Why do people agree or disagree to dropping atomic bombs on japan?

Answer 1

Because that's who they were fighting at the time. It would have been silly to drop it in, say, Germany, which had already surrendered, or Italy, which was on the same side by that point in the war, or Canada, which had ALWAYS been on the Allied side.

More seriously, it was dropped to avoid a large-scale invasion of the Japanese islands, which was at the time considered the only other means of reaching the Allied goal of unconditional surrender and would have resulted in FAR greater casualties, most of them Japanese civilians, and most likely also in Japan being divided in the same way that Germany turned into the BRD and the DDR.

Answer 2

Pro: To save millions of Japanese lives, millions of Allied lives including the Reds who were ready to invade Japan. That is what the atomic bombs did accomplish. Some Japanese say it was better to lose some of their own rather than be wiped off the face of the earth by the Reds, Americans, Canadians and Australians.

Con: They killed hundreds of thousands of people with the bombing, radiation fallout and subsequent infections and cancerous diseases derived from the radiation poisoning. Atomic bombs are not militarily proper to use.

Thoughts to consider: The military leaders for the next 6 decades have never lobbed one of their nuclear missiles knowing they would wipe out 1/3 of the earth with one of the modern nuclear missiles. That would not include the amount of deaths afterward. So did they learn from the atomic bombing of World War 2?

The military warriors of the Red Army, US Army, The Marines, The Royal Forces all say they are extremely grateful for the atomic bombs finally motivating Emperor Hirohito to surrender. Had Hirohito not surrendered it is likely a good eighty percent of the Russians, Americans, Brits, Canadians and Australians would have died right alongside the Japanese military and civilians. Many of the warriors have gone up to the developers of the atomic bombs and thanked them. There have been Japanese civilians who were so relieved it was over and mourned the loss of the Japanese who had to die just to get Hirohito to finally end the war. The Japanese civilians did not have any "power of the voice" to motivate their leaders to stop the war.

Answer 3

Many people today argue against the bombings out of ignorance; they are unaware of the gravity of the situation the United States was facing at the time and consequently ridicule the attacks as a war crime or motivated by a desire to intimidate the USSR.

In reality the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki prompted a rapid capitulation on the part of Japan that saved countless millions of lives on all sides.

Answer 4

The atomic bombing of Japan was a horrendous act. It not only killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, but it did so in a horribly painful manner that left even the survivors terribly scarred for life. People argue because there are always different choices you can make instead of killing other people - you just have to look hard enough for them.