Was the use of the Atomiic bomb necessary in WWII?
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I think it was not necessary, but hard for me to say that when U.S. Marines have over 45,000 causalties on Iwa Jima and Okinawa ALONE!  That is 20 times the amount of men and women lost in Iraq, and that is just 4-5 months of battle!\n\nThere were several reasons NOT to drop the bomb.  But President Truman did not want to have 100,000 to 1,000,000 causulaties taking the home islands of Japan, and he felt the need to establish American dominance in the Pacific, so that it did not go to the Russians, like Europe had already started to.\n\nThe Japanese may have surrendered to the USA and Allies without it, but they wanted to put conditions on the surrender.  We demanded u=nconditional surrender and nothing less.  This was a big reason for forcing them to surrender our way. \n\nMany scientists that worked on the Manhattan Project, including Openheimer and Einstein, wanted to detonate the Bomb on an unihabitied island to show Japan what it would do, and then ask them to surrender then.  \n\nThe Japanese military committed more warcrimes and atrocities than the Nazis.  The killed almost as many people, and save the holocaust, which I do not want to diminish in ANY WAY, Japan was involved in rape of Nanking, the Baatan Death March, and the murder and rape of MILLIONS of civilians and thousands of POWs.  One of Doolittles Raiders that was shot down over Tokyo(reference movie Pearl Harbor), was murdered in front of the public by a Japanese General and the General ATE HIS LIVER in front of the crowd!!!  He was hung after the war, but how bad to you have to be to EAT your enemy!??!\n\nMercy may not have been high in the mind of our nation's and allied nation's leaders when it came time to (paraphrase the Gap Band) "Drop the Bomb".
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An atomic bomb is composed of some heavy-duty explosives, U-235 or P-239, and a neutron source.\n\nThe neutron source is in the center, surrounded by the Uranium or Plutonium, and then the explosives. Upon detonation, the explosives explode simultaneously, crushing the nuclear material in on the neutron source. This causes the material to achieve critical mass and a massive chain reaction takes place. Very massive.
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There is no difference...some people say nuke because that was the term used in the 1960's...there is a difference between atom bombs and hydrogen bombs...atom bombs use uranium as the "fuel" (catalyst), it being a very "heavy" atom (atomical weight) while the hydrogen bomb as the name implies uses hydrogen as its catalyst which is very light.
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No, a hydrogen bomb implies a fusion bomb. Even though fission is use to ignite the hydrogen, it is still a fusion bomb.
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm
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There are two basic types of atomic bomb. The gun type was used over Hiroshima and used U-235. The compression type is more common now and was used over Nagasaki and used Pu-239.
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Study your history, not the media...  One factor which helped make the decision to use the Atomic (not nuclear) bomb was the Invasion of Okinawa in April 1945.  Okinawa was the first island in the chain of islands leading to the mainland Japan.  12,000 US troops were killed and 36,000 US troops were wounded.  Using this model it was estimated that an invasion of the mainland would have cost 1 million US casualties...
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as a matter of fact, the US indeed have arsenals for nuclear bombs. The US Gov't has to maintain nuclear bombs, simply because, it wanted to stay as the world's most powerful and influential nation.
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Einstien didn't create the nuclear bomb. He just gave E=mc square. Even if he would not be there, it would have been discovered few years later. America would have won, but maybe few years later. And yes, don't blame Einstien for nuclear bomb tragedy. It would be like blaming Newton if someone fall off a building, because he discovered the nature of Gravity !!
280483
What, knife, gun, atomic bomb? Please be more specific.
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No Nuke was needed or ever will be needed.\nWhat was needed was the guts and the balls to officially declare\nwar on those buggers, instead of sending thousands of our young to be maimed for life, die, then discrasse them when they did not come home in a body bag.
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A nuclear bomb is a weapon which derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fission or fusion. As a result, even a nuclear bomb with a relatively small yield is significantly more powerful than the largest conventional explosives, and a single bomb is capable of destroying an entire city.
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the u2 spy splane didnt exist till the 70s.  So neither was used.\n\nThere was only one jet engine in WW2, that was developed by the nazis in 1945 but were'nt able to use it properly.\n\n(that's what i understand anyway)
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No one did every body started doing it in world war II.\nTo get the full story go to the[exact] website below.
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Thers no telling how long the war would have lasted If we had not used the bomb. It likely would have gone on for years, probably killing even more people. The bomb made a very strong statement. Still I understand what you mean. I suppose no one really knows for sure.
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If you could get one down there, it would likely melt before detonation. If you could solve that problem, then the result MIGHT depend on the yield of the weapon... but it would have to be a few million times stronger than today's strongest weapons, since the immense molten iron core of the earth handles pressures and forces far in excess of anything we will ever experience, and probably stronger than anything we could ever create in the next five thousand years. Nukes are only scary for fragile surface creatures in a relatively tiny area, not for fiery iron spheres that are the size of the moon.
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The only nuclear weapons ever used in battle were at\nHiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on Aug 6 and Aug 9 1945.\nThey were the 2nd and 3rd nuclear devices ever exploded \nin history. The first was a test in Almogordo, New Mexico. The first and third explosions were from plutonium and the\nsecond, from uranium. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki\nweapons had code names, Little Boy and Fat Man. The names\nreflected their shape. Little Boy was narrow and long,\nsomewhat pencil shaped and had an explosive ignition.\nFat Man was altogether larger, spherical shaped and had \nan implosive ignition. Little Boy was carried by a B-29\nnamed Enola Gay after the captain's mother. Fat Man\nwas carried by a B-29 named Bock's Car after the captain's\nname. Both planes took off from Tinian Island.