America using nukes?

Question

Why do Americans think that the nuclear attack on Japan was the greatest thing. I know it MAY have saved lives, but civilians, and babies. I know that Japan was tough but to kill that many people is almost as bad as the camps that Germany ran right? Please somebody tell me otherwise.

Answer 1

the only people who think it was wrong/bad are Japs and liberals

Answer 2

Why do people thing war should be nice and clean and neat? War is about making the other side not want to fight any more! That's our problem now. We haven't made the enemy not want to fight. In war there are no civilians. Japan had planned to make there children fight us on the beaches with wooden spears. Millions of "civilians" would have died. Don't compare the use of nuclear weapons with the death camps of Germany! We were Not attempting genocide! We were attempting to end a war! Guess what it worked japan didn't want to fight any more. Useing these weapons saved a million american soldiers and millions of japonese. Can you imagine what history would say if we had not used those bombs and all those people died when it didn't have to happen. If the death count in invading japan had been 20 or 30 million that would have been better? How? No matter what the revisionist might say useing those weapons was the right thing to do.

Answer 3

I was good because the Nuclear attack actually saved hundreds of thousands of people mostly civilians. Before it was revealed to the rest of the military brass a plan was developed called Operation Downfall which was the plans to invade Japan. The estimate of the casualties that would have resulted from invading Japan was about a million people. Plus if the Soviet Union would have invaded as well like they invaded Korea and Germany Japan could still be split in two like North and South Korea.

Answer 4

It is a great shame that such powerful bombs were used. And it was unnecessary. Japan was trying to surrender all summer, but Truman wanted an unconditional surrender. He also wanted to show off and find out what the aftermath would be of such an attack. The effects of radiation, the "atomic sickness" that swept the people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima reported by the Japanese was deemed propoganda, although the American very well knew what happened, because they were documenting it. If people knew not only how bad the initial strike is, but the disgusting after effects, perhaps they would realize what a barbaric notion striking another nation with a nuclear weapon is, especially pre-emptively.

Answer 5

There can be no comparison between the nuclear attack on Japan and the annihilation of Jews, Gypsies and other "undesirables" by the Nazis.

The atom bombs unleashed by the US saved millions of lives. Not just the lives of the US soldiers (which I hold higher than anyone else) but also saved the lives of women and children of our enemy. 1945 was a time before smart bombs and political correctness. If we would have invaded Japan using conventional means we would have had to bomb every house and building. Lives would have been lost on both sides.

I realize that you have an Anti American bias but you cannot deny the obvious truth.

Answer 6

War in general is horrible. Real war is not like in the video games. Real war is to cause the otherside yield first. Unfortunately, civilians are part of that equation. The difference between the Concentration camps and the atomic bomb is that concentration camps were the systematic extermination of undesirables (Jews, homosexuals, etc) whereas dropping the atomic bomb was an act of war. Remember, the US was attacked first by Japan.

Answer 7

I think you're right. America deliberately hit two cities mostly full of civilians. We got them early in the morning when the streets would be crowded. And Nagasaki was the center of Christianity in Japan.

Japan was already suing for peace. The story is that we wanted -unconditional- surrender, but we let them keep their emperor, which was all they wanted.

There are rumors that we'd spent so much developing the nukes that we -had- to use them somewhere. There's a theory that President Truman was not told about fallout, just that it was a super-big bomb. There's a theory that we really did it to scare the Soviets (General MacArthur wanted to go after the Soviets next, with nuclear weapons).

Some Americans insist that an invasion of Japan would have cost as many as a million lives, since they expected Japan to fight to the last man, woman and child. But I think this is very unlikely.

Still, it's hard to say. It was the end of the worst war in history. Who really knows what the president and generals were thinking.

Answer 8

In first place battle casuality estimates just to establish a beach head on the home islands of Japan was over one million men. That is 1,000,000 American service men killed or wounded just to get on the beach.
And in previous battles such as Iwo Jima and Okinwa the Japs did not surrender they refused to surrender instead throwing themselves at American forces in banzi attacks. And Kamaksi attacks.
So Pac Sink knew that when we invaded the home islands the Japanese army was not going to surrender it was going to be a fight to the last man and possibly woman for the Japanese.they were not going to surrender.

What no one says about that is the bombs we dropped on Japan problably saved a lot more Japanese lives than were killed because they shocked Japan into surrendering instead of fighting to the last man. machine nest to machine nest. fox hole to fox hole. hoping for some miracle like the Divine Wind that saved them from the Mongrelians.

Second we were at war with Japan They started it by their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.. They were the enemy. You kill the enemy in war. You kill all the enemy. War is not some game to be played by some set of rules. War is the total destruction of the enemy.
And if you need justification for that look it up in the Islamic Koran, Jewish the Tora and Talbot, and the Christian Bible..

Answer 9

The Germans were engaging in production line murder...The bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a direct blow to an imperial nation and it's ability to maintain an ongoing war effort. We crippled them heavily, rendering their ability to continue fighting almost nil. That civilians were killed is an undeniable fact, but the motives surrounding this decision were based on winning a war...not needless killing of captives in a camp.

Answer 10

america using nuclear weapons may have been the single most important thing to happen after einstein's e=mc^2 was discovered.

SOMEBODY had to be the first to use a nuclear weapon against human beings, it's just embarrassing that it had to be us. but i think that it's overall, in hindsight, it was for the best. it basically ended world war two and it showed everybody just how horrible nuclear war is, so, hopefully nobody will ever do that again.

Answer 11

Otherwise.

You are giving in to left wing, America-hating spin talk. I see this same point regurgitated by the Left periodically, and it gets more outrageous every time.

Nukes were justifiably used to end a brutal war that had already claimed millions of lives, and would have claimed millions more. Japanese civilians - women and children - were being trained to defend their country. If a conventional invasion had been undertaken to end the war, the carnage would have been massive.