or at least an industrial area, with an ultimatum would not have accomplished the same thing as vaporizing a couple hundred thousand civilians. The ground zero in both cases was smack in the middle of the most densely populated downtown core.
2007-03-18 10:05:00
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answered by cimra 7
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The Soviet Union would have invaded from the north and the US would have invaded from the south. Japan could not win but the casualties would have been tremendous. Also the country would have been split in two like North and South Korea. A far cry from the economic powerhouse that Japan is today.
2007-03-18 10:08:24
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answered by Paul C 3
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Teh Japanese were ready to literally fight to the last man.
Imagine thge number of fatalities if the Allied Army had to take each island step by step. Hundreds of thousands
2007-03-18 10:03:22
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answered by eddie9551 5
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Not dropping two A-bombs would have prolonged the war, resulting in many more deaths on both sides.
2007-03-18 10:00:02
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answered by Skyhawk 5
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Dropping the Abomb showed America was not to be messed with to the rest of the world, creating us as the only superpower. As well as saved millions of US lives.
2007-03-18 10:22:14
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answered by darkcloud5757 3
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