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Aug 6, 2015 · One reason was that the aircraft had to release the bomb from a great height—some 30,000 feet—to escape the shock wave and avoid the radioactive cloud; that limited the target to large...
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To better understand whether atomic action was justified in 1945, we must first consider the likely motivations behind it. The main reason given for America’s decision to take atomic action is that it was a way to conclude the war without suffering further losses (on the American side at least). There are also those who see the attacks as retributi...
The most commonly expressed justification for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings has been that they brought a halt to a war that would have otherwise claimed many more lives. It was believed that America’s only alternative to an atomic assault was an invasion of Japan, which would have almost certainly involved the loss of thousands more US soldie...
Critics of the decision, however, have pointed out that Japan was on the cusp of defeat anyway and that naval blockades and conventional bombing would have forced it to surrender without the need for such a devastating assault. Even Stimson, Truman’s secretary of war, has commented that “Japan had no allies; its navy was almost destroyed; its islan...
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May 9, 1999 · Son refused, certain it would be disastrous to give slow-moving, conservative bankers in Tokyo veto power over investments in America's booming high-tech industry.
Aug 6, 2019 · CNN — On this date 74 years ago, the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing more than 70,000 people instantly. A second bomb followed three days later...
One reason was Japan’s unwillingness to surrender unconditionally. Japan wanted to keep their emperor and conduct their own war trials and did not want to be occupied by U.S. forces. However, the United States wanted unconditional surrender, which thus meant the continuation of the war.
Aug 4, 2015 · But opinions are changing: Americans are less and less supportive of their use of atomic weapons, and the Japanese are more and more opposed. In 1945, a Gallup poll immediately after the bombing found that 85% of Americans approved of using the new atomic weapon on Japanese cities.
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Although in later decades there was considerable debate about whether the bombings were ethically justified, virtually all of America’s political and military leadership, as well as most of those involved in the atomic bomb project, believed at the time that Truman’s decision was correct.
