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Originally Posted by AJG
What are you talking about?
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im taking about what you said. in your own words:
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One of the points of the A-Bomb was to show Japan our raw power. What if we showed them what the A-Bomb could potentially do instead of without warning dropping a massive bomb on a populated place? The Japaneese government was obviously afraid of our power and that's why the surrendered. Why couldn't we scare them without actually killing so many people?
Well, if that wouldn't work then I would rather have hundreds of thousands die instead of a few million.
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Well, wouldn't you say it would have atleast been better to get their attention? I'm sure there were less populated places where they could have set off the bomb.
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But why does it matter where they set it off? Perhaps little boy might not have detonated at all either. Fortunately or unfortunately it did, so that would mean if they tried it on a (not necessarily a deserted island) less populated area then it would have worked there.
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For there to be any impact at all it needs to effect the lives of the Japanese. For that to happen the bomb must land in place where there's atleast people and roads and such so it effects the government. That way it would atleast get attention and they will know what kind of power the US holds over Japan. They didn't need to display their might while killing hundreds of thousands. Better a few thousand than hundreds of thousands
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It was weak. It neither effected or scared the Japanese. It needed an impact for the scare tactic to work (perhaps destroying a network of roads or a town with a low population).
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I'm not talking about test bombs. I'm talking about the real deal. Fat man and little boy. They could have threatended the country with a larger target each time. That in my book would be a very effective scare tactic. Theaten to use it. No response. BOOM! Lands in a small small town. No response. BOOM! Lands in a slightly more populated area. No response. BOOM! Lands in a small city. By the time you reach the small city they would be very afraid of the how large the next target will be.
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your "testing" is scare tactics to make them surrender. and if they don't. then what????? more testing???? how many bomb testing do you need???? still no surrender. now what??? how many "tests" do you need. where is the limit???? how far are you prepared to go??? is there a limit to this???? if you use the 2 bombs we have and they still won't surrender then what????