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What were the pros and cons of dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
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∙ 9y ago
Making Japan surrender to end World War 2 was the only pro to the bombing.
The main cons are that 135,000 of mostly civilians died as a result, and in particular, the second bomb was probably not even necessary.
Lots of second guessing by people not having to live through the war is not really all that helpful, but it is good to reflect upon arguably bad decisions that have been made and to try not to repeat them.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoThey comment that Japan was war ruined and that he knew they were looking for peace. In the other hand, the comment was that the atomic bomb brought the end earlier.
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∙ 12y agoPresident Truman wanted to drop the bomb because he knew that Japan would surrender, but he didn't want to drop the bomb because he knew how affective it would be and how many people could die. the atomic bomb was still dropped.
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∙ 7y agoAfter the war was over the US could depend 100% on atomic bombs and that the conventional military forces could be completely gutted to allow him to balance the Federal budget. He believed that building atomic bombs and bombers would be cheaper than conventional military forces and that as we were the only country with atomic bombs nobody could threaten us without risking being destroyed by our atomic bombs.
Unfortunately Truman was more of a clerk than a military planner and completely failed to realize how gutting the conventional military would also interfere with development of the bombers and training the crews needed to deliver atomic bombs and that our main likely antagonist (the USSR) had a very capable air defence system already in place that would likely shoot down the majority of the bomber long before they could reach their targets to drop atomic bombs on. The US also had no real idea where any targets were in the USSR and no means of obtaining such information that was reliable.
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i know it stopped WWII and killed many of insist people.
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What are five pros and cons of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings?
i know it stopped WWII and killed many of insist people.
What were the cons of dropping the atomic bombs in World War 2?
Too many civilian casualties, the illness it brought and the devastation.
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First and foremost it ushered in the atomic age, with all of its pros and cons. In addition, the two bombs saved many lives in the USA, but killed around 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945. The estimates for an allied invasion of Japan were into the millions of casualties. There was an additional fear that the Japanese would begin a scorched earth policy. Without the two bombs, the war would have drug on for another year or longer. The suffering would have become much more dreadful for the Japanese and the allies would probably been forced to reduce Japan to little more than charred rock. The death toll would have surpassed any other campaign.
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Ended the war without killing a million Allied soldiers. Killed a lot of Japanese and began the "nuclear age".
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