What would have happened to the US and Japan if the atomic bomb had not been dropped in World War 2?

Answer 1

Japan had been defeated before we dropped the bomb, but the Emperor refused to surrender. Japanese soldiers continued to hold many of the islands in the Pacific and even the islands that they had lost were still inhabited by soldiers who hid in caves and came out to kill Allied troops. The Navy of Japan had been pretty much wiped out. They had no fuel little fuel to operate the few ships that were left, yet the Japanese people refused to give up, thinking that they could defeat the Allies when we sent landing parties to Japan. Actually, the Japanese leadership did not care how many of their citizens were killed during a landing attempt, they figured we would give up and go home in view of that many deaths. Their people were already in pretty bad shape from the war. The regular bombing of the Japanese industrial cities killed far more people than the N bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All because the emperor refused to surrender. The nuclear weapons where considered live saving because a usa invasion would have been catastrophic. though the death toll would not have reached the same if they had invaded.this is an example of the allies and us policy for the next 50 years of policy. if they wouldn't have been droped the allies would not of been able to take japan home islands. even if they had them under militarized control the Japanese people would have rebeled.

Besides all these important facts, the US dropped the bombs to show the world what an attack to the US could turn into. It worked for 56 years until the attack on the twin towers in 2001

Answer 2

A prolonged war in the Pacific, with the Japanese Empire probably remaining "stable" (meaning present and existing) in the countries it had already conquered for some years, before succumbing to the lack of oil and having their economy destroyed (in the same way as happened to Germany after WW1).

Answer 3

The invasion of Japan itself was to commence later in 1945; Operation Olympic.

Although I accept that it was unknown at the time that Japan had plans to surrender, I accept also the US used the weapon without knowing its implications, how could they know?

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The Japanese military also had a plan to extend the war to 1955 or later "until the weak American people tire of the war and force their government to give Japan everything it wants just to let America out of the war" even though the Japanese military knew they could not hope to win.

Note that exactly this strategy (extend a losing war until the American public tires of it) was what worked for the North Vietnamese!

Answer 4

The atomic bombs were thrown to prevent the necessity of the US having to invade Japan itself. It was feared that in that event, the Japanese soldiers would fight to the death, since they had done that already even in the defense of non-Japanese islands far away. And this in turn would cause massive US casualties, a thing which the US Supreme Command wished to avoid at any cost.

Answer 5

The war would have carried on longer thus loosing more US service members but eventually Japan would surrender. They had nothing left after 62 places were bombed and the 2 places which received the atomic bombs.

Answer 6

Many service members would die capturing Japan's main land.