Does anyone hear of the "Manhattan II Action"? I read an article which states that the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a rumor, no real atomic bombs were dropped in Japan. It was a psychological warfare to send fake information to Japan and force it to surrender as soon as possible.
Any idea? Who knows the truth?
2007-10-09 21:39:57 · 20 answers · asked by samurai 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It is said that what the United States dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were common bombs, not atomic bombs. The United States did it just in order to make Japan believe atomic attacks over Hiroshima and Nagasaki is true.
2007-10-09 21:50:08 · update #1
The intense fires were created by common bombs not atomic bombs.
2007-10-09 21:51:37 · update #2
The video footage and photographic record was actually the scenario when The First Atomic Bomb Blast in New Mexico.
2007-10-09 22:01:54 · update #3
They did drop atomic bombs. It did happen. Not just intense heat but radiation as well. There's still people alive today who saw it, who saw the mushroom cloud, who lived through the horror of the first blast, the resulting radiation and the "black rain" about an hour or two afterwards. Also the years and years afterwards of children being born deformed, extraordinary high rates of cancer, etc.
The proof is there, its not doctored footage. What is it with conspiracy theories and the human mind? Besides, why do you want to disprove it? Does it really in the long run make a difference whether it was an atom bomb or not? The fire-bombing of Tokyo actually killed more people than either of the atom bombs did.
2007-10-09 22:28:49 · answer #1 · answered by Jingizu 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Along with the daily Hitler questions, we also get the daily Atomic Bomb (Hiroshima & Nagasaki) questions. I find it intriguing that so many people are perpetually fascinated with one person and one event, while the majority of the people and events of World War II go unspoken. I would say from these two topics alone we are no closer to understanding the events or the people involved in World War II.
I must admit your question is original, since the others only ask if dropping the atomic bombs on Japan was the correct thing to do. Perhaps you could give the people you are asking here more information (who, when, where) about the article you read. I do not know the truth, I just know there are several ways to find out what the truth is.
2007-10-10 00:53:21 · answer #2 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No - I don't think it was a war crime. It didn't matter to the people of Japan that they were already losing the war, they were prepared to fight and die down to the very last person. The nuclear bombs were used to stop the fighting. Yes many innocent people died, but perhaps less than the millions of civilians who were preparing to fight the allied soldiers should they set foot on Japanese soil. If you want to talk about war crimes, perhaps you should review what the Japanese military did to the Chinese, the native Filipinos, and to captured soldiers. And if you have lived in Japan for 2 years, why do you refer to them as "Japs?" That is an insensitive almost racist term. Your question and terms of reference are inconsistent.
2016-04-08 00:36:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under US President Harry S. Truman. On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, followed on August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are the only uses of nuclear weapons in warfare.
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2007-10-09 21:57:53 · answer #4 · answered by faisal4amin 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Yes, we really did. The video footage and photographic record shows it, the deaths and devastation from it we're real. It was real.
I did a yahoo, google, and wikipedia search on "Manhattan II Action," and came up with nothing.
2007-10-09 21:46:48 · answer #5 · answered by Mnementh 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It is true. Have you read 'Sadako and the Thousand Paper cranes'? If not, it's based on a true story of a girl who even after nearly hundreds of years after the atomic bomb was dropped, she suffered from Leukimeia. Over 100,000 people died in an instant as soon as the bomb was dropped. A death of so many could not be fake.
2007-10-09 21:45:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
oh yeah it really happened.
just read the book "shockwave" by stephen walker. the book contain documentations about where, when, and how did the atomic bomb was created... there are also pictures there as proofs and interview dialogues from the persons who were still alive today that had witnessed the making of the atomic bomb and the attack...
2007-10-09 23:51:15 · answer #7 · answered by AeXanzzZ_gurL 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes it happened. The development of these weapons was known as the, "Manhattan Project".
2007-10-09 21:47:32 · answer #8 · answered by tom 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It happened, we did that.
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Conspiracies claiming that massive events never happened abound. Off the top of my head: moon landing, Holocaust, Oswald shot JFK. It's crazy. Ten years from now, they'll say that terrorists never flew planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan.
2007-10-09 22:29:43 · answer #9 · answered by Diana 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes , people were still dying from radiation sickness for years after.
2007-10-10 05:33:56 · answer #10 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋