Lower Tier Finials: Resolved: The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings were justified.

Contention R1A) simply dropping the bombs on different targets could have saved more lives. My opponent claims that dropping the atom bomb on a Japanese military island would have had the same affect if they were to have dropped the bomb on a civilian target, but this is false when it came to their military as they viewed their own military as expendable were they really valued pilots, but when I gave you the example in an earlier round of Saipan where the Japanese fought to the last man and their women and children on the island committed suicide even though the Marines attempted to save them. The Japanese pride would have had them continued fighting even though they were completely dominated and this was from the European Nations allowing them a form of appeasement that rivaled that of only Hitler. One thing that the bombings also helped with was the silencing of the Kyoto incident where the Japanese were attempting to overthrow the empower. If this assassination would have been completed then the Atomic bombings would have continued on Japan and the next scheduled bombing was on the 18th of August and the bombing of Japan into submission would have continued with the same effects of that of Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam. Con also dropped this argument so I’ll extend the defeating of the Kyujo incident across the board. The US government would not permit the forfeiture of the US constitution for the entire US and the we would likely see a reaction similar to Bush’s War on Terror to exterminate the bomber and the rest of his gang. As for Japan, I showed in the last round that the Japanese Security of War initiated martial law over the nation to prevent anyone from surrendering after the bombing of Hiroshima forcing the US to launch the second atomic bomb. Plus after the first bombing the Japanese came to the Japanese press and told them that the Japanese would ignore the Allied surrender demands and continue fighting. (Scoenberger, Walter (1969). Decision of Destiny. Columbus: Ohio University Press. pp. 248–249) Also my opponent drops my argument of the US dropping leaflet warnings to the people of Hiroshima that the US is planning on dropping the Atom Bomb. As a matter of fact the US dropped 65 million leaflets warning the Japanese of this attack months before detonation. (http://www.authentichistory.com...) Contention R1B: Japan’s Surrender was possible, if not probable. On August 7th, one day after the bombing on Hiroshima, the Japanese cabinet meet and even though Emperor Hirohito wanted the war to end the cabinet stood at disagreement with a 3-3 debate lock and they missed 3 key military leaders for the okay for the surrender. The military leaders disagreed that the bomb was of atomic nature and didn’t want to consider surrender. Emperor Hirohito conjured up another emergency meeting on the 9th of August and they agreed that the Americans didn’t have the ability to create another atomic bomb, and then Nagasaki happened. Emperor Hirohito then made a surprise appearance and broke the 3-3 tie since it required an animous decision for surrender. Hirohito said this to the cabinet: “I have given serious thought to the situation prevailing at home and abroad and have concluded that continuing the war can only mean destruction for the nation and prolongation of bloodshed and cruelty in the world. I cannot bear to see my innocent people suffer any longer.” As you can see that the atomic bombs caused the Japanese Emperor to act and urge the cabinet for surrender and if it wasn’t for the atomic bombings the Japanese would not have surrender without the speech and forced second meeting called by Emperor Hirohito. In the 1947 edition of Harper’s, former Secretary of War Stimson had seemingly changed his views on the bombings then what Con has stated when he stated: “All the evidence I have seen indicates that the controlling factor in the final Japanese decision to accept our terms of surrender was the atomic bomb.” On June 1st the US Scientific Panel wrote the following: “Mr. Byrnes recommended, and the Committee agreed, that the Secretary of War should be advised that, while recognizing that the final selection of the target was essentially a military decision, the present view of the Committee was that the bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible; that it be used on a war plant surrounded by workers’ homes; and that it be used without prior warning.” However the US did give the Japanese warning, as stated before, with the leaflets warning the Japanese of the bombing that would occur. Truman, who had just inherited the war from FDR, was advised by military, scientists, and political to drop the bomb and to end the war. R1C is addresed in this point. Contention LC2: Cold War My opponent forgets that the US did happen to drop an atomic bomb in a desolate location. The Trinity Bomb was detonated in the US and with this test of power no nation in the world flinched at it’s awe. (http://olive-drab.com...) My opponent also drops my argument last round of Japan being devided into North and South Japan much like Korea and Germany and the Cold War would have intensified due to the Soviet’s Communism and the Japanese anti-communistic views, hence the Anti-Communist Pact between NAZI Germany and Japan. Contention LC3: Japanese War Crimes. Though I agree for the most part that it’s not civilized, but with the American “Eye for an Eye” type philosophy the US public and much of the world had found it justifiabled for the Japanese War Crimes from the Rape of Manking to the Baatan Death March to the butchering of American POWs. This was even seen when Truman made the announcement of the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima by him saying that the Japanese have been paid back many fold showing that he himself was supporting such philosophy and seemingly Overman theory. (http://www.authentichistory.com...)