Of course it could ! The americans could simply have chosen a non-populated island for the nuclear test !
Yes. The cities were bombed after the Japanese govt. refused to surrender.
If you mean by the US then Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Yes. The Empire of Japan was preparing to surrender in the summer of 1945 under the condition their Emperor could retain his office. The terms accepted after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were almost identical to those prior.
Well, there were 90,000-166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000-80,000 in Nagasaki that could not repair themselves. In other words, they died. Half of those died of radiation sickness which could put them in agony up to two weeks.
The sinking of Titanic was caused by an innumerable amount of factors, many of them unavoidable, but arguably, if any of them were different the tragedy could have been averted. The results of the actual collision, for example, were a million-to-one. A million-to-one.
no if this happened half the population would be dead and the other half burnt or injured
No, many other actions could have been taken instead of taking such dramatic extremes.
The Thanksgiving cooking crisis was averted when I found out I could have dinner catered.
A few places that you could go to are, Tokyo, Osaka, Hokkaido, Mt.Fuji, Sapparo, Hiroshima, Yokohama, Sendai, Miyako, Aomori, Hakodate, Nagasaki, Kyoto, Kobe, and Nagoya.
There was effectively no "fighting" involved in the bombings. By that point, the US had pretty much total air superiority and could bomb anywhere in Japan more or less at will.
Because Japan wasn't surrendering and the United States was left with two choices. They could either drop bombs on civilian cities in hopes of acquiring a Japanese surrender, or they could invade Japan. The U.S. estimated that an invasion of Japan could claim over 1,000,000 American lives, thus they decided to scare Japan into surrender through the atom bomb. The tactic worked and Japan soon surrendered after realizing the destructive power that America could instill
War - Edwin Starr, Before the Deluge - Jackson Browne, Hiroshima Nagasaki Russsian roulette - Moving Hearts.