The human cost
Alternates & What-ifs
General historic info
Why is this in a debate club jeopardy
100

The number of people who immediately died from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Who are approximately 110 000 people?

100

True or False: Many historians believe that the US could have started negotiations after dropping a singular nuke.  

What is True?

100

True or False: it was widely agreed that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing damaged Japan's military more than civilian life. 

What is False (military targets were nowhere near proportional)?

100

Comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years.

What is the letter M?

200

How many people died due to radiation poisoning (within 3 days) after Hiroshima.  

What is approx. 70000?

200

Some scientists believe this alternative use of a nuclear bomb would be enough to cause Japan to surrender.

What is drop in an uninhabited area?

200

The location (US state) of pearl harbour.

Where is Hawaii?

200

An Italian term that tells a pianist to play softly.

What is piano?

300

The death toll of the battle of Okinawa (Hint military personal and civilian)  

What is 310 000 people?
300

The US military believed that dropping the atomic bomb saved ________ of Japanese lives

a)hundreds of thousands

b)millions

c) tens of millions

d)a hundred million

What is b?

300

The successor of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the man president who authorized the use of nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Who is Trumen?

300

Chlorine says this when it leaves HCl?

What is byedrogen?

400

The amount of american lives lost in pearl harbour.

Who are 2400?

400

The Us military believed this was the only alternative to dropping the nukes.

What is a full land invasion of mainland Japan?

400

The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan started with the most bloody conflict in the Pacific.

What is the battle of Okinawa?

400

(67+67x0.67) x (33+34).

What is 7496.63?

500

A full Japan Allied land invasion was suspected to take this amount of causalities (closest answer wins).

What is 10.6 million (10 million Japanese & 600 thousand Allied forces)?

500

This European superpower would have likely invaded Japan if the US didn't drop the nuclear bombs. 

Who is the USSR?

500

This American non-nuclear bombing of Japan killed more people then Hiroshima.

What is the Tokyo Bombing?

500

Tell me WHY

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What is I WANT IT THAT WAY!

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