Dropping the Bombs
“We would have kept on fighting until all Japanese were killed, but we would not have been defeated”. This quotes, analyzed by theatlantic.com comes from a high ranking Japanese Army officer while being interrogated about what how he thought the war would have ended if the bombs had not been dropped. The Japanese Fanatical leaders were willing to have their entire population fight to the end then surrender their homeland. If Truman had not dropped the bombs on Japan the only differences in the war would be more deaths American and Japanese deaths and that the civilians killed in the atomic blast would have been replaced with continued fire-bombings. The Japanese Fanatical high command made it impossible for the Allies to reach a peaceful solution to the end of the war. The Americans not only sent peace offers to Japan before and after the first Atomic bombing. Both proposals were ignored by the Japanese government. The Japanese were so radicalized that soldiers were forced to commit suicide rather than surrender. Not only did they force their own soldiers to commit suicide, but they also murdered 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, Indochinese and American and British …show more content…
These people neglect the fact that fire-bombings against Japan were just as destructive, if not more destructive then the atomic strikes. A fire-bombing is were explosive are replaced by an incendiary device. The fire-bombings were especially effective against Japan because their cities were made almost purely of wood and paper, giving them the nickname “paper cities”. The fire-bombing of Tokyo killed 100,000 civilians and devastated the city. This is 20,000 people more than the bombing of and all of it’s effects of Nagasaki. Fire-bombing’s not only destroyed the area that they were dropped in, but they spread throughout the cities destroying
“We would have kept on fighting until all Japanese were killed, but we would not have been defeated”. This quotes, analyzed by theatlantic.com comes from a high ranking Japanese Army officer while being interrogated about what how he thought the war would have ended if the bombs had not been dropped. The Japanese Fanatical leaders were willing to have their entire population fight to the end then surrender their homeland. If Truman had not dropped the bombs on Japan the only differences in the war would be more deaths American and Japanese deaths and that the civilians killed in the atomic blast would have been replaced with continued fire-bombings. The Japanese Fanatical high command made it impossible for the Allies to reach a peaceful solution to the end of the war. The Americans not only sent peace offers to Japan before and after the first Atomic bombing. Both proposals were ignored by the Japanese government. The Japanese were so radicalized that soldiers were forced to commit suicide rather than surrender. Not only did they force their own soldiers to commit suicide, but they also murdered 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, Indochinese and American and British …show more content…
These people neglect the fact that fire-bombings against Japan were just as destructive, if not more destructive then the atomic strikes. A fire-bombing is were explosive are replaced by an incendiary device. The fire-bombings were especially effective against Japan because their cities were made almost purely of wood and paper, giving them the nickname “paper cities”. The fire-bombing of Tokyo killed 100,000 civilians and devastated the city. This is 20,000 people more than the bombing of and all of it’s effects of Nagasaki. Fire-bombing’s not only destroyed the area that they were dropped in, but they spread throughout the cities destroying