Keep in mind whether or not you would want Japan to drop a bomb on the United States. Please give a fair opinion.
2007-05-21 05:22:40 · 12 answers · asked by Opal 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Opal, I think that is an excellent question. On the one hand it can be argued that the Japanese refused to surrender and the bomb saved many Allied casualties it would have incurred in an invasion attempt. Remember, too, Japan started this war with the U.S. On the other hand many civilians were killed and injured and the war may have ended soon without the bomb. Some speculate Truman wanted to use the bomb to see how well it worked and to scare the hell out of the Russians. Hard to say now how one would have felt then.
2007-05-21 05:35:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one, including the creators of the bomb (Oppenheimer, Einstein...) understood exactly how extensive the damage would be from THE bomb.
You leave out some details from your question... do you mean to say, if I knew THEN what I know NOW, would I have been for it? Probably not.
But if I knew THEN what everybody knew THEN, then yes, I would have been for it. Japan brought the war to us... they were not too unlike the Islamic terrorists of today, in that they had kamikaze pilots who would crash their planes into targets to kilss as many people as possible... they were known for their cruel death marches and torture practices... and the fight was dragging on and on.
The A-bomb, though utterly more devastating than anyone could have imagined, ENDED the war.
It was and should have been the last time a bomb of that magnitude was ever dropped on a people. We used it, somewhat naively, to end a bloody war...
Iran and Korea have threatened to use it, KNOWING the potential impact, as a weapon against people they don't like.
Big difference between then and now.
2007-05-21 05:36:54 · answer #2 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering the nobody really understood the far reaching consequences of going nuclear, I would have been for it. The reality of the time was that nobody knew where this was leading, certainly not the average American, who had been embroiled in this war for four years. We faced invading the Japanese mainland, which would have been a long and bloody battle. I wouldn't have wanted Japan to drop the bomb on us but I don't see how that plays into the question at all. We had the bomb, they didn't.
2007-05-21 05:28:20 · answer #3 · answered by matt b 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I see the bombing of population centers to be extremely unethical. A more appropriate use would have been to use the atom bombs against their navy. Even before the bomb was dropped the Japanese emperor was in favor of surrendering to save the loss of life of an invasion. If we had demonstrated the power of the bomb against their military I think that many civilian lives would have been saved. Of course hindsight is 20/20.
2007-05-21 05:53:12 · answer #4 · answered by drewpten 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
drop 1 bomb, end a war? drop 1 bomb, save lives of your own country men? Drop 1 bomb, on a country that attacked your country first? If you are at war, you drop bombs.
2007-05-21 05:33:52 · answer #5 · answered by zorro1701e 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say yes, far more lives would have been lost on both sides had we continued the course we were on, the firebombing of Japan by the U.S accounted for far more deaths then the two atomic weapons dropped on Japan. Let's just stay away from war all together and work on our understanding of one another.
2007-05-21 05:31:32 · answer #6 · answered by Ben L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For. Reason? December 7th - the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor.
Would I want Japan to bomb us? Of course not...but we haven't attacked them while they sleep either.
And all opinions are fair, it's just whether anyone agrees with them or not. ☺
2007-05-21 05:31:40 · answer #7 · answered by Enchanted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of of the U. S. dropped the bombs and ignored to tell Stalin simply by actuality whoever develop into the President did no longer desire Japan to coach Communist. The purple militia develop into advancing and it may take too long for u . s . of usa to invade. It develop into in fact the conflict indoors the Pacific, I did my coursework on it. despite if the jap have been killing countless people and being each and each piece as cruel simply by actuality the Nazi's have been, they made the prisioners dig their very own graves despite if the Nazis did this too, it maintains to be no excuse for killing tens of thousands and thousands of people, even in the widespread-day it ought to result jap peoples lives - radiation poisoning, and wiping out 2 cities. It develop into u . s . of usa rubbing her firepower and capability in people's faces needlessly. don't get me incorrect in lots of circumstances circumstances its mandatory yet different situations it incredibly is a waste of time and attempt.
2016-12-29 17:08:19 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would be all for it. while the bomb killed many it also spared the lives of thousands of Americans and japanese in the event of an invasion.
2007-05-21 05:31:46 · answer #9 · answered by jefferson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
two things (cause and effect)
one I'd be against the war
two I'd be dead for being against the war lol
2007-05-21 05:30:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋