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Originally Posted by Yuna7780
We were talking about this in US history during this last summer school...
In my opinion, I think that it was dropped for the reason of speeding up the war. If we had not dropped it, the war would be more costly in American lives and American money.
Basically, Truman saved more American lives, but the Japanese were substituted to make Victory in Pacific.
Though, at this point because of island hopping methods, we did trap the Japanese onto their original homeland... but I'm ONLY guessing that maybe the same amount of lives lost in the bombings would happen in "general" warfare if we didn't.
But I don't think a second bomb was really necessary...
I also think the idea of Pearl Harbor kind of comes in mind with the choice of bombing. The Japanese did a surprise attack with bombs and airforce in Hawaii... so the idea of revenge may come back up?
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Japan refused to surrender after Hiroshima. They didn't believe we had any more atomic bombs, and they were unanimously in favor of continuing the war after Hiroshima was destroyed.
So we used our final bomb to destroy Nagasaki, but lied and told them we had many more, and would destroy city after city until they surrendered. Even then, it was an even 50/50 split, with half the Japanese leadership wanting to keep fighting, and the Emperor broke the tie in favor of surrender.