Why did the Americans drop atomic bomb in Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
The American generals were making plans to invade Japan. While these plans were being made the Bomb was completed. The generals determined that the allies would lose approximately 1,000,000 men in the invasion. It was also thought that at least that many Japanese civilians would be killed as well as at least 1,000,000 Japanese soldiers. So President Truman along with his Chiefs of Staff decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima in the hopes that this would cause the Japanese to surrender. It did not so they decided to drop the second bomb about a week later and this did cause the surrender to occur there by saving many more lives than would have been lost on an invasion.
The US did not drop the atomic bombs to “end the war” – that is utter bollocks. Japan was essentially defeated by June 1945, and the war was essentially over by July 1945. – US military commanders such as Eisenhower, MacArthur, Leahy and Nimitz told President Truman that the Soviet intervention and the Allied naval blockade was enough to get a Japanese surrender and that the atomic bombs were unnecessary. These men also refused to support a decision that waged war on women and children. – The US Strategic Bombing Survey in July 1945 concluded that Japan would surrender “in all probability” before 1 November 1945 and “certainly” before 31 December 1945 – even without the use of the atomic bombs, even without a Soviet intervention and even if a US invasion was never planned or contemplated. President Truman knew that the atomic bombs were not needed to end the war, but he used the atomic bombs because: A. For scientific research and to justify the $2 billion spent on the project (1) The
Because they would not surrender, after killing thousands of innocent americans in Pearl Harbor and a lot more across the pacific over the next four years. Even after their own country was destroyed, they still would not surrender. That is all they had to do. They started it, and they were unwilling to finish it. Sad. It could have been avoided.
