Was Hiroshima Necessary?

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Was Hiroshima Necessary?

Why the Atomic Bombings Could Have Been Avoided

By Mark Weber

Published: 1997-05-01


On August 6, 1945, the world dramatically entered the atomic age: without either warning or precedent, an American plane dropped a single nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion utterly destroyed more than four square miles of the city center. About about 90,000 people were killed immediately; another 40,000 were injured, many of whom died in protracted agony from radiation sickness. Three days later, a second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki killed some 37,000 people and injured another 43,000. Together the two bombs eventually killed an estimated 200,000 Japanese civilians.


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[Jana]

Unertunately I'd say yes because Japan would not have surrendered and casualities (ground invasion of Japan) would be even much greater. Just my opinion which isn't necessarily correct.

[The Lawspeaker]

It sure beat Operation Downfall.

[Finnish Swede]

Necessary to whom?

1.) Americans? To test their new weapon (against civil people)? Probably yes.

2.) To WWII? Nope, the main islands of Japan were already besieged plus Sovjets also attacked against Japan.
Of course war ended now very quickly but the price was horrible/inhumane.

I really hope that Americans were the first and the last nation (in humans history) which uses that kind of weapon against cities and civil people....

[Ford]

Unertunately I'd say yes because Japan would not have surrendered and casualities (ground invasion of Japan) would be even much greater. Just my opinion which isn't necessarily correct.

While this is true, I think the number of casualties is quite irrelevant in the grander scheme of things. The most important factor to consider is that the bombs taught the world their destructive ability. If they never dropped the bombs, chances are someone would have done it at a later stage with even more (and possibly several) powerful bombs.