The decision(s) to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki were made because the best available estimates indicated that fewer people would die from Fat Man and Little Boy than would die if the allied forces (mostly meaning America in the Pacific Front) were to attempt to invade Japan. Yes, the bombs killed a great number of individuals. However, it was felt that more would have died had they not been used; the bombs were dropped in an effort to bring the war to its end without any more deaths than absolutely necessary.
Hm.. actually, you're completely wrong. The U.S. was island hoping, and it was taking way too long to reach mainland Japan. So, the military decided to get close enough to drop nukes, and therefore try to win the war
quicker. We didn't gave a damn if civilians were hurt or not. And the reason we chose those two cities out of all the rest is b/c they had remained unscathed so far in the war.. other cities had been bombed previously, and already had damage. The U.S. wanted to show how powerful our new weapons were.. they could completely annihilate untouched cities.
So, the U.S. nuked Japan to end the war quicker, not to minimize civilian casualties... and those specific cities were chosen to prove out strength. Perhaps you should actually
know and
understand something before you post
You're thinking of the 80's era Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, aka 'Star Wars') program. To my knowledge, the laser-driven portion has not been tested. (Note to the real experts: If I'm wrong about this, please link me to the evidence so I can look at it.) As I understand it, the missle-shield portion has been tested, but in the same way that a sledgehammer could batter down a normal shield, a strong enough missle strike could overwhelm the missle shield.
Yea, AFAIK the U.S. has no working nuclear missile shield.
Theres the 3 minute warning, this was a big thing in the 50s and 60s but then kinda got phased out. Basically if the sirens sounded, you had 3 minutes to get to a fallout shelter
haha.. well that sure is nice of them to give you a 3 minute warning until you are completely obliterated. It's not like the people could do much..
[edit]afaik=As Far As I Know
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