Do you feel that President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb or should he

03-10-2009, 10:01 PM

have gone? through with the invasion of japan?
Explain the social political and economical aspects of dropping of the bomb had on the United States

**Bernie R** · 03-10-2009, 10:02 PM

Truman knew that the Japanese people where told by their military leaders that they should fight to the death when the mainland was invaded. That meant women and children too. Our losses were estimated to be in the millions and a large % of the Japanese people would have been lost. We intended to only drop one bomb , but they would not surrender.

03-10-2009, 10:03 PM

He should've gone with the invasion. There was so much racism in that decision.

03-10-2009, 10:03 PM

The bomb saved lives on both sides. The U.S. casualties were estimated to be a million. Japanese would have been 10 million. The bomb ended the war the Japanese started.

**Oklahoma State Alum** · 03-10-2009, 10:04 PM

The A-bomb was exactly the right decision, because it took two before they surrendered.

An invasion of Japan would have cost untold amounts of American troops' lives and would have prolonged the war by months.

You want to know the aspects of dropping the a-bomb? Here ya go: victory.

03-10-2009, 10:04 PM

No, if we had invaded japan we would have been slaughtered. You people are answering based off opinion, not facts. The fact is the japanease were waiting with triple our man power on the mainland waiting to attack us when we were done island jumping. Thousands of american young men (most were young and drafted) would have died. We would have lost, horribly.

03-10-2009, 10:06 PM

Re-write your question so that it makes SENSE please!

03-10-2009, 10:06 PM

those Japanese shouldn't have bombed pearl harbor. It's good that they got a atomic bomb shoved up their a**es.

03-10-2009, 10:07 PM

.....i guess the second one

03-10-2009, 10:07 PM

It was the best decision. It did exactly as intended, stopped the war. The Japanese were cruel masters. And they were determined to die to the last man, woman and child. They held our men as POW's, starved, tortured and killed them. I know because my uncle was in the Bataan Death March and the stories would chill you to the bone. He was held 3 years. The war had to end, the casualties were climbing rapidly on both sides. And the Japanese refused to surrender.