Was the atomic bomb dropped before the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

Answer 1

No. The Atomic Bombs were dropped to convince Japan to surrender, and it worked as planned.

Surrender was hateful to the Japanese, as part of their warrior culture. In every battle across the Pacific the Japanese fought to the very last man, and all had to be killed, or committed suicide themselves. There were never more than a handful of prisoners taken, and many of those were wounded and helpless, or unconscious when taken. Many of the others were Koreans, taken from their homeland (which Japan overran in 1909) and forced to labor building fortifications and pillboxes of the islands the Japanese held in the Pacific. As soon as the US invasion fleet appeared over the horizon off these islands the position of the Japanese ashore was utterly and completely hopeless, but there was never any thought whatsoever of doing the sensible, reasonable thing and surrendering.

The last island the US invaded before readying to move on to invading the Japanese Home Islands was Okinawa. Okinawa is considered part of Japan, even though it is 300 miles south of the main Japanese islands. Both on Okinawa and on Saipan the previous year, there were sizable numbers of Japanese civilians. These killed themselves by the thousands rather than be occupied by the Americans. Mothers threw their babies off a cliff and then leaped after on Saipan, at a place still called Suicide Cliff. Off Okinawa sailors on the ships offshore were issued rifles to shoot holes in the bodies of the civilians floating among the fleet, trying to make them sink, because they were so numerous it was feared they would foul the ships propellers.

The Japanese fought even more viciously on Okinawa than they had before, and were planning to raise it another notch when Americans came ashore in Japan proper. They were forcing civilian women to drill daily with bamboo spears, and were indoctrinating them to run at American soldiers when they saw them and try to stab one before they were, inevitably, killed themselves. They were planning on making the American effort to take Japan an absolute bloodbath, and no doubt whatsoever they would have. American estimates of the casualties from the first invasion of the first main Japanese island in November, 1945 were one million. And these were only the Americans; it was assumed that ALL the Japanese would have to be killed.

The Atomic Bombs allowed the Japanese to think that surrender was acceptable, and prevented the huge slaughter which would have followed the invasion.

Answer 2

Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) STARTED WWII for the United States, making it a "Global War." Hiroshima & Nagasaki (August 6 & 9, 1945) ENDED WWII.

Answer 3

After the bombing of pearl harbor the USA bombed Nagasaki Japan, not Tokyo. That is if you are talking about the nuclear bomb.

Answer 4

1. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
2. The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 almost four years later.

Answer 5

After Pearl Harbor

Answer 6

Yes. Those bombs were rigged to do that.