Atomic Bombs

Japan was prepared to fight to the last man, woman and child. Only something utterly dramatic would have detered them. The last battle, Okinawa (sp) resulted in the highest casualties to the US Navy in all battles up to that time. The USN had 30 ships sunk! It had 300 ships put out of commission for 30 days or more at that battle. This was out of about 1400 ships in the invasion force. Worse, at the end of October 1945 one of the worst typhoons hit Japan and the surrounding areas. It did extensive damage to our facilities that had prepared fot the invasion of Japan on Okinawa. Had be been prepared for the invasions, we would have suffered a major defeat and losses from this storm. The invasion of the 1st island of Japan scheduled for the 1st of November would have had to have been postponed. The "devine wind" would have saved them again from invasion and only emboldened them to fight on. On the night of March 9-10 1945, 485 B29's burned out 16 square miles of Tokyo and killed about 100,000 people. There is a book called "Flames over Tokyo" that describes the situation on the ground for the inhabitants of Tokyo... They did the math: 485 to destroy Tokyo, 1 each to destroy Hiroshima amd Nagaski. The Japanese knew that we had about 2,000 B29s in the Marianas.
It forced the Japanese to surrender without the invasion of the mainland

Two atomic bombs were dropped ; one upon the city of Hiroshima and the other upon Nagasaki .

Historians have long speculated on the course of WWII if the US hadn't dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. At one end of the spectrum is the view that the Japanese war machine was near its breaking point and that its leaders would have surrendered anyway, perhaps only a few months after they actually capitulated. On the other hand, the US War Department developed plans for a worst-case scenario in which the Imperial government, due to its long-held code of honor, chose to fight to the death. Half a million or more Allied troops would have been deployed in a land invasion. They would have met resistance potentially stronger than that put up by the Nazis, with the war possibly having lasted until 1948-1950. In either case the West's focus would have been directed away from European reconstruction for a longer time which likely would have allowed Soviet forces to occupy more territory. In addition, without having seen the horror of atomic destruction there would have been a temptation to use those weapons in some later conflict - after more-powerful bombs had been developed.

It's also been speculated that a Japanese surrender could have been achieved with far fewer civilian casualties if the bombs had been dropped on purely military targets, but again no one can know for sure.

After America dropped Little Boy, the hydrogen bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan refused to surrender, despite the entire city being reduced to rubble. As a result, America created Fat Man, a phosphorus bomb, and dropped it on Nagasaki. This immediately resulted in an even bigger disaster and the Japanese immediately surrendered.

So in short, the bombings caused major destruction of the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and Japan surrendered after the second explosion.

Harry S. Truman

Overall, the answer is no. This is because in total, it estimate that 175,000 lives were lost. The Atomic Bombs would of saved about 45,000 lives but it would cost 220,000 lives. However, this argument with the use of Atomic Bombs was necessary and a effective way to end World War 2 in the pacific and overall.

Nagasaki

Harry Truman's justification was that he did it to save the lives of our American soldiers and to end the War between us and the Japanese. He decided to bomb Nagasaki and Hiroshima so that the Japanese would give up. He bombed two giant cities with people who had nothing to do with the war and who were just trying to live instead of hitting the Japanese hard where it hurts, their military. The atomic bomb killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese people instead of attacking their military with people who were ready to die. Japanese attacked our military not our cities with millions of innocent people. Harry Truman had no justification for that.

The first atomic weapon test took place 35 miles southeast of Socorro,NM. [July 2008 population: 8,989], on the White Sands Proving Ground, on July 16, 1945. The test was called "Trinity", and the weapons code name was "The Gadget".

Yes, it was. It was the most powerful and devastating weapon imaginable at the time it was used. It was known that not only the explosion itself but also the resulting radiation would be very destructive. Debates about the use of these weapons will continue for many generations. Whatever one's position, it can be argued that those bombs did hasten the end of the war.

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Hiroshima was bombed by B-29 'Enola Gay' and Nagasaki was bombed by B-29 'Bock's Car'. They were not carrier-borne (you're thinking of the Tokyo fire-bombing from carrier-borne B-24s). The atomic bomb sorties were flown from the island of Tinian. Over 3

In total between 150,000 and 246,000 people were sus[ected to be killed during the 2 atomic bombings in World War 2. 90,000-166,000 were suspected to be killed in Hiroshima and 60,000-80,000 suspected to be killed in Nagasaki.

There were 2 atomic bombs, which were dropped onto Japan in 1945. They were called 'Fat Man' and 'little boy'.

The three major reasons for the US to bomb Japan during WW 2 are: 1) The Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor PRIOR to a declaration of war. 2) The Bataan Death March. 3) Japanese treatment of civilian internees & women from Korea. Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com

That depends on who you ask. If you ask a Marine or soldier in the Pacific in 1945, they would probably agree that it was justified. The casualty projections for the invasion were running at an expected 2,000.000 killed and wounded. Don't forget most Americans also blamed Japan for getting the US into the war by attacking Pearl Harbor. The Japanese obviously didn't feel that the unleashing of the bomb on civilians was justified.

They were called Little Boy and Fat man. (see related question link below)

The US dropped the atomic bombs on Japan to shock Japan's government into ending the war without an invasion. While an invasion would cost the lives of nearly one million US soldiers, half a million British soldiers, every Allied POW in Japan, and at the very least a majority of the Japanese people living in Japan, dropping the bombs caused over 250,000 casualties. It was decided that dropping the bombs would ultimately cause less casualties than any other method of ending the war.

it would prevent high casualties that would be caused by an invasion of mainland Japan.

ethical concerns

The Fat Man atomic bomb was dropped by the B-29 bomber called Bockscar piloted by Major Charles Sweeney of the 393rd Heavy Bomber Squad. He did not personally let the bomb out the bomb bay door, merely the piloted the plane. The bombardier's name was withheld.

The british tested their atomic bombs in Australia.

I believe it was Los Alamos

Los Alamos was a town, it still is, no city developed the atomic bomb, it was a group of scientists that developed it.

Both have critical mass and both use chain reactions