Typically speaking
I've just always wondered
Thanks
Are Americans sorry or proud of the booming of Hiroshima?
2015-12-23 8:18 am
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2015-12-23 9:20 am
Proud.
It stopped the war, saved millions of additional lives, and allowed japan to rebuild without American resentment. Five years later we walked away with japan an economic power.
Compare that to Vietnam or Iraq.
It stopped the war, saved millions of additional lives, and allowed japan to rebuild without American resentment. Five years later we walked away with japan an economic power.
Compare that to Vietnam or Iraq.
2015-12-23 8:25 am
It ended the war that would have killed a massive number of young American men if we had not done what we did. The emperor would have never given up otherwise.
2015-12-23 8:17 pm
Neither proud, nor sorry. I feel the same way about it, as the bombing of Germany in ww II. Just something that had to be done.
You don't win wars by playing nice. Also, Japan got the 'ball rolling' by bombing Pearl Harbor 1st.
You don't win wars by playing nice. Also, Japan got the 'ball rolling' by bombing Pearl Harbor 1st.
2015-12-23 3:46 pm
The whole war was a tragedy. The argument that it saved lives is not far off the mark. The two bombings killed less than 200,000 people. Allied estimates of Japanese casualties after an invasion ran into at least a million, and that didn't include Allied soldiers.
Nor was the use of terrible weapons unprecedented. Firebombing was already common and Tokyo was firebombed late in 44 or early in 45. Firebombs used magnesium devices to create fires that couldn't be put out with water and which burned at a much higher temperature. The effect was a massive firestorm, much like a tornado of fire miles wide.
The atomic weapons were even more dramatic.
Nor was the use of terrible weapons unprecedented. Firebombing was already common and Tokyo was firebombed late in 44 or early in 45. Firebombs used magnesium devices to create fires that couldn't be put out with water and which burned at a much higher temperature. The effect was a massive firestorm, much like a tornado of fire miles wide.
The atomic weapons were even more dramatic.
2015-12-23 10:28 am
I do not think anyone is very proud or happy about it, but in comparison with what would have happen in an invasion of the Japanese home islands the bombings probably saved many lives Japanese and American.
2015-12-23 8:17 pm
Not proud but also not guilt ridden. We're mostly sad but resigned about it.
During WWII it was known that the close Allied troops got to Japan the harder the Japanese fought. It was going to take 1+ million US deaths and very many millions of Japanese deaths to finish the war. Americans wanted neither. Killing more Japanese had never been the goal in the first place. Any method that put an end to the war quickly would save millions of lives on both sides.
It's sad how many were killed in the world's first nuclear bombing but the war would have cost vastly more. No sane person can be proud of killing hundreds of thousands with two weapons. No sane person will turn down the chance to reduce the killing by a factor of 100.
A few hundred thousand to save ten million or more had to be the right decision but it's not one to be proud of. So we are resigned to that part of our history. Being the right thing to do at the time makes both pride and guilt inappropriate reactions.
During WWII it was known that the close Allied troops got to Japan the harder the Japanese fought. It was going to take 1+ million US deaths and very many millions of Japanese deaths to finish the war. Americans wanted neither. Killing more Japanese had never been the goal in the first place. Any method that put an end to the war quickly would save millions of lives on both sides.
It's sad how many were killed in the world's first nuclear bombing but the war would have cost vastly more. No sane person can be proud of killing hundreds of thousands with two weapons. No sane person will turn down the chance to reduce the killing by a factor of 100.
A few hundred thousand to save ten million or more had to be the right decision but it's not one to be proud of. So we are resigned to that part of our history. Being the right thing to do at the time makes both pride and guilt inappropriate reactions.
2015-12-23 10:11 am
It was an American, Canadian, and British thing. All three countries had to agree with the bombing for it to happen.
And, no, no-one is proud of it. It had to be done, but, it wasn't fun at all.
And, no, no-one is proud of it. It had to be done, but, it wasn't fun at all.
2015-12-23 12:01 pm
They should be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court ! For several cases.
2015-12-25 5:53 am
Neither. It's a shame that it had to happen but the war had to end quickly as the death toll would have sored with an invasion of Japan.
2015-12-25 12:49 am
Pride had nothing to do with it. By 1945 the Atomic Bomb ended a long, bloody war that cost the Axis and Allies millions of deaths in the Pacific.
2015-12-24 7:37 pm
Niether. The bombing of Hiroshima was a regrettable necessity. The war started as a result of a terrorist attack on Pearl Harbor. During the war in the Pacific Japanese soldiers routinely practiced war crimes like murdering people during the Bataan Death March because their victims were starving and could not keep up with the well fed Japanese. They looked for any excuse they could to kill Australian and American soldiers and they regularly did just that. Japanese soldiers also abused Korean Comfort Women and amused themselves buy bayonetting Chinese babies in front of their mothers. That kind of warfare, based on terror and torture and worse, was the routine way the Japanese fought. And when Germany surrendered in May of 1945 the Chinese had no intention of surrendering. At that point US and Australian soldiers were exhausted; their ability to fight was limited. A ground attack would have cost more lives than the atom bombs and most livelily would have ended in a draw, leaving the Koreans and the Chinese to the mercy of the Japanese. That is why President Truman decided that the only option left was the atomic bomb.
2015-12-24 5:43 am
Primarily one of gratitude that President Truman had the courage to do it and to bring the war to a prompt conclusion. Japan was determined to fight to the last man, and if the bombs had not been dropped, it would have been necessary to invade the home islands, and hundreds of thousands of additional lives, U.S. and Japanese, would have been lost. All death in war is sad, but lest we feel too sorry for the Japanese, remember that we were in a declared war that they started. On December 7, 1941, the day on which they made their unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor, their smiling, bowing, slit-eyed, treacherous, devious "diplomats" were in Washington, D.C., pretending to negotiate a peace agreement.
2015-12-23 11:32 pm
what Athena said
2015-12-23 4:34 pm
As for myself, I say neither. But it was a war, we were on the verge of invading Japan, and using any weapon that could be used to end it soon was justified.
2015-12-26 6:10 pm
NOT PROUD...BUT WHY DID THE JAPANESE STATION ALL OF THEIR HIGH LEVEL OFFICERS IN HIROSHIMA? IT MAKES SENSE THAT IAMERICANS/ALLIES TOOK OUT THE HGH-RANKING BRASS! WHY DID THE JAPANESE CHOOSE TO LOCATE THEIR TOP-LEVEL OFFICERS IN A HIGHLY POPULATED AREA? THAT WAS LIKE "ASKING FOR IT!"
2015-12-23 8:24 pm
We felt it was necessary. Today we regret that it had to be done. But given identical circumstances, we'd do it again.
2015-12-23 8:41 am
that was in retaliation for the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor. They started it, and we finished it.
2015-12-25 6:08 pm
We're proud of the fact that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved millions of American and Japanese lives had we invaded. Off course, we aren't proud that tens of thousands of non-combatants died in the crossfire, but they were victims of collateral damage and also victims of a regime that engaged in territorial ambitions and conquest and willfully targeted non-combatants anywhere they went, which brought Asia and the United States into the war with them. Remember, the Japanese STARTED the Pacific War by bombing and killing thousands of non-combatants in their sleep at Pearl Harbor due to the fact we weren't officially at war with Japan to begin with and were still in the negotiating peace table. So without Pearl Harbor, there wouldn't be any Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Reap what you sow.
2015-12-25 2:45 pm
Jubilant and sad
2015-12-24 2:59 am
i believe americans proud of booming so that USA will alway be number one. the sad thing is we USA can alway make connection back
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