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Reasons to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
1. The US was at war with Japan. It was a very destructive, painful war with high casualties, and the US was prepared to use any means necessary to win.
2. One could argue that if Japan had not wanted to be bombed by the US, Japan should not have bombed Pearl Harbor. The fact that the US had bigger bombs than Japan was all to the good, from the US point of view. The US was making a point, that it is not a good idea to attack the US (although as we have seen, not everybody has gotten that message).
3. The USSR declared war on Japan 3 weeks prior to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they had already seized one small Japanese island. It should be noted that Russia continues to occupy that island to this day, which remains a source of friction between Russia and Japan. Since the USSR had already overrun Eastern Europe (and did not relinquish control until 1989) and it appeared that they intended to do the same to Japan, it seemed prudent for the US to bring the war with Japan to a rapid conclusion, and the atomic bomb certainly helped to do just that. The Cold War was already underway, even before WW II was entirely over.
4. It is often noted that had the US not used the atomic bomb to force a rapid surrender by Japan, the alternative was a landing of US troops on the shores of Japan, which, much like the Normandy invasion of Europe, would have been a costly maneuver in which many American lives would have been lost.
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∙ 16y agoTwo resions are,
1) Shortly after, Japan surrendered!
2) It was a one way fight, we were fighting, and not getting hurt.
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What is dropping the bomb moral debate?
Wikipedia has a good article about which I posted it in the related links box below.
What is often cited as a reson for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan?
To bring the war to an end more quickly and to avoid the loss of life and destruction of infrastructure that would be incurred in an invasion of the Japanese home islands. That's a good answer but maybe there were less obvious reasons- perhaps having developed a new, major weapon there was a temptation to try it out. Dropping one might be justified by military hardliners but the second bomb needs another set of reasons.
What did the US do when the first atomic bomb drop did not happen?
If you are asking about what happened in the next 3 days?Then the United States decided to drop the next atomic bomb on the city of kobe.When the aircraft arrived over the city the visibility was not good enough to bomb this city and it was decided to bomb the secondary target,which turned out to be Nagasaki.This was done on the date of August 9th,1945.
Was a leaflet dropped on Nagasaki before the bomb was dropped to warn everybody to evacuate?
AnswerLeaflets were dropped on many of the major cities in Japan. Along with the official word to the Japanese government that terrible destruction would be rained down upon the cities of Japan if they did not surrender. What is very telling is that Nagasaki was the second city to be bombed with the atomic bomb.
What were the succesess and failures on dropping the atomic bomb?
The only good thing I can think of was that it ended the war quickly. The bad thing was that it exacted a tremendous toll on innocent civilians .
What is dropping the bomb moral debate?
Wikipedia has a good article about which I posted it in the related links box below.
What were the possibilities on bombing hiroshima?
All the possibilities were good which brought back the Enola gay whole after dropping the atomic bomb.
What is often cited as a reson for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan?
To bring the war to an end more quickly and to avoid the loss of life and destruction of infrastructure that would be incurred in an invasion of the Japanese home islands. That's a good answer but maybe there were less obvious reasons- perhaps having developed a new, major weapon there was a temptation to try it out. Dropping one might be justified by military hardliners but the second bomb needs another set of reasons.
What did the US do when the first atomic bomb drop did not happen?
If you are asking about what happened in the next 3 days?Then the United States decided to drop the next atomic bomb on the city of kobe.When the aircraft arrived over the city the visibility was not good enough to bomb this city and it was decided to bomb the secondary target,which turned out to be Nagasaki.This was done on the date of August 9th,1945.
Was a leaflet dropped on Nagasaki before the bomb was dropped to warn everybody to evacuate?
AnswerLeaflets were dropped on many of the major cities in Japan. Along with the official word to the Japanese government that terrible destruction would be rained down upon the cities of Japan if they did not surrender. What is very telling is that Nagasaki was the second city to be bombed with the atomic bomb.
What were the succesess and failures on dropping the atomic bomb?
The only good thing I can think of was that it ended the war quickly. The bad thing was that it exacted a tremendous toll on innocent civilians .
How many POW's died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Good question. Actually, little is known that twelve American prisoners of war lost their lives by the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima. That is the number.
Why was it good to drop the bomb in world war 2?
The advantage of dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (I assume that this is what you are referring to) was that it made the Japanese surrender and brought the war to an end very quickly, when the Japanese were determined to fight to the end.
What were the good outcomes for the dropping of the atomic bomb in japan World War II?
Those bombs made the war end and collapsed Japan's means war ever again.
Why did president Truman not do a good job?
Wither or not he did a good job is an opinion. He dropped the atom bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which is why most people think he did a "bad job" even though he ended WWI by doing so.
What were 3 bad reasons for dropping the atom bomb?
Firstly, to end WW2 as soon as possible. By using a nuke (atom bomb), it has saved a potential of another 3 more months of WW2 as in Japanese offical record. (Some Japanese fell that by September to November, Japanese might have surrendered but defintely would not refuse to surrender after the year 1945.) This 3 months might make the Japs more cruel to China, SEA (South East Asia), Pacific and Korea for "revenging." Secondly, to save many soldiers life, especially US and to punish the Japs severly for the attack of Pearl Harbor. Thirdly, possibly to test the Uranium bomb. Note: Before the actual use of nuke, the US had tested a plutonium (now man-made element as it had extinct) bomb in a desert. The US had enough supply of Plutonium and therefore, a uranium bomb was not able to test as the number of uranium US have is only enough for a bomb. Hence, the bombing of Hiroshima is a good test for them. (The Nagasaki one , Fat Man was again a Plutonium Bomb.)
What are the good and bad points of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Dropping the atomic bomb was a bad thing because it brought the Japanese to a very bad state and the radiation affected people into having poor babies. It was very hard to bring back Japan into a normal state The good thing was that it restored a lot of places in the world to peace. The atomic bomb forced the Japanese to surrender stopping them doing anything worse or getting stronger so someday, will be able to attack other places with large military such as America.
