Why was America right to drop the bomb on hiroshima?

Answer 1

There is no way to be sure that the actions of the United States in using atomic weapons were 'right'. The only real justification of the Hiroshima bomb was the unwillingness of Japan to surrender without invasion of the home islands, which would have resulted in millions of causalities on both sides. The Nagasaki bomb was unneeded, as Japan was already suing for peace. The U. S. military just wanted to see if it would work.

Answer 2

During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt created a massive, top secret research effort called "The Manhattan Project" to attempt to build the world's first atomic bomb for possible use against Germany and Japan, our enemies during the war. Germany and Japan were also conducting their own secret atomic bomb projects in similar attempts to develop atomic bombs for possible use against the United States. Germany surrendered to the allies in May, 1945, before any countries were successful in their attempts to develop the first atomic bomb. President Roosevelt died in April 1945. President Harry Truman succeeded him and ordered that the United States continue to work on the Manhattan Project while the war against Japan continued. In July, 1945, the United States conducted a successful test explosion of the world's first atomic bomb in the desert in New Mexico. The United States was not yet prepared to invade Japan to end the war. Military leaders anticipated that the United States would suffer heavy casualties in the planned invasion because Japanese forces had fought to the death rather than surrender in battles with the United States. President Truman decided to try to force Japan to surrender without having to invade them, in an effort to avoid more American casualties. He ordered that an atomic bomb be dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in August, 1945. Japan still refused to surrender. Three days later, President Truman ordered that a second atomic bomb be dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Japan surrendered in September, 1945.

Answer 3

It was a good thing because Japan, though the fire bombing of Tokyo did a lot of damage to Japanese civilian area and was supposed to decrease morale, it only worked to increase their anti- American sentiment. The vast majority of the Japanese Army, including nearly all of the generals and the emperor, had the fight to the death mentality and would not surrender until they were dead. That is why America dropped the Nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to prove that they had the power to destroy their entire country in a relatively swift and effective manner

Answer 4

United States of America came to war because the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The war was long and it has been the war that lost so many lives. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only cases of a nuclear device used against man kind and President Truman claimed responsibility for the use of those bombs. Most persons think he was right but a few are against the decision. Anyways, once a bomb explodes, no one can turn the clock back.

Answer 5

To end the war ASAP.