What type leader who can order atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Question

Can’t we say he heartless or barbaric?
Can’t we say people who support it are inhuman?
Can’t we say it was a holocaust for Japanese?

Answer 1

It was a heartless and inhumane leader
Payback they called it. Stupid!
The Japanese killed their soldiers, they killed Japanese people
Isn't it stupid
Like when WTC was bombed (yess it was bombed and hit by missiles not aeroplanes) then they bombed the whole Afghanistan just to find Osama (but still couldn;t find him... isn;t it stupid? Even Saddam they can find....)
Later they said they would like to get Saddam, then the whole nation of Iraq is suffering becuase of that?
STUPID DECISION!
Think of your own stomach!
Those leaders they always think of their life and if they have to kill to be in their comfortable sofas at home, they will do it.

Answer 2

The kind of leader who's been told the enemy will never surrender and knows roughly how costly a full invasion of the Japanese homeland would have been in US lives.
In spite of the thousands of Japanese killed by the bombs, it's very likely that the act saved not only thousands of American soldiers, but very likely thousands more Japanese.

Japan would have defended the islands to the last person. Only a message a big as a nuclear detonation could have caused Japan to surrender.

However, it was still a shameful act, and it was a holocaust for the Japanese. Whatever else Japan is guilty of from WW2, it still remains a holocaust. The deeds of the nation do not make it less of holocaust.

Answer 3

Well you really need to go study your history my friend, your question really shows your ignorance!!! What the Japanese are now the victim of WWII? Granted that they where civilians but they had blind obedience to their Emperor and government. Go to China and ask them how many Chinese where killed by the Japanese during WWII. Go to Korea and ask the same question. Go to the Philippines and ask the question. Go to any number of Asian countries and ask this question. The Japanese killed a lot more civilians by a long shot than the two Atomic bombs that the Americans dropped on Japan.

Japan was a defeated country by the time America dropped the bomb on Japan. The problem was they were going to fight to the last man if there was an invasion of Japan. By conservative estimates thousands and thousands of Americans would have died during such an invasion of the Japanese mainland. More Japanese civilians would have died than the combined total of the victims of the two atomic bombings. In a since Japan was a defended boxer that would not go down. They left America very little options.

Also, on a more sinister note the Russians where coming and if they got involved with an invasion of Japan we would have seen the same thing you see in Korea and Germany, a country that was split.

No you can’t say it was a Holocaust for Japan!


Cheers

Answer 4

He was neither heartless nor inhuman. He was trying to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of his own soldiers. No one really understood the kind of devastation that would take place. They knew it would be bad, but in those days they did not understand the long term effects of radiation.

Was it the right thing to do? Maybe not. But the Japanese had already caused the deaths of many thousands of Americans. Your perspective might be different if it was your sons, fathers and brothers that were at risk.

The Japanese could have surrendered after the first bomb. They didn't. It took a second.

And last, it was an act of war. America was under attack, the Japanese had attacked American holdings and American mainland. We had a right to defend ourselves. No Jews, gypsys, Armenians, Slavs, Poles had attacked Hitler or Germany so no, you can't compare it to the Nazi holocaust. And relative to that, have you checked into Japan's record on torture of prisoners and medical experimentation on them and have a look at the Bataan Death March too while you're at it. The Japanese didn't suffer any worse than the people of the Phillipines and other island nations they subjugated and the soldiers that tried to defend them.

History is rarely all black and white.

Oh and by the way, if you want to know about the man who made the decision, read the letters he wrote to his wife while he was a young man and then president. His daughter published a book of them and maybe if you read them, you will get a better picture of a true leader.

Answer 5

Use of the atomic bomb was a huge decision that no one here has the qualifications to make. I damn sure wouldn't want to have had to make that decision. Truman's responsibility was to the American people and the nation's fighting men. He had to decide how to end the war as quickly as possible with the fewest American, not enemy, casualties. If you haven't studied your history, you don't know jack about it.

Want heartless and barbaric? Learn what the Japanese did in Nanking, China in 1938 when they raped females as young as 5 years old, looted, and burned most of the city. Learn how the Japanese treated Allied POWs, how they were routinely starved, denied medical supplies or attention, worked to death, tortured, and shot without cause. Learn about the Bataan Death March, a forced march of Allied POWS where the Japanese shot or bayoneted the ill, weak, or those too exhausted to make the 90 mile march. More than 10,000 POWs were killed during that march. These are but a few of the atrocities carried out by the Japanese military.

Yes, the use of the atomic weapons was a horrible event, but in the long run, it saved Allied and Japanese lives.

Before you start spouting the kind of moronic nonsense you posted, you better know both sides of the story.

Answer 6

Realistic... How many more people would have died on both sides had the war continued? Thousands? Hundreds of Thousands? Yes, it was a hard thing to do. The bombings quickened the end of the war, and that was the main thing the US wanted. To end a war they did not start.

I am sure the Veterans, Friends, Family Members of those lost at Pearl Harbor wonder about Heartless, Barbaric, Inhuman, and a Holocaust too.........

Answer 7

what type of an army pack rapes women after killing their babies with a bayonet?

What type of an army throws a live new born baby over a cliff before pack raping the mother, who has just given birth?

What type of an army takes Australian prisoners of war and uses live men as bayonet practice?

What type of people will stave people to death because the colour of their skin was different?

What type of people will make slaves of people to build a railway thorough Thailand at a cost of one human life for every three railway sleepers laid?

Lesson in history, idiot; the atomic bomb was dropped to stop the might of the Russian army from entering into the pacific. The Russian army suffered a hugh lose of face when japan stood up to Russia at the turn of the century and punched Russian in the nose. The Russians were very interested in the notion of revenge over this incident. have a look at the history of Latvia and see how vindictive the average russia is.

The person who ordered the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima was a pragmatic man who sacrificed the lives of these people to save the lives of a whole lot more.

Japan got what it deserved, and deserves no sympathy. Your an idiot for asking this type of question.

Answer 8

You can say all those things, but it would have been FAR worse for the people of Japan if they hadn't been shocked into surrendur by the atomic bombs.

* Consider every city getting the 1000 bomber raids like Tokyo or Dresden that killed 100,000 people in one night....

* Consider the Soviet Union having control of a communist puppet state of 'Eastern Japan' the same as in Eastern Europe (as agreed by Roosevelt and Churchil at the Tehran and Yalta Conferences when Stalin agreed to join an Allied assault on Japan and help form the United Nations)

* Consider that the US rebuilt Japan, and made them the economic superpower they are in Asia today.

So yes, they were barbaric - but in fact those bombs actually saved civilian Japanese lives, as well as the 1 million projected allied and Japanses service casualties ....

As Truman said, it was just a bigger piece of artillery so we used it.

For more info on the incredible assault planned to finish the war without the bombs, look at Operation Downfall.

Hope that helps

Philip

Answer 9

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were trivialities compared to Tokyo which was fire-bombed with the deaths of far more people than have ever died through the use of nuclear technoolgy.

Dresden in Germany also got bombed worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

But if Japan had developed the Bomb first and had a way to drop it on the US, would they have done so? The answer is pretty obviously yes.

Answer 10

Not that I condone what was done but if the war lingered on more people would have eventually died on both sides and most likely alot of the people that died in the bombings would have been made into citizen soldiers and died in the war anyway.

Still it was a bit of overkill when you take into account all the innocents involved. Though I suspect if Japan would have had nuke technology at their disposal during that time they would have destroyed countless cities without remorse.

Answer 11

If a bomb is heartless, what is death by the sword or by starvation, or forced labour and death through dysentary. Barbaric? Heartless? Inhuman? The Japs were paid back in full at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and they know it!