First of all, to correct the misconception of many people, the United States was not defeated in Vietnam, but tired, tired, and too lazy to fight.
In World War II, the United States defeated Japanese fascists almost entirely on its war potential. Together with Britain and France, they defeated the invincible German Nazis. Both the German Nazis and the Japanese fascists were mad and invincible, and both were beaten to the knees by the United States and begged for forgiveness, and almost destroyed the country.
Looking around, there is really no crazy and barbaric country in the future than the Nazis and fascists, such as Iraq, Vietnam and other regional tyrants according to the national strength of the United States, if they fight with their hearts, there is really no war that they cannot win, but the premise is that it is related to the life and death of the Us state, otherwise fools will use the strength of the whole country to fight.
In addition to the fact that the United States and Japan are in a life-and-death contest, other wars in the United States are playing and careless. So, the argument that the United States lost is inaccurate.
Whether the United States did not want to fight or defeat in the Vietnam War was very important in answering the question of why the United States did not use the atomic bomb.
The Purpose of the United States in fighting the Vietnam War was to prevent North Vietnam from annexing southern Vietnam, and it did not want to see a regime with a different ideology to unify Vietnam, it just wanted to maintain the status quo.
The United States entered the war on the basis of feeling that the South Vietnamese system was superior to that of the North Vietnamese and closer to itself. But if the South Vietnam that the US military is committed to maintaining is an unsupportable Ah Dou, a corrupt and incompetent regime, how can it justify itself before the world and how should it account before the American people? So the Americans in Vietnam are playing, playing well, saving South Vietnam is a political achievement, but also a pawn to contain the other camp.
But Vietnam is thousands of miles away from the United States, and Vietnam's chess piece is lost and has nothing to do with the overall situation, and there will be no end of losing every game. Therefore, the chess piece that cannot be saved abandons it, and the sand that cannot be held raises it. In this way, wouldn't it be normal for the United States not to use an atomic bomb?
Of course, the atomic bomb could not be used in South Vietnam, and the United States intervened in the Vietnam War to prop up South Vietnam against North Vietnam, not to destroy anyone. The purpose of the United States was only to maintain a North-South balance and not to prevent North Vietnam from eating South Vietnam, not to eliminate the North Vietnamese government. At that time, the North Vietnamese government had the upper hand in both the size of the territory and the population, or the military power, and the North Vietnamese aimed to eat South Vietnam, but the South Vietnamese did not have this power.
The United States doesn't have that delusion either. Because the United States faced not only north Vietnam, but the camp of the two great powers behind north Vietnam. The United States has learned the lessons of the Korean War, and it does not want to go to war directly with the two major powers. Therefore, the Bottom Line of U.S. intervention in Vietnam is to eliminate the North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam and prevent north Vietnam from upsetting this balance.
Therefore, the Americans did not need to use the atomic bomb in Vietnam, and at the same time, there was a lack of technical space for maneuvering.
In South Vietnam, the North Vietnamese were all their own people, and the North Vietnamese armed forces in South Vietnam were very small, all guerrillas, sporadic, and used atomic bombs to kill more of their own people than the enemy. Therefore, it is resolutely not available in South Vietnam.
In North Vietnam, I did not dare to use it. First of all, the Americans limited the war to South Vietnam as much as possible, which determined that the United States would not go to war in North Vietnam, and even more determined that the United States would not use nuclear weapons in North Vietnam.
Moreover, the Vietnam War was not just a civil war between North vietnam and South Vietnam, but a proxy war. America's primary enemies are the two great powers. If the United States had used nuclear weapons in North Vietnam, the two powers would never have stood idly by, and the two powers had already had atomic bombs in their hands, and their atomic bombs were not vegetarian. Once used, Vietnam will be erased from the map, and the first person to use the atomic bomb will be judged by history and become a sinner for eternity.
Once the precedent of atomic weapons is opened, it is equivalent to opening Pandora's box, the nuclear-weapon countries will follow suit, and the use of nuclear weapons in war will become a habit, so that human beings will not be far from the destruction of the earth.
How hard is it for the United States to use an atomic bomb? The use of atomic bombs in the United States does not want some people to think that it is as simple as chopping melons and cutting vegetables, and first of all, the American people will not agree.
During the war in Northeast Asia, the United Nations army was severely beaten by the volunteers, and the loss of soldiers was disgraced. On more than one occasion, General MacArthur demanded that the United States use nuclear weapons to reverse the passive situation on the battlefield and solve the North Korean problem once and for all.
But U.S. lawmakers have condemned and firmly opposed the dangerous idea. Polls conducted at different times in the United States show that more than half of the American people are "firmly opposed" to the use of nuclear weapons in war, and nearly half of the people "disapprove" of their use in war, and less than one percent said they approve of the use of nuclear weapons in the United States when the United States mainland is attacked.
None of those surveyed approved of the United States' initiative to use nuclear weapons against other countries. Since the American people are opposed, does any politician or government or public in the United States dare to violate the will of the people, unless he does not want to mix in the United States.
Of course, the Soviets' atomic bombs were also successfully detonated, and it was impossible for the Americans not to throw rat traps and weigh the consequences.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, americans who had never been attacked on their own soil were furious, and the anger of the US government and opposition made the whole world feel terrible. President Bush was even more outraged and demanded that all countries around the world take sides. Even Castro, America's nemesis, has come out to condemn the terrorist attacks.
It was then that Saddam Hussein stood up for schadenfreude, stabbed the Americans and provoked the killing. The US Congress is even more indignant and agitated. Lawmakers have even called for the use of nuclear weapons against Al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
But this statement was quickly met with strong opposition from all walks of life in the United States, and anti-nuclear demonstrations were set off across the United States, and the outspoken congressman had to apologize, which calmed the wave of protests.
It can be seen that the United States will not use nuclear weapons if it is not at a life-or-death juncture. In Vietnam, it is only the United States playing the game, winning or losing does not matter, not a desperate bet. Therefore, it was normal for the United States not to use atomic bombs in Vietnam.