I think he would, but looking for others opinions

He was about ready to end the war, if only he had the option he would drop all 3 bombs, just to end it all.

He had followed the development of the bomb from the start, and I don't think he would worried to much if the bomb would have saved a million allied casualties

He'd have dropped it in a cold minute. Roosevelt was, afterall, the man who listened to Einstein's letter and got the ball rolling for the Manhattan Project. I have no doubt he'd have dropped the bomb.

Roosevelt had to drop them since it was the only way to end the war without the invasion of Japan.By sacrificing a couple thousand innocent japanese lives he saved the lives of millions of american and jap soldiers.
Roosevelt was hoping the bombs would scare the japs and make them realize they are defeated

ok, I agree with what has been said so far, and moving this thread along, I have another question. Do you think it would have been better for the US forces to drop the bomb in a souly military target, or would it have been better to drop it where they did, hiroshima and nagasaki? Would it have been better for them to drop it on an island such as iwo jima?

hoohaa....when they the Americans had the bomb ready they were already in Iwo Jima...As to dropping it on a military target, well docks are military targets there was industry in all these places using slave labour and there barracks as well in most of these cities so just how do you pick out what is military or which is non military with an atom bomb. Also if they did not want to surrender after first bomb, then a second one had to be used. By dropping the bomb on the Japanese mainland the Government could not hide just what had happened, yet if you dropped it on an island who is going to tell the Japanese people.

I know that Iowa Jima was to late, I was just using that as an example.


what you said, or wrote, whatever, is true, but, I was just saying that a slightly more military target could have been selected. Especially since the American public has always been so angry whenever they hear that the military has killed innocent civilians. I'm just surprised there wasn't a worldwide retaliation to the US killing many hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.

You course he would have dropped the bomb.
The dangers of radiation weren't fully known until after the bombs were dropped.
To the Allied leaders it was just a powerful bomb, it wasn't the bogey weapon it is today.

hoohaa........Just what is an innocent civilian, is a person that is making weapons of war innocent of all blame from the deaths that they cause, if civilians are killed in bombing raid are they just the casualties of war. Very Young children of eight to ten years old were working in factories producing weapons and they were also being trained as suicide bombers.What about the German Hitler youth regiments that fought so bravely for their country and died at there posts are you saying that they should not have been killed. Also what about the millions the Chinese slaughtered on there conquest of China to make room for Japanese settlers was that not wrong. The aim of dropping the bomb was to end the war with the minimum of casualties and that is just what it did.