Reply #278: We dropped one on a city and they didn't surrender.

[AtheistCrusader]

So I don't know how dropping one in an uninhabited area would help... Plus we dropped leaflets warning this, among other cities, were about to be "destroyed". They didn't know exactly how, but this is after the firebombing of parts of Tokyo, with conventional weapons, with a higher loss of civilian life than Hiroshima. We had the means to erase cities without using the atomic bomb, it was just a lot harder.

War sucks. The only way to 'win', is not to play.


In 1959, the man who led the raid on Pearl Harbor, Mitsuo Fuchida, met Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped 'Little Boy' on Hiroshima. Fuchida had this to say:

"You did the right thing. You know the Japanese attitude of that time, how fanatic they were. They'd die for the Emperor. Every man, woman and child would have resisted the invasion with sticks and stones, if necessary. Can you imagine what a slaughter it would be to invade Japan?"

I would also like to point out, the japanese navy, crippled as it was, managed to sink the USS Indianapolis, the ship that delivered the bomb components to a forward airbase for final assembly, and deployment. 2/3rds of the crew died, awaiting rescue that wasn't coming, because the ship's mission was top secret. Granted, it was one of the last Allied ships sunk.