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In 1945, the US Army Air Force dropped nuclear wepons on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Now, it is beyond question that the use of the nuclear weapons saved lives in the long run: in the Allied plans for the invasion of Japan, it was estimated that at least one million Allied soldiers and seven million Japanese would have died: the Japanese were prepared for national suicide; they had soldiers going to schools on every island in Japan, showing 10-year-old schoolgirls how to kill Americans with bamboo spears. The war would only have ended with the virtual extermination of the Japanese people.
But the question is still asked: was it necessary?
Was it necessary to bomb inhabited cities? Many people have said that if a nuclear bomb was exploded on an uninhabited island, the demonstration of American power would have been sufficient to force a Japanese surrender.
Except it wouldn't have been.
We know this, because we had to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hiroshima AND Nagasaki.
We dropped a nuclear bomb on an inhabited city; we completely destroyed a city of over 250,000 people, and IT WASN'T ENOUGH!
WE HAD TO DO IT AGAIN!
If completely destroying an entire city wasn't enough to make the Japanese surrender, then dropping the bomb on an uninhabited island sure as hell wouldn't have been enough.
Now, it is beyond question that the use of the nuclear weapons saved lives in the long run: in the Allied plans for the invasion of Japan, it was estimated that at least one million Allied soldiers and seven million Japanese would have died: the Japanese were prepared for national suicide; they had soldiers going to schools on every island in Japan, showing 10-year-old schoolgirls how to kill Americans with bamboo spears. The war would only have ended with the virtual extermination of the Japanese people.
But the question is still asked: was it necessary?
Was it necessary to bomb inhabited cities? Many people have said that if a nuclear bomb was exploded on an uninhabited island, the demonstration of American power would have been sufficient to force a Japanese surrender.
Except it wouldn't have been.
We know this, because we had to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hiroshima AND Nagasaki.
We dropped a nuclear bomb on an inhabited city; we completely destroyed a city of over 250,000 people, and IT WASN'T ENOUGH!
WE HAD TO DO IT AGAIN!
If completely destroying an entire city wasn't enough to make the Japanese surrender, then dropping the bomb on an uninhabited island sure as hell wouldn't have been enough.
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I don't like it when people are killed; it makes me sad. But I am very glad that President Truman saw what he had to do to end the war, and did it.
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The bombs saved the future generations of Asia. Anyway, even if the bomb was detonated on an empty island, the japs won't surrender due to their so-called 'god-emperor' which they worship. And the 'god-emperor' probably will tell his nation to stand their ground.
The point is, with the quick swift death of 400 thousand or more which most of them supported a regime of murder and barbarism, millions more was saved in South East Asia and beyond. It was thanks to the bombs that I live under freedom not the injustice that they brought to my country before.
The point is, with the quick swift death of 400 thousand or more which most of them supported a regime of murder and barbarism, millions more was saved in South East Asia and beyond. It was thanks to the bombs that I live under freedom not the injustice that they brought to my country before.