How many Japanese lives were saved by atomic bombs?
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I would have to say that it would be impossible to know the answer, Pure speculation...however, after reviewing the facts:\n\n1. Japan had made overtures via Sweden of negotiating a peace prior to Hiroshima.\n2. However, they did openly turn down the Potsdam demands for unconditional surrender.\n3. Like you mentionioned, Iow Jima and Okinawa showed their army's determination to fight to the last man, altho it may not have proven that the civilians would've done the same on Japan proper.\n4. The first nuclear detonation did not bring immediate surrender from the Japanese leaders.\n5. By using the bomb, we lost the moral argument after the war that the A-bomb should be controlled and never used.\n6. The bombing of civilians was recognized as barbaric before the war and in the Geneva conventions, and yet the allies began using incendiaries on Dresden, Tokyo causing major firestorms.\n7. By ending the war earlier, we did not give the Soviets a chance to mount an offensive against Japan and create a Soviet Bloc as they did in Europe.\n8.Oppenheimer, Fermi and others considered the alternative, increased American casualties vs ending the war sooner by using the weapons, and they recommended the use of the bombs. There were some scientists who recommended a demonstration to show the Japanese leaders the potential devastation, but they were overrulled.\n\nMy opinion is that we did save Japanese lives that would've exceeded the number killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, vis a vis the continued encendiary bombing of Japanese cities and loss due to "fighting" to the last man mentality that showed at Iwo and Okinawa.\n\nThe number of allied lives saved, i would guess, would be around 200,000, but that's only pulling a number out of the sky...the US stated hundreds of thousands, if not more.
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all i know is that 6 million people died in the Holocaust\n\nand 40 million died in war world 2
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options #6\n\n15,000 nukes in one's arsenal
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I used to live in Japan and I have been to Hiroshima. As horrible as it was I really think the bombs saved lives on both sides. I have met older Japanese who have told me about being trained to repel the invasion with bamboo spears as children. Even after Nagasaki an anti-surrender faction attempted a coup. A blockade might have been an alternative strategy but then a lot of Japanese would have starved to death. Don't forget that there were POWs and civilian internees that were dieing from disease and starvation at the time in Japanese camps. Truman's first responsibilty was to bring the war to it's earliest possible conclusion.
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The bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fission bombs, with respective yields of 15 and 22 kilotons.  A fission bomb generates about 4,000,000 Megajoules of energy per kiloton of explosive force, so the Hiroshima bomb would have produced 60,000,000 Megajoules of energy while the Nagasaki bomb produced 88,000,000 Megajoules.
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we dropped lots and lots and lots of bombs on japan, too many to count or even name each one...so i take you are talking about the atomic ones named: fatman and little boy\n\nLittle Boy was dropped from a B-29 bomber piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Col. Paul W. Tibbets. Tibbets had named the plane Enola Gay after his mother the night before the atomic attack.\n\nMajor Charles W. Sweeney piloted the B-29, #77 that dropped Fat Man. After the nuclear mission, #77 was christened Bockscar after its regular Command Pilot, Fred Bock.\n\non an ineresting note, one reason Hiroshima and Nagasaki were picked as locations was due in large part to the fact that we had already destroyed much of every other city through fire-bombing.
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go here: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/hiroshima/\n\nit should help you find the answers you're looking for!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
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the United States military dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively. At least 120,000 people, about 95% of which were civilian, were killed outright, and around twice as many over time.
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Approximately 2,986.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11#Fatalities
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The bomb dropped on the 6th was named "Little Boy"\nThe bomb dropped on the 9th was named "Fat Man"\n\nThe 2nd was dropped after Japan refused to surrender & it was estimated over 500,000 - 1,000,000 American soldiers would be required to defeat Japan. There was no code word - they left on their mission knowing what they would have to do, unless new orders came.
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China got involved in WWII (or before the official WWII dates) when the Japs invaded China. Notice that the Japs killed about 9 million Chinese civilians in total, 90 times the number of Japs that died in the atomic bombings.\n\nThe Japanese today STILL deny that they were the aggressors in WWII and their prime minister still vists the gaves of war criminals today). \n\nSee Casualty rates below:\n\nCountry Pop. China  450m  \nKilled/Mising  1.3 million  \nWounded  1.8 million \nTotal(Military)  3.1 million  \nCivilian (deaths) 9 million
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Our War strategy was called "ISLAND HOPING"...this meant we would attack and conquer one Island in the chain of Islands going towards Japan and then skip the next Island and then Conquer the next Island in the chain of Islands and so forth and so on.\nBut after conquering the Island of Okinawa, president Harry S. Truman gave the go ahead to drop first one ATOMIC BOMB, not "Nuclear" on the Japanese city of HIROSHIMA and ask the Japanese to surrender, but they refused to surrender.  So two weeks later we again dropped another ATOMIC BOMB on the city of NAGASAKI and Japan finally capitulated, thus ending World War Two.
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In Japan a few years ago the workers at one facility were carrying radioactive solutions in buckets from one place to another where they put so much of it that it started having nuclear reactions from reaching a critical amount.  This was amazing news, but it happens that the people doing mundane, dirty, or high exposure work often know little and are only following or misfollowing instructions of more knowledgeable scientists who are not always there to prevent mistakes.\n\nAlso, one time in the USA, out west, a man was working on a reactor and, they say, everyone had been told not to remove a certain vital control rod.  But he did, and instantly the reactor exploded, releasing radioactive contaminants inside the containment.  The mans body was found on the ceiling impaled by the control rod.\n\nThat sounds like a made up story, I know, but I have heard it told about three times from VERY reputable and different sources.\n\nAnother time was during the testing of fissionable materials in the laboratory at Los Alamos where the first atom bombs were developed.\n\nOne scientist was investigating critical mass by bringing two hemispheres or pieces of fissionable materials slowly closer to each other on some kind of track.  He got them too close and did not get them apart fast enough.  The radiation exposure was so intense he died shortly after that, also I believe one other person who was in the room.
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Yes.\n\nThe first one did not induce a change of their position and there is some evidence that the Japanese thought that we only had one... when in actuality we only had two! \n\nThe whole point was to end the war as quickly as possible to prevent further loss of life... on both sides.
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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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it was 2 atomic bombs that were used to change the attitudes of the japanese government.a hydrogen bomb is much more powerful and back then they had no way of transporting that kind of power.the germans had a scientist who did come up with the idea and he came to america to share his knowledge of the atomic bomb,Albert Einstein.and if atomic were used today in a war,it would be as effective today as it was back then.