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It wasn't necessary, and having visited the A-Bomb Museum in Hiroshima myself, it can certainly be
said that the damage can never be undone. |
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Howard Stark needed an ego boost. |
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I'm not sure where I stand on this, but I'm sure that anybody now would have preferred a more
diplomatic solution rather than one which involves killing so many people. However, considering that
either the Germans or the Japanese were into Nukes too, I guess there was some reason into nuking
Japan. |
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The purpose of the bomb was to end it quickly. You are right that they will eventually end. But the
american government did not want to see anymore casualties as some of the Japanese troops were
nationalistic and probably wanted to continue fighting the war. But the atomic bomb cost a lot of
money. |
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"Japan was already defeated and dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary."
Those are not the words of a latter-day revisionist historian nor an anti-American zealot. They are
the words of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and future
president of the United States.
Eisenhower knew, as did the entire senior U.S. Officer corps, that by mid 1945 Japan was
defenseless. After the Japanese fleet was destroyed at Leyte Gulf in October 1944, the United States
was able to carry out uncontested bombing of Japan's cities, including the hellish firebombings of
Tokyo and Osaka.
This is what Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, meant when he
observed, "The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the
Japanese had lost control of their own air."
Also, without a navy, the resource-poor Japanese had lost the ability to import the food, oil, and
industrial supplies needed to carry on a World War.
As a result of their futility, Japan had approached the Russians, seeking their help in brokering a
peace. The United States had long before broken the Japanese codes and knew that the Japanese had
for months been trying to find a way to surrender.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S.
Fleet, reflected this when he wrote, "The Japanese had, in fact, already plead for peace. The atomic
bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan." |
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I say it was because it showed that people could survive and rebuild after a nuclear blast, an also
showed the efficiency of nuclear weapons to the rest of the world. |
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23 Jun 2012 15:30
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