please, i like to hear your opinions.
2007-10-16 14:28:57 · 11 answers · asked by Chestudent 2 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
just brainstorming ideas for a school discussion
2007-10-16 14:39:41 · update #1
Yes.
Have you ever seen the plans for the invasion of Japan? Our planners estimated that the invasion of the Japanese home islands could result in as many as 400,000 to 800,000 Americans killed, perhaps as many as TWO MILLION Americans injured, and perhaps as many as FIVE TO TEN MILLION Japanese injured or killed.
The War Department ordered the production of 500,000 Purple Hearts while planning for that many casulties. We're STILL using those medals -- someone injured in Iraq tomorrow will receive a medal that was made during World War Two.
About 220,000 people died as a result of the Atomic bombs. That's a lot of people, but the death toll was much lower than the predicted millions killed and injured during an invasion.
2007-10-16 15:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by another_guy_named_steve 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually the US dropped two of them... and I think they were both nessicary.
War is a sad sad sad reality. The Japanese were a religiously facisous state desiring world conquest.
They were training their children how to fight in war, and in fact were proud of it, showing videos of weak american children playing happily in at playgrounds in their propoganda videos.
We needed to crush their spirits completely in order to save lives, we needed to end it quickly.
Russia was about to send it's troops into the area, had we not used the A-Bomb to end things quickly, the Russians would have done a great deal more to the japanese that any atomic bomb could have done.
Also - a nuclear bomb actually kills less than using a firestorm. Look up the bombing of Dresden, now THAT's destruction.
It wasn't a good thing, but it was the quickest and most effective way to end what could have been a very painful and bloody situation for both sides.
2007-10-16 14:45:12 · answer #2 · answered by tetrall 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Decode this lyrics " You raised me up"
That is the mystery of what the Liberation of Freedom for the good of mankind from after world war two were all about.
The answer will be expose in time.
Revealation 16.16
What do you think?
2007-10-16 21:06:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It's what ultimately ended World War Two.
2007-10-16 15:32:31 · answer #4 · answered by Ashley S 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hiroshima yes,Nagasaki no.More people were killed in the Tokyo firestorms from conventional bombing,than at Hiroshima.Which god was Oppenheimer praying to, when he said"Thank god it wasn't a dud"!?
2007-10-18 01:35:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe U.S. leaders felt it was necessary to end a war that might have gone for much longer. I also believe that many who made that decision now regret it, considering the terror that it has now unleashed on the world.
Even Oppenheimer expressed regrets.
2007-10-16 14:54:39 · answer #6 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes,they attacked us,first.
2007-10-16 17:44:17 · answer #7 · answered by peppersham 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is the point of a question like this?
2007-10-16 14:34:54 · answer #8 · answered by sundsqk321@sbcglobal.net 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you bet it was right. was it right for the japanese to sneak in and bomb pearl harbor?
2007-10-16 16:30:40 · answer #9 · answered by doctdon 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i don't think anything that happens during a war is "right".
2007-10-16 14:36:24 · answer #10 · answered by G 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋