If the atomic bomb had 'NOT' been dropped on Japan do you think you would be around today?

yes, but it would have cost many more american and others their lives through continued hostilities. the japan of the era was under the rule of a 'god king'. their form of theocracy would have meant, quite probably, to have to battle through every bit of japan to finally win. I think all of the west should thank lucky stars that the bomb was here, especially the united states.

The first atomic bomb was actually detonated in New Mexico during the predawn hours of July 16, 1945 and forever changed the world. Here, the incredible destructive powers of the atom were first unleashed and what had been merely theoretical became reality. August 6, 1945 - the sun rose into a clear blue sky over the city of Hiroshima, Japan promising a warm and pleasant day. Nothing in the day's dawning indicated that this day would be any different from its predecessors. But this day would be different, very different. This day would change the world again. On this day a single bomb dropped by a single airplane destroyed the city, leading to the end of World War II and introducing mankind to the Atomic Age. The bomb's mushroom cloud rises 20,000 feet above the

city soon after the blast.

Had these events not been the beginning of the end of the war, who knows who would have or not have been here to study the outcome. Maybe there would be no cililization at all.

And thank God we will never be able to figure that one out.

Japan was no threat. It wasn't hard for the US with it's naval blockade to totally isolate Japan. Japan didn't have the raw materials to be a threat to the US because of this ongoing blockade. Some experts say that Japan was forced into Pearl Harbr attack because of the blockade, they had nothing to lose. The country was going to starve.

You should do your own research and not rely on your school history book for the truth.

According to most leading experts, the US dropped the bomb as a message to USSR to not even think about messing with the them. The Cold War was wrought out of the decision to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Russian people got behind the arms race when they saw that a country such as the US could possibly use nuclear weapons against civilians. The Russian people got scared and supported the notion of building ups arms as protection against what they perceived as an aggressive unjust action.

The US was under tremendous pressure from supporters of Christian missionaries in China because the Japanese were bombing China and killing many of these missionaries. History and the motivations for doing some of the most heinous acts recorded are mostly hidden because history is written by the "winners" not the losers.

If evil is measured by the amount of killing one does on innocent victims, Hitler was an extremely evil man. Killing 6 million innocent people. But the US's ally and Roosevelt's friend, who he called "Uncle Joe" and a "good Christian gentleman" was Joseph Stalin...estimated to have been responsible for more than 20 million innocent lives lost. Stalin initiated the Great Purge, a campaign of political repression, persecution, and killings.

Who was more evil?

There's no doubt WE would be around. The war was almost already won. There were tens of U.S. aircraft carriers in the Pacific, and the Japanese navy was almost completely gone. The question is: would the Japanese still be around? I think an invasion would have done more harm to Japan than the dropping of the two bombs. I think they would have charged the beaches with samurai swords and whatever weapons they had left. The reason is the military controlled the government in Japan, and not the emperor, who was a figure-head and well respected but who didnt call the shots, no pun!!!

Yes, but what is rarely mentioned in history classes is that Japanese leaders were already coming to an agreement to surrender, thus ending the war without the need for us to drop the bomb.

Yes we would unless the Bomb was dropped on us by Germany and Russia on our relatives and then that would mean we wouldn't be right?

No one can answer this with factual first hand knowledge for all of this is purely hypothetical. Clearly the strategic differences with all the speculations of the outcomes of WW2 will be online under the debates and philosophical studies under History, you might want to join in on those debates as well. Check your chat lines.

We should all thank McCarthy and Truman. We would be still fighting WW 2 if they didn't drop 2 bombs.

Absolutely. I feel the US went TOO far by dropping the bomb, and Japan was not nearly as big a threat as we made them out to be.

Yes but my name would not be Luke it woul be little adolph. I would be 27 years old have blonde hair and be able jump very high and be very clever. I woul still live in England but it would probarbly be called

Englanschtein. And I would be talking German. Shame lots of innocent Japs got killed, but it did indeed stop the second world war and stop England being invaded. The Yanks got involved a few years too late as usual though.. (As usual)

Of course. The fact that the US committed the biggest atrocities in human history doesn't change my life.