How many of u regret the act of Hiroshima n Nagasaki. Did u people make any effort to stop making of atom bomb

Answer 1

I certainly do. It was a cowardly act on the part of the US. People justify it by saying, "Well, it would have cost US lives if we invaded Japan, so the A-bomb was the only way." Think about what these people are actually saying. Instead of having our military targets get killed while launching an assault on another country, it was easier to just slaughter hundreds of thousands of non-military targets, and poison the land there for many many years.

Wow.

These people actually justify the mass murders of the elderly, women, and children. It is insane. They say Hitler is a tyrant because he ordered the deaths of millions of Jews, yet nuking Japan somehow falls under the category of murder being okay. It is really sad...

The worst part is that Japan had a surrender in play already. The second bomb was dropped to show the USSR how deadly the US was, and helped fuel the cold war.

Answer 2

Facts. The people on yahoo anwsers did not build the bomb. The first Atomic bomb (dropped in white sands New Mexico) was Designed and constructed by a Team of scientists under supervision by the Army. The head of that department Oppenhimer is dead. As of 2006 only 12; of the original 1000 people involved in the project; are still alive. I highly doubt that any of those 12 frequent Yahoo anwsers. I personally know 10 of them; they barely check emails.
Secondly: The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagaski, Fatman and Little boy respectively. Were built in 3 different phases the first being in the Manzano mountains of New Mexico, the second happened in "Happy Town" which was a town built by the military and no longer exists. The third place Col Tibbits inserted the "device" and put in the safety pin arming the weapon.
Third: after wehiging the overwhelming losses in all areas that Japaned was attacked and the promise from the Emporer that every citzen would fight to the death the general estimate of 700,000 Marines and 1 million Army losses plus 2-3 million in Japanese losses it was decided to use the weapon.
Fourth: After Hiroshima was attacked the Emporer decided to surrender to America. Several of his high ranking officers heard this and decided to stop the Emporer by attacking the Imperial city and keeping him from sending the message. This delayed his speech by 3 days and resulted in America dropping the bomb a seconed time.
So in view of this no I don't regret the decisions made. It was a terrible devistation but it ultimately saved lives and stopped the war. History can not be changed; but if it could I would agree to dropping the bomb. Rather lose less than 500,000 than 4 million lives.

Answer 3

1) "Hiroshima n(!) Nagasaki?" "Did u people make any effort to stop making of atom bomb?" Learn to speak, please.
2) I wasn't alive, I couldn't stop s**t in 1945. My father was two years old, HE couldn't stop s**t.
3) You seriously have to look at it in a historical context. Should people die? No. But had we not dropped the bomb on Japan, the war probably would have continued on into 1946, who knows maybe 1947. Both the US and the Japanese would have EXTREME casualties, look at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, those were just military bases, not actual Japanese homeland. Casualties for the US were estimated at 6,000 just for the initial invasion. Civilians would have been either pushed to suicide, helped fight the Americans, or killed by their own soldiers if they went to the Americans (look at Okinawa). The Japanese would have probably fought to the last man.
On top of that, there was the threat of the USSR. They wanted nearly half of Europe at Yalta. We wanted to deny them as much land as possible. They barely walked away with Manchu (Manchuria now) and modern North Korea. Had they'd invaded Japan, they would have wanted to occupy that land, making a Communist Japan. Under American occupation (same for Germany) Japan excelled and became economically prosperous. Compare East Europe to West, North Korea to South. World of difference.
Also do note, that casualties in the Hiroshima bombing were by no means as many as those in the Tokyo fire bombings.

Answer 4

I tried looking at Frank R's facts and because I am at work it was blocked by our filter as Racism and Hate, so I guess your "Facts" may be wrong mate.

I have never heard of any peace/Surrender negotiations by the Japanese mentioned in any books or web pages I have read.


Do I regret the dropping of the bombs, not for a minute, they could have surrendered after the first, or before as they were contacted and warned what might happen, they were beaten already in reality but they wouldn't give up. I would rather 100 of them die than 1 allied soldier.

Answer 5

1. No, I do not regret the dropping of the 2 Atom
Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At the time,
the Japanese desrved it!!
2. I was 6 years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, a territory of the USA and I was 10 years old when the two Japanese cities were bombed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

It saved lives, both American and Japanese.

You can disagree with me on that; just know that you are disagreeing with fact.

I have had this debate with people before on YA and I systematically prove their hippy-******** wrong.

The bottom line is that the invasion of the Japanese home islands would have cost 1 million + Allied Casualties, and wiped out almost the entire population of Japan.

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To Frank R you stated "A few months back I read an article on how the Japanese proposed peace at the Yalta conference a few months before dropping the bomb. The reason the Americans refused was to show the Soviet Union our might."

The conference at Yalta you’re talking about I am familiar with. The Japanese proposed ceasing all military operations against the allies however their current government would have remained intact and this in effect would mean a cease fire for the time being not surrender.

GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT. This was an attempt by the Japanese government to get more time to rebuild not an attempt for an UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. Also the Emperor was attempting to end the conflict while the military was not. Who was in control of Japans people and armed forces? It really doesnt matter had Japan announced an unconditional surrender then the bombs wouldnt have been dropped your entire premise that the US is somehow to blame is just another complete fabrication.

I guess people like you want to degrade your own culture, and government. You want to create a boogieman when one doesn’t exist. Those bombs were dropped on an evil government and military-industrial society bend on dominating the entirety of Asia.

There was no ulterior motive aside from destroying Imperial Japan.

Answer 7

No, I didnt make an effort, I wasnt alive then.

I guess instead of the atom bomb we should have just used one of the 3 other plans-

1) An invasion that would have killed millions on Japanese through gunfire, naval bombardment, starvation, and dont forget the fact that the Japanese government was issuing weapons to all civilians...

2) Bombers flying nerve gas over Japanese cities with millions of casualties

3) Naval blockade leading to the starvation of millions.

Static defenses and Kamakaze attacks showed how the Japanese were willing to protect thier homeland.

Sure its easy for someone like you look backwards in tme with 20/20 vision and think happy thoughts about things, but its something else looking it in the face.

Answer 8

No. Why should Americans regret saving the buns of Europe? Bombing Hiroshima, and Nagasaki stopped WWII, Dude. I didn't know you wanted to speak Japanese, or German.

Answer 9

What people?
The OCTOGENARIANS?

I really can't work up a whole lot of emotion over a military decision made 62 years ago.

excerpt from link:
The invasion of Japan was to be no easy military undertaking and casualties were to be extremely heavy. Admiral William Leahy estimated that there would be over 250,000 Americans killed or wounded on Kyushu alone. General Charles Willoughby, MacArthur's Chief of Intelligence estimated that American casualties from the entire operation would be one million men by the fall of 1946. General Willoughby's own Intelligence staff considered this to be a conservative estimate.

http://home.att.net/~sallyann4/invasion2.html

That wasn't going to happen.

If the Japanese had been less fanatical, accepted reality, and laid down their arms..it would have turned out differently.

Russia would have invaded Northern Japan.

I'm Objective about it...i think.

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re:Russia would have invaded Northern Japan.

and then we might have dropped the atom bombs on Moscow and Leningrad.
What was left of them.
More likely we would have used them against Russians on Japanese soil.

Answer 10

I'm coming up on 4 years without making an atomic bomb. I think that's a very good effort!