What are some good and bad things about the atomic bomb being dropped on Japan?

Answer 1

the cons of dropping the bomb on Hiroshima were that many people were either killed or they were infected with lukimia whichcaused mutations in the babies that had an infected mother. the disease comes from the radiation given off by the bomb. it is estimated that 25.5% of the people were killed.

Answer 2

At the end of World War II, few questioned Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans accepted the obvious reasoning: the atomic bombings brought the war to a more timely end. They did not have a problem with over one hundred thousand of the enemy being killed. After all, the Japanese attacked America, and not the other way around. In later years, however, many have begun to question the conventional wisdom of "Truman was saving lives," putting forth theories of their own. However, when one examines the issue with great attention to the results of the atomic bombings and compares these results with possible alternatives to using said bombs, the line between truth and fiction begins to clear. Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan was for the purpose of saving lives and ending the war quickly in order to prevent a disastrous land invasion.

Answer 3

• Japan was ready to call it quits anyway. More than 60 of its cities had been destroyed by conventional bombing, the home islands were being blockaded by the American Navy, and the Soviet Union entered the war by attacking Japanese troops in Manchuria.
• American refusal to modify its "unconditional surrender" demand to allow the Japanese to keep their emperor needlessly prolonged Japan's resistance.
• A demonstration explosion over Tokyo harbor would have convinced Japan's leaders to quit without killing many people.
• Even if Hiroshima was necessary, the U.S. did not give enough time for word to filter out of its devastation before bombing Nagasaki.
• The bomb was used partly to justify the $2 billion spent on its development.
• The two cities were of limited military value. Civilians outnumbered troops in Hiroshima five or six to one.
• Japanese lives were sacrificed simply for power politics between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
• Conventional firebombing would have caused as much significant damage without making the U.S. the first nation to use nuclear weapons.

Answer 4

Bad: Tens of thousands of Japanese civilians & military were killed or died later.

Good: Japan surrendered.....

this saved hundreds of thousands or millions of lives in Japan and across Asia & Pacific. WW2 ended.

Answer 5

Mostly because of the civilian casualties.

Answer 6

because it killed loads and loads of people and the radiation is still there now radiation causes deformities e.g extra limbs

Answer 7

It caused the first outbreak of AIDS and created Savile