Why did America drop a atomic bomb on hiroshima?

Answer 1

1. America attacked Hiroshima as an act of revenge for them attacking Pearl Harbor.

2. Because America and Japan were engaged in a war & because there was a military base in Hiroshima

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.

Another view.

Dropping the first bomb was, perhaps, justifiable. Dropping the second was to warn the USSR. The US was aware that after the war there would be a power struggle with the USSR.

Answer 3

Japan and the US were at war, Japan having attacked the US. If the US invaded mainland Japan to end the war, it was estimated it would cause the death of about 1 million US and Allied service members. Japan refused to surrunder until two atomic weapons were dropped on Japan.

Answer 4

To end the war and to collapse Japan's means to make war ever again.

Answer 5

To end the war and to collapse Japan's means of making war ever again.

Answer 6

To try and weaken or scare Japan so much they would surrender. it was pretty much "Revenge for Pearl Harbor"

Answer 7

To end the war.