If japan didnt surrender after nagasaki and hiroshima, what next?

Question

If japan didnt surrender after nagasaki and hiroshima, what next?

Answer 1

It has been, recently, disclosed that Tojo wanted to continue the war even after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We allowed the Emperor Tojo to save face with his people. It was probably a good move.

We had plans to invade Japan. Unfortunately, those plans were made by MacArthur's staff. MacArthur was, perhaps, the worst military tactician to hold the rank of general.  Even he predicted a million American lives would be lost should we attack the Japanese homeland.

I would like to add that the poster, Eli, seems to know something of history. One of the reasons we dropped the bomb was to keep Russia from entering the war against Japan. Russia wanted to dominate the region. We had to end the war rapidly to prevent their getting rewards in a peace agreement. Even so, we still had the Korean War.

I want to tell you that I have visited China several times. I have visted Manchuria, the region north of Korea  between Russia and Korea. They were quite proud of the factories that Russia built for them. We narrowly averted Russian domination.

And we DID hit Tokyo. Remember the fire bombings? They devastated Tokyo worse than an A-bomb of that time could have.

Answer 2

Land invasion and more fire bombings.

Remember the US only produce 3 nuclear bomb, one was use on the testing, and two on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

That's why the first bomb detonate was name "Trinity" for three.

Answer 3

Invasion of Tokyo.  

Answer 4

luckily Japan believed the American bluff about having a third nuclear device. Had they not surrendered there would have been catastrophic losses in human lives on both sides. Especially the Japanese. Im not saying that to be an arrogant American but the Japanese had so much pride that they would do anything and everything to die for their country and make their families proud.

America told Japan after fat man they had another, Japan did not believe. Then Little boy was dropped. Despite its name littleman was actually bigger in the amount of explosives than fat man.

Answer 5

We would've done it again elsewhere. They would've eventually surrendered regardless.

Answer 6

I'm sure we had more than 2 nukes. We'd probably have kept pounding them till they stopped.

Answer 7

Hitting Tokyo would have been a major mistake. Ouir government would not have done that. We would have hit another city, or just starved them into surrender. We had the might, and the ability to do just that.

Answer 8

The United States Made it clear it would continue to execute every major city in Japan until they surrended. At the time they were the "Kingdom of Japan" And a little larger than moderan day "Japan". In fact the U.S Territory Guam used to be apart of the K.O.J. Before World War 2.

Answer 9

We had more than two weapons but those were the only two in the area at the time.  A ground invasion of Japan was ruled out due to the excessive American casualties projected.  Wars are determined on how much you dish out and not what you can take.  Tokyo would have been impractical with the structure of the Japanese government at the time.  I agree that other bombs would have been dropped but they would have been dropped on other targets.  No president could live with the sheer number of fatalities that a bomb drop on Tokyo would have created.  Also, the government needed to remain intact since they were the only ones capable of ordering a surrender and making it stick.

Answer 10

"Tokyo" hahaha awesome

I think those were the only 2 bombs we had at the time, and we had to drop 2 so they knew we had more than one.  We would have bombed them again eventually I'm sure though.

Answer 11

It would have taken America at least another half year to produce another atomic bomb. The two choices would have been invasion or just sit back. To be honest the USSR would sweep down and into Korea taking that, and then the US would probaly feel threatened and invade Japan.

Answer 12

They wanted to surrender two months before that,but became quinea pigs instead.

Answer 13

Tokyo.