If Truman didnt use the atomic bomb what would have happened?

Question

If Truman didnt use the atomic bomb what would have happened?

Also using it what was the immediate and long term impact the ultimate decision had upon Japan, the U.S. & the world.

Answer 1

Longer war, more deaths from fire bombing, more deaths from GIs invading the beachs and Soviet hegemy in the Orient, similar to the East European Bloc...true story.

Answer 2

You revisionists crack me up. We already knew the atom bomb worked. We didn't want to use it. It was a weapon of last resort.

The experts calculated there would be upwards of 80,000 casualties the FIRST DAY of an invasion of the mainland (that's killed and wounded). What would have happened in the weeks to follow is anybody's guess.

The US did not get a surrender from Japan before the bombs were dropped. That accusation is a flat-out lie. The US warned Japan we had a new weapon and if we did not get the surrender, we would use it. We used the first one, we heard nothing. We used the second, we heard - they surrendered.

And remember this, except for a persuasive man on the ground, a squadron of Japanese Kamikazee pilots was getting ready to take off and sink the U.S.S. Missouri to stop the surrender from taking place. They didn't surrender easily. Many would rather die than surrender.

Did we have the moral right to drop it? Yes and we had the moral duty to our soldiers to do so. They started the war with us. While ending it, we should do all we can to protect our soldiers. Dropping the bombs did just that, it saved American lives. Some argue that it probably saved Japanese lives. That may be so, but it is irrelevant. In war, your duty isn't to save the lives of the enemy.

The immediate impact was the war ended and soldiers like my dad were able to come home. The long range impact was to show the world the awesome power of nuclear war. You notice the world has paid attention so far. It hasn't been used in the 60+ years since.

Answer 3

Even if we did not have the bomb, we would NOT have invaded Japan. We didn't need to.

Instead, we would have continued the naval blockade and continued bombing their cities and industries with conventional bombs. Hiroshima and Nagasaki would still have been destroyed, just like Tokyo already had been. Japan might have held out for a few more weeks, but they still would have surrendered.

Remember, one of the reasons Truman dropped the bomb was to induce Japan to surrender before the Soviet Union joined the war against Japan, as they had pledged to do at Yalta. We didn't want the Russians to get any part of Japan in the peace settlement if we could avoid it. But the Japanese also didn't want the Russians to attack. They knew how the Russians had treated the defeated Germans, and knew they would be ten times worse than the Americans, so Japan definitely would have surrendered before Russia got involved.

Answer 4

As President, Truman made the extremely some maximum obligatory judgements in historic past. quickly after V-E Day, the conflict against Japan had reached its very final degree. An pressing plea to Japan to provide up replaced into rejected. Truman, after consultations along with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities dedicated to conflict paintings. 2 have been Hiroshima and Nagasaki. eastern renounce right now accompanied. even however the action positively stored many American lives by bringing the conflict to an end, the morality of the determination remains debated.

Answer 5

Japan would have ended up divided like Germany, with Hokkaido under Soviet control. We knew that the Soviets were going to attack Japan on August 8th, exactly 3 months after Germany surrendered, and we knew that Stalin wasn't about to relenquish territory once his Army took it. By the 15th, when Japan agreed to surrender, the Red Army had reclaimed the lands Japan took in the 1905 war, overrun all of Manchuria (an area the size of Western Europe), and moved into Northern Korea. Landings on Hokkaido were planned for mid-september, but the dropping of the Atom Bombs kept it from happening.

Answer 6

First Renee, the cold war wasnt actually a war, it was more of a battle with words.

any guess is a good guess, Japan new they screwed up by attacking us, yamamoto's words-we have only awakened a sleeping giant, we were neutral up until that point, we were on our own agenda, but after entering the war, Hitler was done with. if the u.s. would not have used it, then it would have taken us alot longer to show the world that we are a super power. That could also fall under the immediate impact, the long term, didnt hurt it, we do business with japan as of now, will they ever do another P.H? I doubt it, For the U.S. imme. and long term, it helped to create jobs, we were in a pretty bad situation, little jobs and such, the war helped creat what we needed and helped to ease the burden many were going through, as for the world, I am sure many countries sh*ted in their commy fruit of the looms,

Answer 7

If the US did not drop the Bombs on Japan, they would have to revert to a conventional planned invasion of the Home Islands called Operation Downfall.

"Downfall" will start with a amphibious invasion on Kyushu, south of Japan, and the US will fight their way to Tokyo. The invasion force could be larger than D-Day with casualties reaching over millions including suicide attacks by both civilians and troops.

Long after the war, in the 1960's Japan became an economic power house. The US, with the USSR, became superpowers and the reality of nuclear terrorism

Answer 8

If we had not used the atomic bomb, then the invasion of Japan, which would involve over a million men, would have gone forth with Operation Coronet and Operation Olympic. Had they been put in motion, they would stand today as the largest amphibious invasion in all of history. The Japanese would deploy EVERY weapon they had to crush the invaders. Shortage of rifles? No problem, they would have used sharpened sticks. No military uniforms? They would've worn whatever they had handy, forcing the Allies to treat every Japanese as a hostile. Children called Sherman blankets would have been trained to knock out tanks by loading themselves with explosives and throwing themselves in their path. Plans to infect San Francisco and San Diego with planes loaded with bubonic plauge would be put into action. A huge kamizaze force-the largest ever assembled-would have pounded the offshore Allied fleet. We would have lost more than one million men, and that was estimated to be just in the opening stages, when we were trying to get a foothold on Japanese soil. An estimate for the whole operation would be more in the leauge of 2.5 million, if we were lucky. Above all, the Japanese would NEVER, EVER, EVER surrender. As William Manchester, a historian and a veteran of the Pacific War himself, said: "You think of the lives we would've lost in an invasion of Japan, and you thank god for the atomic bomb". The first day would've been Saipan, Peleliu, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Guadalcanal combined. They started this war. We just finished it. Did they deserve it? Hell yes, they did. Revisionists would do well to examine Japanese atrocities during the invasion of Manchuria and China.

Answer 9

The war with Japan would have ended anyway. Mountbatten was already in secret negotiations with them.

The problem was that the Americans, having spent millions of Tax payers Dollars on building the bomb, just had to use it to justify the expenditure.

Answer 10

We would have lost thousands and thousands of lives during the invasion of Japan. At the time Japanese military forces were very determined and prepared to defend each village and each house in case of our invasion. They would sacrifice civilians without hesitation. As cruel as it might sound, in the end the use of atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saved lives of American and Japanese people.