should us have dropped an atomic bomb on japan?

Question

look folks, i don't want to get a just yes or no answer. i want to get answer which explian why u made that desicion

most people gave a props to trueman by saying that, he made a right desicion by using an atomic bomb. but it all started from there. nuclear war. why should not they dropped an atomic bomb, because it was terrific. it was very bad. japanese never had thought the impact of an atomic bomb. and there were other option , if us did not dropped an a-bomb. but trueman wants to show the power of united states to the world and wanna shocked the whole world by using a terrific weapon. what guys have to say about this? should or should not.

Answer 1

Dropping the atomic bomb probably knocked six months to a year off the end of WWII as well as saving an estimated 100,000 U.S. casualties. So to answer your question, Yes.

Answer 2

OK before the final push to the Japanese home island,s they figure out that for the most part to conquer and occupy japan at best it would be a protracted war around 2 too 4 year,s and that the loss,s in men would have been at least half to 3\4 of the male population in the USA from 18 to 44 year,s of age \ white and black so the only logical choice was a weapon that could defeat the Japanese,s with as few casualty,s for the USA and make japan surrender asap

Answer 3

I've done this before, but I feel strongly enough about it, that I will do it again.

ABSOTIVELY, POSILUTELY, WITHOUT ONE SHRED OF DOUBT OF MISGIVING!!! I'm not sure I can say it any stronger than that. (I wish I had copied my last explanation.)

First and foremost, dropping those bombs saved, at least, 1,000,000,000 American GIs from dying attacking Japan's mainland. The Japanese tradition teaches that surrender is not an option; that those who surrender are less than slaves. (That's why they treated the Americans who surrendered in various battles with the Japanese so poorly.) The Japanese had been brought up to fight to the death and had been told horror stories about what American GIs do to those Japanese who did surrender, especially women. More than ten thousand Japanese, many women and children, jumped to their deaths on Okanowa(sp?) when they knew the Americans had won. Imagine how the Japanese of all ages would fight to the death to defend their homeland? Therefore, not only would a million servicemen been saved, but also thousand upon thousands of Japanese civilians, including children, were also saved throughout Japan because we dropped those bombs.

Additionally, they were warned by leaflets dropped from planes of what was going to happen and the inhabitants were told that they should leave the city. The Japanese government told those people that it was a lie and allowed them, if not prevented some, from leaving the first city. Even after the first city was destroyed, the Japanese government still would not surrender! Perhaps they thought the first bomb was the only one of its kind, I don't know, but they allowed, insisted, that the second one be dropped and the second city be destroyed before they would surrender.

The most important thing is that our GIs were sparred. The Japanese started the war; they brought it on themselves.

Answer 4

If we had not dropped the A-bomb, the next thing would have been an invasion of the Japanese Home islands. Considering the resistance on places like Iwo Jima, Okanowa and Guam the casualty rates on both sides would have been enomous. In this case the bomb spared us half a million American lives and up to 3 million Japanese. If I had been in Truman's place I would have given the order too.

Answer 5

President Truman believed that united statesa. might the two would desire to invade the jap mainland, and go through the shortcoming of a minimum of a million infantrymen, in the different case drop atomic bombs and stress renounce. the determination became into made to not settle for a million extra casualties, yet to stress renounce on Japan with atomic bombs.

Answer 6

Hell yeah!
Consider the situation in August of 1945. Kamakaze attacks daily. The civillan population ready to join in on it. US subs had sunk the merchant fleet & Navy cutting off japan from Oil & food. Curtiss Le May's B29's had fire bombed every major city in Japan already ( In fact, those raids killed more people than the A bomb did). Casualities from Okinawa, Manila & Iwo Jima were far greater than any in the European war. Plus the Russians were ready to start there expansion East( imagine Korea Japan & China as Communist???). The Planing fro the invasion of Japan expected our loses to be massive. Truman did the right thing. Hey pay back is a *****. They got theirs........

Answer 7

Yes. The Japanese were very stubborn and the first one was not enough to convince them. It took a second one for them to see that they had lost the war.

I think the Japanese knew if they didn't surrender, the next
Atomic Bomb would be dropped on Tokyo.

Answer 8

Supposedly the naval blockade we had on them was successful and they were about 3 months away from running out of supplies when we dropped the bomb. But we didn't know this at the time. From an American perspective yes it was good. It saved numerous GI lives by not sending trooops in. Japanese perspective no.

Answer 9

If truman hadn't dropped the bomb the war would have lasted for years longer and cost thousands of more lives. By dropping the bombs Truman broke the will of the japanese people which is what finally ended the war.

Answer 10

The causality figures range starts at 4 million Allied dead, 14 million Japanese dead and goes up from there. The worst case scenario was total genocide of Japanese. This way there was less than a half a million dead and the war was over period dot end of story. Why ask if we should have used it? Instead ask why some damn fool thinks we should not have used it?