Question

interesting debate topic.. just wanted to know people's thoughts

Were the atomic bombings on nagasaki and hiroshoma necessary? Or could they have been avoided

Answer 1

Yayyy! This is my kinda debate lol! I'm in!

Answer 2

History books say that it was necessary, saving millions of both civilian and soldier's lives on both sides

Answer 3

I think it was totally necessary!

Answer 4

but the Japanese Emperor had given hints on surrendering, they had even had secret messages written, contemplating their surrender

Answer 5

they had only one request, for the US to not remove their emperor

Answer 6

But he never followed though. He kept it private...never telling anyone...not even his closest advisors.

Answer 7

you could argue that it was necessary, but even the land invasion wasn't necessary, the European war had been long won, and the Japanese were surrounded with no more allies

Answer 8

their secret messages were sent through, almost a month before germany surrendered

Answer 9

It was necessary. President Truman said if we have a weapon lets use it to stop the war without rethinking. Although, it would end up in a huge money usage for just fighting with non-atomic weapons.

Answer 10

the defeat was imminent

Answer 11

the Japanese ambassadors had failed to make peace with the soviet union, the only country that they were neutral with

Answer 12

yup

Answer 13

Yes. The war was won almost from the start!

Answer 14

They were making countries HATE them.......just by losing their trust...

Answer 15

The most important factor of Japan's surrender was Soviet Union entering war against them a couple days after hiroshoma, the atomic bombings were not the main reason

Answer 16

You are correct! :D

Answer 17

...........pups you and I are debating on the same side here.....lol

Answer 18

I don't care who entered the war or what. It is the responsibility of a leader to minimize casualties among his own people and maximize damage to the enemy.
Harry Truman did the right thing.

Answer 19

the war could have been ended on peaceful terms once the soviet union entered the war, because the US were promising things for the emperor, the atomic bombings then further impacted things because it led to the cold war

Answer 20

@wwhitlock You are 100% correct!

Answer 21

Manchuria had already been invaded

Answer 22

Japanese codes had been deciphered, the Japanese were tired of the war and wanted to get out of it by securing negotiating efforts with the soviet union, but failed

Answer 23

this shows that they were ready to surrender, the red army entering it would have been the last straw

Answer 24

even most top military officials and advisor during that time had said it was not necessary

Answer 25

The Cold War, which really was WWIII, started when the Soviets rolled into Germany. They had not intention of giving up any of the territories they occupied during WWII.
If they had a chance at getting some of Japan your sushi chef at the local would be speaking Russian

Answer 26

If they were ready to surrender....why not do so when they had the chance? Why put more troops into action? Why not hold them back?

Answer 27

Can someone plz check my answer below?

Answer 28

here are numerous amounts of direct quotes from uncovered diaries/notebooks/whatever http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-real-reason-america-used-nuclear-weapons-against-japan-it-was-not-to-end-the-war-or-save-lives/5308192

Answer 29

I think I've told you about my friend Bob, puppies. He celebrated his 20th birthday on Iwo Jima. The fighting was more fierce than anywhere. There is no way they give up without a KO punch

Answer 30

^^^^^^^

Answer 31

that was fierce, but they had already overtaken all the main islands needed after, japan wanted to keep them off of the mainland

Answer 32

those were turning points, midway as well

Answer 33

both are equally strong arguments, although with more and more evidence and researching on this, it is looking more like the bombings were indeed not necessary, at least 2 were not needed

Answer 34

The second was needed because no response from the first one. We didn't realize how bad communication was. Tokyo didn't really understand what had happened and couldn't really respond.
But, given the information that Truman had, he made the best call.
It's always easy to go back and look at the history and second guess. We could have negotiated a peace with Japan without the bombs, perhaps.
But at what cost and what kind of peace would it be?
We could have fought the equivalent of the Korean War in Japan. or who knows how it would have mutated.
I like you're evidence. I just am not persuaded, yet.

Answer 35

The thing about history is that, they did it, and it worked, but nobody looks for better alternatives, they just say that look, we dropped it, they surrendered, we didn't lose any more people, but we killed a bunch of those people

Answer 36

your argument was not well thought out @heyyyyitsholly but i still respect it :P

Answer 37

there are many things that history books are either teaching wrong, or are hiding

Answer 38

Lol. I was just stating the facts...that I know of lol!
I knew I was not going to be staying for long so I did not put up a big "fight" lol

Answer 39

no worries :)

Answer 40

Your going to make a great History teacher puppies

Answer 41

Do you believe there were no better alternatives to it? @wwhitlock I agree that truman was in a tough situation and made the situation he thought was best, but looking back, better situations could have been created

Answer 42

lol i dont wanna be a teacher xD

Answer 43

But otherwise...I had fun! Harry, tag me in any other history or religious debates you have! But pups you should think about it....

Answer 44

I have been thinking about it xD

Answer 45

You would be great!

Answer 46

Well you can teach after you get rich. maybe

Answer 47

yeah maybe :P

Answer 48

there were a couple other topics that I wanted opinions on

Answer 49

@ganeshie8 this one