was the second atomic bomb on Japan necessary assuming that the first one was ?

Question

how would you describe such an act?

Answer 1

yes is was necessary because it made japan surrender

Answer 2

Americans have always rationalized this by saying that dropping those bombs saved lives. It did shorten the war, thus trading American fatalities for Japanese fatalities, and we were in the war to win it, which we did.

I think the most important thing that dropping those bombs accomplished is that, for the first time, we understood the consequences of nuclear power. People died flaming, horrible deaths and the survivors were left with disfiguring scars and ruined lives.

It was either an attack to bring finality to a long, brutal war or an atrocity, or perhaps both. I believe Harry Truman carried the weight of this until his death and no one should trivialize the burden of this decision, nor glorify it. Instead, we should use this knowledge to try to avoid nuclear war, at all costs, and work toward peaceful solutions to world problems.

Answer 3

Why stop at two .
Is that because it was all we had ready at the time .
We had to offer a big cash bonus just to get living Japanese soldiers . Seems before 1944 in every engagement with Japan not a single survivor or wounded man was left alive .

Sneak attacks always end badly when guns are involved .
Back then a lot of people where an eye for an eye sort and justices was dealt from the end of a gun barrel to the head of every Japanese soldier .

Lucky they managed to surrender at all and still survive .
They had only tried to on several occasions prior to the first bomb being dropped and those attempts ended in failure .

Seems it can take a few months to surrender properly .

Answer 4

The very use of the first A-bomb has given the license to anyone who has it to use it if they deem it necessary. The precedent was set. By the time the BOMB was used, the war was winding down and many serious historians have questioned its use.

Answer 5

Yahoo! Answers user "Me, Too" said that "....we understood the consequences of nuclear power." I want people to understand the difference between nuclear weapons and nuclear power. I work in a nuclear plant that uses nuclear power. Although many of the bombs use the same isotope to aid in detonation as they do to produce nuclear power there are vast differences in the inherent stability and structure of the Rx and the Bombs. There's only a few places on Earth that you can say I work in Rx Plant and sleep with a Nuclear Bomb at my feet and I say it. I do have a little knowledge on the differences.

Answer 6

First of all, Japan was also working on "the Bomb", we just beat them to it. If we had told them we had completed the bomb and threatened it's use on their cities...followed by a rapid withdrawal of large numbers of our forces being a clear indication it was not a bluff, they would have surrendered. Murdering the hundreds of thousands of innocents was simply not worth the use of this weapon. Children are still being born deformed even to this day. The remaining families of these people still suffer... but hey all in the name of freedom and democracy huh? What if it was YOUR family???

Even Einstien himself regretted both suggesting and playing a role in the creation of this weapon.

Answer 7

Japan agreed to the surrender only after the second bomb was detonated. They would not agree to it before that.

I would describe it as a necessary evil.

Answer 8

When you are in a war and your future is at stake you do what it takes to win. No one can see the future or gage the determination of the enemy. We had the bombs and no one really knew just what they would do.

Weren't both bombs dropped in the same mission? No, I looked it up, They were three days apart. I do know that none of the pilots knew which was carrying the atomic bombs. They all flew their mission and delivered their payloads.

Hind sight may be twenty twenty but foresight is not. We did what we could to win as we should always do.

Answer 9

As someone who has been to japan and seen the museums that showed films and books of training school kids to attack american G.I.'s the atomic bombs were necessary.

The invasion of japan would have killed 2.5 million people scholars and historians believe.

My Great uncle was in a p.o.w. camp in japan and beaten and starved and tortured. He and his fellow civilian workers deserved rescue.

The second atomic bomb was necessary because they still vowed to fight on.

Answer 10

Yes absolutely, the japanese had the chance to surrender after the first one, they didn;t take the chance so there you are. Iraq had a chance to cooperate or else, for about a year.
Iran is now being given the same chance and hopefully they heed the warnings seriously. I am against any war but its unthinkable for some fanatic islamic ayatollah or mullah to be in possession of one nuke which they might or might not commit suicide with. Do we take the chance ?

Answer 11

In the words of one of the most famous historians of all time, Arthur Schlesinger, '... was an act of pure evil...' This was his view on the USA dropping the atom bombs on Japan.

I agree.