If you were President when Truman was would you have dropped the bomb on Hiroshima?
107422
Japan was duly warned by Pres. Truman, but the Emporer refused to back down.  I would say his callous disregard for diplomacy called for a squashing attempt to prove that an end was necessary.  However, it is sad that the technology used was so harmful to so many, and placed such a great limit on the longevity of the entire planet.
947857
He could have said, "you know, one of the hardest parts of my job is all the lying I do, all the bold-faced untruthery I must push on the American people.  Luckily, I have a forth estate of grovelling servants, like you, Katie, to help me in my unprecedented destruction of this once proud nation.  Thanks so much"\n\nThat's what he should have said.
172598
I WOULD GUESS TRUMAN.  I DON'T KNOW WHAT DATE.
1079452
You have to ask if it was the right decision ? The bombing potentially saved millions of lives on both sides. The Japanese were prepared to fight to the last man and those two bombs convinced the Emperor to surrender.
598403
A decision was made to end the war. It had been going on since Dec. 7, 1941. Remember? Maybe you don't know. The Japanese launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor..dropping the atomic bomb saved coutless thousands of American and Allied lives. The war in the Pacific could gone on and on. When did Chuck Norris say that? \nWhy don't you go to a library and look up the history of WWII?\nYes, BOOKS.\nPayback is hell. Ask the 1,300 navy men entombed in the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
322467
No. The surrender was signed only after two atomic bombs had been dropped, Hiroshima and Nagasaki ?
854596
Yes 9/11 would have happened no matter who was president. The response would have been different. Is Algore was in charge (shudder) More of us would have lost our heads by now, we would not have gone into the Middle East, and prayer rugs would be the big seller at Wal-Mart!
326736
u wouldnt happen to go to eisenhower?\nhttp://members.cox.net/ccjjr59/
143423
In the case of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on Japan, there was a World War going on with Japan using military power to take over countries all over the world.  The United States was a non-participant in these events until it was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor, thereby declaring war on the United States and opening itself up to attack by United States forces.\n\nJapan had declared that there would be no surrender and it had begun arming all of its civilians to resist invasion.  The estimated death toll from a direct assault on the main island of Japan was in the millions based on extrapolation of the death toll from the capture of Okinawa.\n\nAs for North Korea, there has yet to be a declared war between North Korea and the United States and while there are scattered conflicts occurring throughout the world, there is definately not a war of the scale of World War II currently happening.\n\nThe decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan was calculated to end one conflict, the one with Japan.  There was never any belief that these events would bring an end to all the war in the world. History has shown that there will always be another power to step in and fill the void when another power is removed or collapses. If Korea did follow your suggestion to attack the United States with nuclear weapons and was successful in toppling the United States, that would merely create a vaccuum for the next power to step into.\n\nIf your plan follows the same path as post World War II, that would merely place North Korea in the position of being the world's superpower and having them "bully" their way around the world, eventually leading to someone from another nation, perhaps a South American country, to post a similar question, this time being "North Koreans say, NK nuked US to end the war. Is it acceptable, Argentina nuke NK to end the war in the world?"
1142511
I would be devastated at the loss. My life would never be the same. I would be very proud of him as I consider all those who join the forces as heroes. I would curse the day George W was born for getting us into an unnecessary war with no exit plan,
148993
The answers to all of that can be found here -\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
525662
No. At the moment, Japan is the underdog, with Koizumi panting and yapping at Bush's ankles!! \n\nIf it had been Japan that dropped the bombs, on America, it would be Bush panting and yapping at Koizumi's ankles!!\n\nBut seriously, of COURSE things would be different - you know that a man is only a 'war criminal' if he's on the losing side, so a few Americans might have been convicted, but no Japanese.\n\nAs for whether the Japanese would have been any more (or less) sadistic, cruel & manipulative to the Americans than the Americans have been to Japan - we'll NEVER know!
500842
Hiroshima was the first Japanease city that was hit with an Atomic Bomb which ultimately led to the end of the War of course after we hit Nagasaki.  Even though those attacks are said to be brutal many agree that it saved millions of lives if we would have had to do a total land invasion of Japan.
569478
it was 2 atomic bombs that were used to change the attitudes of the japanese government.a hydrogen bomb is much more powerful and back then they had no way of transporting that kind of power.the germans had a scientist who did come up with the idea and he came to america to share his knowledge of the atomic bomb,Albert Einstein.and if atomic were used today in a war,it would be as effective today as it was back then.
632788
There was rumor that there was no atomic bomb during the WW2.The US tried to paradrop Chuck Norris at Hiroshima but the cables snagged and Chuck Norris fell off.The impact of Chuck Norris to the ground was able to split the atom and there was a huge explosion,Everyone was killed exept Chuck Norris.A few hours later,the impact travelled via undeground going to Nagazaki,the same thing happened.
97016
I think it was not necessary, but hard for me to say that when U.S. Marines have over 45,000 causalties on Iwa Jima and Okinawa ALONE!  That is 20 times the amount of men and women lost in Iraq, and that is just 4-5 months of battle!\n\nThere were several reasons NOT to drop the bomb.  But President Truman did not want to have 100,000 to 1,000,000 causulaties taking the home islands of Japan, and he felt the need to establish American dominance in the Pacific, so that it did not go to the Russians, like Europe had already started to.\n\nThe Japanese may have surrendered to the USA and Allies without it, but they wanted to put conditions on the surrender.  We demanded u=nconditional surrender and nothing less.  This was a big reason for forcing them to surrender our way. \n\nMany scientists that worked on the Manhattan Project, including Openheimer and Einstein, wanted to detonate the Bomb on an unihabitied island to show Japan what it would do, and then ask them to surrender then.  \n\nThe Japanese military committed more warcrimes and atrocities than the Nazis.  The killed almost as many people, and save the holocaust, which I do not want to diminish in ANY WAY, Japan was involved in rape of Nanking, the Baatan Death March, and the murder and rape of MILLIONS of civilians and thousands of POWs.  One of Doolittles Raiders that was shot down over Tokyo(reference movie Pearl Harbor), was murdered in front of the public by a Japanese General and the General ATE HIS LIVER in front of the crowd!!!  He was hung after the war, but how bad to you have to be to EAT your enemy!??!\n\nMercy may not have been high in the mind of our nation's and allied nation's leaders when it came time to (paraphrase the Gap Band) "Drop the Bomb".
638564
Yes, they had used it but only once in world war two. They dropped the bomb in 1945.