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What was the justification for the US bombing of the cities of Hirosima and Nagasaki?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't agree. The justification was that far too many lives on either side were being lost in in fierce last-man-stand fighting in the South Pacific. Truman dropped the bombs in order to bring the maniacal Japanese leaders to their senses and make them realise that they were in a no win situation and further slaughter should be prevented.
However it is hard to justify dropping bombs of that magnitude on such densely populated areas. It shows the idiotic resolve of the Japanese rulers that the Americans had to drop 2 bombs though.
The American war planner were budgeting a million casualties for the invasion of Japan.
The rather overwhelming evidence for the second bomb justification is whether the japanese thought about surrender after the first.....
I think no - but the q is verifiable.
I think the J Cabinet meeting when the emperor said, it is time to think the unthinkable was afcter the second bomb......
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This however, was clearly not the real REASON for the bombings, though it may well have been portrayed as the justification. The US needed to find out exactly what effects the bomb would have in proper use, i.e. on a population. which they got. i'm not saying the u.s. are any more dreadful than other countries when at war, far from it. but i suppose it's part of the human condition, ain't it. from the first use of clubs and spears onwards, we take advantage of whatever keeps us at an advantage. they were presented with a great opportunity to be almost justified in doing some real-life a-bomb testing.
"praise the lord and pass the ammunition" indeed...
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Just chiming in with the American perspective - I'm not a military expert or anything, but I believe this was the first weapon where we crossed the line between "can we" and "should we". Military strategy to this point was about designing a better weapon, and then using it. Once we figured out how to make the bomb, the next step was dropping it on somebody -- there was no "ethical review" step in between. Richard Feynman, one of the physicists who helped create the bomb, described the idea as being "get the bomb ready as fast as possible so we can end the war." Build a weapon, then use it; the bigger the better.
It wasn't until after we finished that we looked at what we had done and thought, "Perhaps there is such a thing as overkill after all."