Atomic Bomb - why CIVILIANS??

Question

2 questions:

1. Why did the USA bomb japanese CIVILIANS instead of japanese SOLDIERS???

2. why did they bomb nagasaki? hiroshima bomb killed lots of people, so why drop another??

Answer 1

1-For money, Us had the bombs and the US contractors who made the bombs received money for each used bomb.
2- To show power to the rest of the world.
Us drop the bombs when Japan was ready to surrender.
"A half-century ago, Japan was made into a nuclear target, by a secret group with anti-human theories, who took control of Anglo-U.S. policy after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR and General MacArthur opposed the use of the bomb against defeated Japan, in fact, as senseless and inhumane. But Sir Winston Churchill and co-thinkers, such as U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, convinced the fool Harry S Truman to use the bomb, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki".

Answer 2

Actually, those cities were part of the Japanese war effort, in fact one had a Naval Base.

The reason two were dropped was to show Japan that we had the capabilities to drop on more than one city, and show that if they didn't surrender, we would continue to drop the bomb.

Being a civilian is not an exemption from war, the Japanese killed, tortured and held several civilians as captives.

Civilians are a vital resource to a war, they make the machines, grow the food and produce other war goods. By going after the supplies and the workforce that produces them is a standard strategy of war.

Answer 3

Those "civilians" were employed in making weapons for the Japanese Military.

The same Japanese military that took great pleasure in killing men, women and children, P.O.W.s in:

China, Burma, Korea, Indo-China, Indonesia / Malaysia, Hawaii, Borneo, Philippines's and various other Pacific Islands.

The Japanese were warned they would be bombed if they did not unconditionally surrender, they choose to ignore the offer, after Hiroshima they were offered a second chance, they said NO!, they did not believe the Allies had a second bomb!!

This was used over Nagasaki another weapons producing city of the Japanese.

Before you start crying over the poor Japanese, try researching what the Japanese did to the civilians in the countries they occupied,, murder, rape, and looting were order of the day!

Answer 4

They couldn't kill enough soldiers to make them surrender if they bombed soldiers, and the Japanese were drafting people from the general population so almost all those people (women and children included) would have fought to the death, if we invaded the Japanese mainland

As to why we dropped the second will the first one didn't get them to surrender so why not as it still saved lives on both sides. Look at other pacific battles late in the war and you will see casualties would be much higher for us and them (course more american live than japaneses were saved)

Luckily they had no idea that the second one was all we had and another one would take almost a year to build

Answer 5

Because the Japanese people were fanatical. When the US troops landed on Okinawa thousands of Japanese civilians killed themselves in fear of the Americans. The ones that did not took up arms with farm tools and tried to attack the US soldiers.

It was estimated that over a million US troops would be lost in trying to invade Japan so they decided to just bomb them instead of filling 1 million US body bags.

Answer 6

1. Because Hiroshima and Nagasaki both had military complexes which made them legitimate targets.

2. Same as above- and because the Japanese had not yet surrendered.

I guess the moral of the story is- don't sneak attack and your country won't get nuked. I wish they would have dropped 20 bombs on these cowardly sneak attacking scum. -Pearl Harbor ring a bell?

Answer 7

all Japanese citizens were members of the armed forces reserve so they were technically all military so in fact no civilians were targeted.

why the second bomb? did they surrender after the first one? no, so therefore a second bomb was needed.

Answer 8

Because the United States wanted to show the Japanese military that we would continue to fight until they surrendered or they all died. As far as why we needed to drop another nuke, It was part of the President's order. We would continue to bomb until they surrendered. They surrendered so we quit bombing.

Answer 9

That is a good question: Why did the Japanese put major military assets in populated areas?

The civilians were not attacked, they were given fair warning to evacuate. Their own government prevented that evacuation.

Answer 10

As these answers continue, I'm sure that somehow people will try and blame Bush, Cheney and Haliburton for it dropping the bombs and ending the war

Answer 11

The Second Army was headquartered at Hiroshima. The 102nd IMB was stationed at Nagasaki. Neither city was 100% simon-pure civilian.