Science Forums 2

[Freddy]

The Japanese were a defeated nation by the summer of 1945. Dropping the two atomic bombs shortened the war preventing the planned US invasion of Japan. The Japanese were forced to leave every country they had invaded. Without the atomic bombing it would have perhaps taken a year longer at the most to defeat Japan. Communism under Mao and Ho Chi Minh had roots in China and Vietnam, respectively, before and during the Pacific War 1931-1945. France moved back into Vietnam quickly after WWII was over with US financial backing, but the communists fought back and pushed them out in 1954. Then the US slowly began sending military advisers to South Vietnam and by March 1965 US Marines ground troops landed at DaNang. I see no connection to a communist Vietnam and the atomic bombings.

One theory states that the atomic bombs were dropped to end the war quickly which kept the communist USSR from having any say in Japan's fate after its defeat.

Another theory states that because the US possessed nuclear weapons it made the Korean and Vietnam Wars less risky in that USSR and China would not intervene. China called the US in Korea.