Why did America bomb Hiroshima?

1. To stop the Russians
2. To test the plutonium against the uranium bomb
3. To test the bomb on whole cities that hadn't been touched da precedente bombingin order to get an accurate assessment of the complete damage of nuclear weapons
4.Because they could not find Tokyo as it was hidden da low cloud..and America knew it could not win the Pacific war
5.Because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
da dropping the bomb.....
.....the US wouldn't be invading Japan. No invasion means no US lives lost.
.....war ended in Aug 1945. Emperor agrees to surrender thus stopping all Japanese military and civilian fighting (except those hiding in caves who never hear that the war is over. One guy was found in a cave in the 1950s o 60s and sent home to Giappone where he received a superhero's welcome).
.....Japanese dead and wounded limited to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Invasion of Japan, code named"Operation Downfall", and not dropping the bomb.......
....Estimates of up to 250,000-500,000 dead and wounded Americans in the 2 phases of the invasions and the ensuing fighting. Upwards of 1,000,000 Japanese dead and wounded, civilian and military. Civilians were receiving military training in order to assist in defending against the impeding invasion.
....Phase 1 of the invasion, code named "Operation Olympic", was scheduled for Oct 45 with Phase 2, code named "Operation Coronet", was scheduled for March 46. No estimate dato for the end of the war.
....Even after"defeat" of Japan, US Military leadersin Wash DC believed that Giappone would begin an insurgency campaign that could last until the early to mid-1950s. (Just like the Philippines from 1899-1902 and Iraq today) In order to save millions of lives and put an end toa very costly war for all. The United States decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved an estimated one million American lives and millions of japanese lives, which would havebeen sacrificed da an invasion of Giappone according to the Pentagon's segnala to President Harry Truman.
complessivamente, generale it was a large number of factors combined that caused the decision.

Well here's a few

-to save american lives

-to shorten the war they had with japan

-and to scare the russians because they were fighting with the russians and they thought if they drop an atomic bomb people would be scared of them



























NOW WHERE'S MY CANDY?

OMFG WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!?
This domanda is so stupid if I hadn't been personally affected da the whole Giappone war crap I'd just have reported this question...

ANyways alright, little history lesson.

Giappone bombed Pearl Harbor for no reason at all, they just wanted to be as powerful as Hitler.
Then, Giappone took over the Dutch colony Dutch-Indonesia. (Which is now Indonesia) and put Dutch-Indonesian people such as my grandfather in camps and because my grandfather was strong he wasn't killed da the Japanese and they forced him to work. So they made him cook riso for the other people in the work camps the Japanese put up. But there were also sick and old people there, so he gave them a larger amount of Cibo so they wouldn't die.
For that, he had 3 gunshot wounds in his leg. Each one shot da a Japanese soldier.

If America hadn't bombed Hiroshima that war would have never ended and I'd be speaking Japanese now.

Sure it's horrible what happened with Hiroshima but Giappone had it coming. te should ask yourself what the fuck was wrong with Japan.

Giappone bombed Pearl Harbour, because they felt threatened da America and there was some feud between them about some resource I can't remember.
Obviously America fought back, resulting in the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Thanks to Giappone bombing Pearl Harbour America joined the war.

Um, did te miss the part where Giappone bombed Pearl Harbor?

Um... did te know that this was World War 2?
Americans knew that a blockade of Giappone would never work since they continued to fight. So that meant that US troops would have to invade mainland Japan. Everyone knew that a lot of US troops would be killed. Harry S. Truman wanted to avoid that, and at that time, the atomic bomb was tested in a desert in New Mexico, and it was successful. When told about the test, he decided to use the weapon.

That's one of the reasons why American used the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Potato

WHAT the fuck is wrong with you? Actually read a history book. IN WW2 Giappone bombed America. We didn't start it. -__- Read a book o do research on the web and don't take everything from cartoni animati o Anime literally.

Also you're asking what is wrong with America. It was a fucking war. Things like that happen in war.