was the atomic bomb a good choice?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

This question is asked very frequently here on Y!A.

Why does no one ever ask the question: "Was the Japanese invasion and occupation of Burma, the Caroline Islands, China, the Dutch East Indies, French Indonesia (Vietnam), the Gilbert Islands, Malaya (Malaysia), the Mariana Islands, New Guinea, Palau, the Philippines, Siam (Thailand), and the Solomon Islands a good idea?"

Why is this question is never asked?

Why are the 200, 000 innocent civilans of Hiroshima or Nagasaki more important than the millions that died in the Japanese invasion and occupation of the countries I listed above??

Personally I am tired of seeing only the one side to the story. It's time that people start looking at the other side of the story, and realize; for the Japanese crimes of invading and occupying the Asian countries above, and their treatment of their innocent civilians and P.O.W.s, and the punishment for not surrendering --the atomic bombs were a good choice.

Answer 3

It's a good question and I feel that there is nothing wrong with the atomic bomb accept where the same is used inappropriately causing innocent beings to suffer. Otherwise it is something we can also not avoid. Even in the bible where we read about the history of people of the ancient time where God intervened directly to human situation, you will see that if people became too difficult God would improvise his own ways of getting rid of such in wrath. I.e. God caused the earth to open and swallowed those who were against his prophet. He swept the egyptian army which went after the Israelite after the exodus. Today some people are a heck to others and when things are out of control there has to be a way out and so the coming up of atomic bomb was an idea to wellcome. We are just in a position to handle things out of God's wisdom and so this is just but a choice which to add on need to be governed by humanitarian rules all over the world.

Answer 4

I just watched the show " The War " by Ken Burns last night. They estimated that America would of suffered another 1 million casualties and Japanese casualties would of been about 5 million, military and civilian, if America had attacked the Japanese homelands.
The Atomic bombs killed an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 so in the long run I think it was a good choice, it saved many American and Japanese lives.

Answer 5

I cannot believe that it can be ethical. Soldiers killing soldiers is war (not that war is ethical or necessary, but merely a fact of life). A nation destroying thousands of innocent lives to expedite victory is immoral, from any standpoint. This is especially true since to many, victory over Japan seemed imminent after the fall of Nazi Germany.

I think the Atomic bomb was a convenient way of establishing superiority. Technology and tactics have always been dominating ideas in warfare, from ancient times on. Obviously, the power of godlike destruction becomes appealing to man, when wars are an extension of politics. To the mind of the political machine, the atomic bomb represented a means of enforcing idealogies. Even if the idealogies were perfectly ethical, is it worth it if one must cause destruction on such a massive scale to enforce them?

Answer 6

Depends on your point of view. It did much to help us, yet did so much to set the international world back. The bomb most certainaly established the US as the sole super power. However, it created an arms race that has left most of the world in turmoil. You might even say that the a-bomb is partly responsible for the current US-Iraq war.

Answer 7

I assume you mean at the end of WWII. Yes, it was. I wish we had had more and had dropped one on Tokyo, at least.

If you have people that fought and died in the Pacific theater, or people who fought and lived, then you are grateful to the men who developed it and the government that paid for it and the pilot that flew the plane and the bombardier that released it and just about everyone who had anything to do with it.

And don't whine about the civilians who died. Go and look at pictures of Nanking when the Japanese were there, or of the men of Bataan, or the Arizona memorial. They started it. We finished it.

Answer 8

I believe everyone has forgotten what was about to happen during WW2. My father along with four (4) million men, my father fought for over two (2) years in Europe, was wounded ones already. Was en route to Japan.

The Emperor of Japan gave the order for every Japanese citizen to arm themselves with anything that would kill and attack the Allies on the beaches at every cost to themselves, they had sharpened stakes when they ran out of swords and used butcher knives and sharpened butter knives. They were told the American would "eat" them when the captured them, they were all ready to die for the emperor.
The mothers, like on Okinawa throwing their children over the cliffs, were ready to kill their children so the Americans wouldn't capture them.

All you righteous people out there that know little of your history, go to the library and look up the facts of WW2 and what really happen, the Okinawa killings and what happen.

Better the Japanese to die then all our American men that had fought for so many years across Europe and the Pacific, they also had rights and, the right to come home. It brought my father home to us, I would have it done again.

It was estimated that about one million men woud be killed and another two million wounded, with about four million Japanese killed and wounded.

Answer 9

Absolutely. It saved over half a million American lives that would have been wasted if we had to invade Japan.

Answer 10

at 8:15am the bomb was droped on japanese.

8+15=23

on

9-11-2001 the twin towers fell

9+11+2+1=23

4-20-2007

4-20 is 16 + 7 = 23

!!EVERYTHING IS 23!!