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The people in the Manhattan Project invented the Nuclear bombs, the americans. They were droped on Japan because they had no other choice, the Japanease were willing to fight till the last man.

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EDIT: 25/07/2010

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What is posted here is slightly wrong as they did contemplate invading Japan but it was decided there would be too many deaths, which is a bit ironic really as there was many more deaths due to the bombings, even to this day people are still dying from the effects of the nuclear weapons dropped on Nagaski & Hiroshima.

Also The Japs were willing to fight to their last man but, there is also the argument that they were ready to give up the war before the atom bomb was dropped.

This page (link below) gives both sides of the debate.

These are a few quotations to show that even American commanders disagreed with the bombings.

"The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan." - Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet

"The use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons." - Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to President Truman

"I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives." - Supreme Allied Commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower

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