bombings on japan, were the really needed Options

[Mr. Psychotic]

do u guys think the 2 bombs dropped on japan during WW2 were really needed?
i say no because they just killed innoc3nt people in those 2 citys and it left a perment mental damage on my grandma (im japanese)
so what do u guys think

[*mipadi*]

There was a coup of some military officers that was stopped without much difficulty. It happened even with the bombing of Nagasaki, so I don't see how you can say that it would definitely have been successful without the bombing of Nagasaki. The fact is, Hirohito was likely going to surrender after Hiroshima, and it was likely that most of his government would go along with his plan.

[sadolakced acid]

There was a coup of some military officers that was stopped without much difficulty. It happened even with the bombing of Nagasaki, so I don't see how you can say that it would definitely have been successful without the bombing of Nagasaki. The fact is, Hirohito was likely going to surrender after Hiroshima, and it was likely that most of his government would go along with his plan.

hiroshima put japan off balance. they were ready to surrender. nagasaki tipped them to a for certain.

that military coup would have been much larger had nagasaki not been bombed. The military would have said "they only have one bomb- they can't hit us again"

nagasaki might have merely infuriated them to fight more, to fight bitterly, to have the entire nation fight, from children of 8 years old to grandmothers of 80, all with bamboo stakes.

is that the fight that you'd want, instead of bombing a city?