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Why did America use the A-bomb to end the conflict in the Pacific? (The…
Why did America use the A-bomb to end the conflict in the Pacific?
The Japanese would fight to the death
An invasion would cost up to 1 million casualties
Atomic weapons would end the war quickly and would save lives by not invading
Defeat for Japan was inevitable in 1945, although Japanese kamikaze ships and submarines continued to sink allied ships. Japan maintained large armies throughout Asia, where soldiers and civilians continued to die.
Allied POW's were at great risk
The US wanted to intimidate the USSR by demonstrating that it had such a powerful weapon
Atomic weapons were used as a first move in the Cold War between US and USSR
A quick ending to the War would prevent the USSR making any advances and become involved in the peace settlement and the occupation of Japan
Entry of the USSR into the war would probably have convinced Japanese leaders to surrender
The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did-
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/
Harry Truman
An invasion would cost up to 1 million casualties
Atomic weapons would end the war quickly and would save lives by not invading
The Japanese started the War in Pearl Harbour
There was vengeance and racism against Japan
Press release by the White House, August 6, 1945. Ayers Papers, Subject File. Army U. S., Press releases, the atomic bomb and atomic energy.
https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/documents/index.php?documentdate=1945-08-06&documentid=59&studycollectionid=abomb&pagenumber=1
The A-bomb was a new weapon that had cost billions of dollars to develop
It was known the A-bomb would cause many deaths, but within in context of the war it was not
The use of conventional weapons in the fire bombing of Tokyo is March 1945 had resulted in the death of 100,000 people.
The US had too few bombs to waste one on a demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIc3Hw6Nm0c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX63b1sJtoc
Was the US justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War? You debate-
https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/was-the-us-justified-in-dropping-atomic-bombs-on-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-during-the-second-world-war-you-debate/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Ib4wTq0jY
