Why America used nuclear bombs on Japan ?
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It was the quickest way.
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The USA - the USA provided 100% of Japan's self defense - Japan had to spend NOTHING on its own military for 50 years (and the US still provides most of it to this day), whereas the USA spends billions a year. This 'free money' gave Japan tons and tons of capital to first rebuild, and then to monopolize - the USA gave Japan a free meal ticket to rebuild after the war.
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interesting distortions and outright lies about history here...\nPearl harbour attack came first. The japanese began to loose from about 1 year into the war. The americans won, (no, the americans are not looosing when we reduce the size of an attacking force from occuping many nations back to its original size) despite american victories, the japanese refused to surrender prefering death to surrender, so the usa used nukes on two cities, and saving many american and japanese lives in the process\nLikewise 9/11 and thousands of other terrorist incidents occured before afghanistan or iraq. There are thousands of muslim terrorist bombings etc in lands that have nothing to do with the usa or even the west thus nothing to do with actions in iraq or afghanistan.. (india, thialand, sudan just for example)\nJapan was a facist, fanatical society (sounds like some muslim countries) and was given democracy... iraq and afghanistan were given democracy as well, and they will be better off for it..
774357
A very cowardly act for our president to commit and it was genocide i believe. At least those brave japanese fighters had honor and never targeted cities with innocent woman and children in it like we did.they caught us with our pants down in Pearl Harbor and it was a military target not a whole F****** city.We took the easy way out and i think it was very cowardly and wrong to ever drop a bomb not even targeting military targets but whole cities.Im ashamed of what we did to Japan in the past.
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To sacrifice 100,000+ Japanese lives for possibly millions of Japanese, European and American lives.  The war would have continued if it were not for "the bomb" - and once on mainland Japan, it would have been disastrous.  The Japanese actually did not surrender until after we bombed another city, Nagasaki, several days later.  This is a testament to their will and determination at that time.\n\nThe other important thing to remember is that Germany was also developing a nuclear device and was ahead of us with delivery systems (rockets, missiles, etc.), so it was imperative that we not only develop the bomb(s), but demonstrate that we had them and their effectiveness, as horrible as that sounds.\n\nNuclear weapsons are a terrible thing, cost countries billions of dollars to develop, and if used again, will most likely damage the planet irreparably.
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WWII and Hirosima and Nagaski bombing.\nWWII established US's superiority in the world, and A-bomb started the cold war, which shaped US policy for 50 years and caused the technological progress that we are enjoying today.
870591
It was the US entry in the race to develop the atomic bomb. If we hadn't done it, the Germans or the Japanese would have because they were only a bit behind us in the race. It was inevitable that it would be developed one way or another.
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In a 2-megaton explosion over a fairly large city, buildings would be vaporized, people reduced to atoms and shadows, outlying structures blown down like matchsticks and raging fires ignited. And if the bomb were exploded on the ground, an enormous crater, like those that can be seen through a telescope on the surface of the Moon, would be all that remained where midtown once had been. \n\nThere are now more than 50,000 nuclear weapons, more than 13,000 megatons of yield, deployed in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union -- enough to obliterate a million Hiroshimas. \n\nBut there are fewer than 3000 cities on the Earth with populations of 100,000 or more. You cannot find anything like a million Hiroshimas to obliterate. Prime military and industrial targets that are far from cities are comparatively rare. Thus, there are vastly more nuclear weapons than are needed for any plausible deterrence of a potential adversary.
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Holy cow, some really horrible answers so far........\n\nThe US had imposed economic sanctions on Japan because of their invasion and occupation of Manchuria, and their invasion and occupation of most of Western China.  We wanted them to withdraw from China, and imposed increasingly stringent sanctions that were hurting the Japanese economy, which not only prevented them from supporting their military activities but also hurt civilian production and consumption.\n\nThe Japanese decided that the best way to get the resources they needed (primarily tin, rubber, oil and other natural resources)  was to invaded the resource rich Dutch East Indies.  They also felt they needed to invade US possessions in the Phillipines and the Central Pacific in order to provide an outlying perimeter to protect their conquests.  The Japanese were well aware that such actions would cause the US, Enland, and the Dutch to declare war on them.  Since the English and Dutch were heavily involved in the war in Europe against Germany and Italy, the only real threat the Japanese faced was the US, primarily the US Pacific Fleet which was based at Pearl Harbor.  \n\nTherefor the Japanese devised a plan whereby they would launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, crippling the US Pacific Fleet to the point where it couldn't interfere with their plans for quite some time.  By the time it could, the Japanese would have built up their outlying perimeter making it extremely difficult for any US fleet to interfere.  They also hoped that the attack would so horrify the US civilian population that the US government would sign a peace treaty and accept the status qou.  Admiral Yamamoto and other high level militarly leaders warned that if the US decided to go to war, it was a war that Japan could never win because of the industrial and economic might of the US.\n\nSo, the attack was in response to US sanctions, sanctions which crippled the ability of the Japanese to conduct their war in China.  Since they were unwilling to give up their conquests there, and any further invasion would bring about war against the US, they decided on launching a surprise attack.\n\nHerbmueller99 gave a very short, essentially correct answer. Bobmarley and karatekaty are pretty much dead wrong, and everybody else besides nywrek are almost dead wrong. Nywrek is generally correct, although it was no secret that Germany, Japan, and Italy had signed the Tripartite Pact, and the entire USN wasn't based at Pearl Harbor, just a majority of the Pacific Fleet.\n\nHigh school and college history teachers must be doing a lousy job nowadays, or people simply don't read anymore.
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1945 Harry Truman had the Atomic Bomb dropped on Japan.You don`t need any frequency with that action,that was up there with the holocaust,but the world seems to separate the two acts of carnage.
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1) the US wanted to get the Japanese back for the bombing of Pearl Harbor\n\n2) the US wanted to intimidate the Soviet Union \n(because there were tensions between the US and the former Soviet Union and the US wanted to show the Soviet Union that it had a new, deadly weapon which the Soviet Union didn't have)\n\n3) Truman justified the dropping of the bomb by stating Japan would not surrender without an invasion that'd cause enormous loss of both American and Japanese lives. At least, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki...no American lives were lost (*rolls eyes*)\n\n\nThe bombing of Hiroshima came first (August 6, 1945), the US dropped the bomb in hopes Japan surrenders.\nSince Japan didn't surrender, 3 days later (August 9, 1945) the US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. \nJapan got the point, surrendered, and World War 2 was over.
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USA used nukes in Japan cities and chemical weapons in Vietnam, also US using a lot of "depleted uranium" and "Phosphoric" bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq, JUST FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES, INCLUDING HUMAN-RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY ISSUES, etc...!!!!
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lol...i think they will do that.... call every body else as "Terrorist"\n\notherwise they would have destroyed their nuke first.....they just want to keep their nukes and restrained others not to keep them..by saying....."deadliest weapon ...we are still sad after using on Japan twice........ (bull*s*hit)........Just to keep hold on others..
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well 2 bombs have already been dropped on Japan, but i assume you mean why where the sites chosen. Well the USA wanted to force Japan out of the war so sites that were of economic importantce to Japan was chooosen
653074
The Ultimate War... However, one cannot assume that just because a country has a nuclear warhead they will use it... They haven't yet. America was the developer of the nuclear bomb, and we are also the only ones to have used it in a war (i.e. WWII). And we used it twice... Cuba is screaming at us, "Listen to me! We have nukes!" But they won't do shit with them. Russia, the Cold War, this Long War... All just government propaganda to get you to go along with gas prices and avian bird flu. Pride is not about nationality, it's about being a human being and being alive, for that matter... Just because your country says that you have a nuclear bomb doesn't mean they're going to use it... Just save it for a rainy day, I suppose. Just so that when everybody is dropping the bomb, that one little country (we'll call it Kerplakistan) can join in and not feel left out. If every country had a nuclear weapon, though, America would be bombed first, and we have more nukes than there are countries in the world! In conclusion, it may bring world peace, world destruction, or a wholly new world order.
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Does Hiroshima and Nagasaki mean anything to you? Those are the Japanese cities that were obliterated by the a-bombs just as WWII was rapidly drawing to a close. It just shows this country and many others that bombing Iran and North Korea with nuclear weapons are not the answer in dealing with them. A diplomatic solution is the only way to go. GWB should take this diplomacy lesson from Jimmy Carter.
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The second wworld war would have ended without the use of atomic bomb. but the war offered an opportunity for the U.S to test the bomb which it has produced. The use of that bomb made the Japanese to surrender unilaterally