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the decision to drop the bombs caused the Japanese surrender. This prevented massive casualties on both sides in the Operation Downfall invasion of Japan and from an otherwise prolonged war.
1 million American casualties 5 million Japanese casualties
The estimate were 100,000 casualties for the US.
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, and the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. President Truman was advised that if the U.S. launched a full-scale invasion of mainland Japan, the the U.S. would suffer as many as a million casualties. In order to bring the war to a quick ending and incur as few casualties as possible, Truman ordered the atomic bombing of Japan.
It was clear that Japan would defend its home territory, and it was estimated that there would be a million Allied casualties and probably 10 million Japanese in their last ditch defence. The atomic bombs caused about 200,000 Japanese casualties, and horrendous as this sounds, the atomic bombs were actually the most humane solution.
90,000-166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000-80,000 in Nagasaki.
To prevent a ground invasion of Japanese homeland with heavy casualties anticipated.
the decision to drop the bombs caused the Japanese surrender. This prevented massive casualties on both sides in the Operation Downfall invasion of Japan and from an otherwise prolonged war.
The casualties for the atomic bombs dropped onto Japan was 215,000 dead and 1,900 more dead after the war. The majority which died during post war was mainly due to solid cancer, it was reported that 1,700 died from solid and 200 died from Leukemia due to exposed of radiation from the atomic bomb drops in 1945.
See: Wikipedia World War II Casualties.
it would prevent high casualties that would be caused by an invasion of mainland japan
1 million American casualties 5 million Japanese casualties
The estimate were 100,000 casualties for the US.
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, and the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. President Truman was advised that if the U.S. launched a full-scale invasion of mainland Japan, the the U.S. would suffer as many as a million casualties. In order to bring the war to a quick ending and incur as few casualties as possible, Truman ordered the atomic bombing of Japan.
Yes. But not until late 1946 or early 1947, a couple million allied and Japanese military casualties, about an order of magnitude more Japanese civilian casualties, division of Japan into communist North Japan and free South Japan, total decimation of Japanese industry, etc.
It was clear that Japan would defend its home territory, and it was estimated that there would be a million Allied casualties and probably 10 million Japanese in their last ditch defence. The atomic bombs caused about 200,000 Japanese casualties, and horrendous as this sounds, the atomic bombs were actually the most humane solution.
The Americans believed that the Japanese would fight them every mile of the way to the homeland and that American forces would suffer many casualties, There is also the thought that America wanted to punish Japan for Pearl Harbour and also to warn the Soviets that they could be next if they became aggressive.