Was The Dropping Of The Atomic bomb Justified?

BRAVO! This is the exact type of stuff people need to hear. eople just think of the deaths that happened, but there could have been more like a million. People need to think about what could have happened and need to think about the future.

I agree with Wasabi. People are to general about this. They only think about the deaths but the thing is, there could have been much more than there were. This needs to go out man! Great stuff.

I agree with Wasabi. People are to general about this. They only think about the deaths but the thing is, there could have been much more than there were. This needs to go out man! Great stuff.

I agree with Wasabi. People are to general about this. They only think about the deaths but the thing is, there could have been much more than there were. This needs to go out man! Great stuff.

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Furthermore, you equate death to economics; undoubtedly, the nation was justified in entering the war, which it should have sooner, yet it took a selfish motive (retribution specifically to Japan for the Pearl Harbor attack) to compel it to.So then, despite Germany’s conquest of Europe and their systematic annihilation of a people, US intervention was driven only by revenge, not the necessity to see justice done?

I think the greatest fallacy of this entire report is right at the beginning; the title itself. Completely ironic that you portrayed the Japanese as savage, didn’t conceive the Allied might’ve behaved similarly, and most of all, NEVER discussed the cons of dropping the bomb, focusing only on misguided pros, unsupported by facts or any compassion in general.
To answer your rhetorical question at the end; yes, I STILL ADAMANTLY oppose the decision, and Truman’s authorization was purely for imperialist cause. If anything, my opinion has been inflamed since this report sparked my thoughts and teachings.

If you’d like to debate further, you can feel free respond, so long as you have an educated rebuttal.

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this is horrrible.
so many people have sufferen and slowly died. some people have had perminate damage done to their bodies. and the sad thing is that these people were innocent!

how would u feel if all of a sudden your whle family died and you had scars all over your bady from melted skin when you had no part in the war? then ended up slowly died about 10 years later after everyone treats you different and always stares at you like your some kind of allien!

you slowly die of cancer that is slowly and painfully eating away your insided

all just because we couldnt sit down like adults and work things out!!!!!!!

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The argument was pretty one-sided.

Your argument is pretty one-sided and informal, I have to admit. It would have been stronger if you had more statistics and it was more fact-based.

But in your defense, if we had continued without our alternative invasion plan, then more Americans on our side would have been lost, an estimated 250,000-1 million. Also citizens were encouraged to commit suicide if they were going to be captured. So the war would have been pretty grusome.

For the most part, the deaths caused by the atomic bomb were painless, although I feel sorry for the ones that weren’t.

You’re definitely right about our financial situation, though. We had already spent millions on a bomb, and we were running low on resources.

Very well said,
it has changed my prespective,
i always thought the bombs were unjustified,
but now i know where you are coming from.
thanks for the great information

……these are some funny comments and thank you person who wrote report and thank you daniel you help me wit my report =]

i am in between on this decision yes,i think it should have been dropped like you said millions of American soldiers died but so did Japaneses soldiers. i also think it wasn’t a good idea to drop it because the bomb killed millions of innocent Japaneses people and not every one was for the war, just like not everyone in the U.S. to go to war either. however i do see were you are coming from talking about how the bomb was needed yes in certain areas i can understand but me as a Japaneses Mexican American, i think we did do wrong. two wrong do not make a right. either way millions and billions of people died of the radiation poisoning or from being tortured by soldiers it was still wrong.some might think it was justified and there is no one to change your mind or your opinion, but i don’t think it was justified.

well lets not forget that just because a historian stated something doesnt mean they right; and to perssit furhter even though the bombing of japan was harsh there still exists the un ignorable truht that total war was well and truly alive in ww2. The so called innocent civillians of japan were in fact working in the very factories that produced the munitions and weapons for the japanese army. So therfore , was a country is at war with another the entire people are atwar with one another, and so you may not like it but war is war and hard descisions have to be made.

i also like totally agre with subjectively biased.

Some objectivity would be much appreciated in this piece of writing.

thanks so much im doing a debate for school
i dont like japanese people they eat rice
one sided arguments work best when ur personally gonna come up wit a defense for the other side

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thanks it is one sided but it gives us half the info that we need to know if the bomb was justified

Japan was already close to surrendering, so the possibility of a longer lasting war and invasion was low at best. And even if I concede the justification of bombing Hiroshima, how can one possibly justify Nagasaki? Its like adding insult to injury times infinity…

Ha, just using this as a point for socials didnt want t be caught for copying

i think i learned more fom the comments than anything else…
but umm some of the things you said were pretty resonable.
thx..
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I think with this subject you have to be carefull when making a comment both sides of this debate are very valid and i dont think the world or the countries involved will ever decide if it was justified or not.And i dont think any side will get rid completily of there guilt for what both sides did.But i Think i am leaning towards the justified side but i dont ,like everyone else,i will ever truly make my mind up.

Yea, i agree with the other kids…
the argument was pretty one-sided.
I’m still not convinced.
You should add some cons in your paper, since the title was “the pros and cons of dropping the bomb.”
I have no idea if it was justified or not though. I don’t think that question will ever go away.

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The economic part is wrong beceause the US has Japan blockaded by ships, not allowing any supplies in or out, so if it became a war of attrition the Us would not have lost its money and supplies faster than a small island with few resources unable to trade, mang gg

sorry, but had to fix a typo xD
on the 7th line of my comment above, it’s supposed to read:

“… they WOULDN’T accept the “unconditional surrender” terms, it is clear that they were still going to … “

which also brings up another argument: if the US had proposed conditional surrender, then japan probably would have been less reluctant to surrender.

anyway, i hope you guys can see my point, and i hope i didn’t offend anyone :]

i agree 100% with daniel, the article is way too biased.
and to ‘the best country on earth’ u should just know that while everyone sucks up to america, noone likes them everyone hates america and their arrogance and pompousness

what the japs did to our soilders was horrrible! they deserved what they got. i only wish it could have been done sooner so the war would have over a lot quicker! and i am totally using this in my essay!

thiss helpeed me so much i dint have a clue what to write. it may be one sided but its the side i need. thanks alot xxx

hey. i think that you are totally right. but im in a social studies class debate and i need to have info that refutes the abomb.

Yes . I truly agree about the passage . Yes , The dropping nof the atomic bomb was justified . And , If the Americans did not drop the bomb , Probably , We would be under the Japanese control .
Thankfully , Everything is fine now !

that was awsome thanks, i can totaly use that for my debate.

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I don\’t know whats more sad seeing people completely ignorant or seeing people completely eating up bullshiit that their government and shiitty education system feeds them.
Japan was about to surrender and America knew this. But America didn\’t want to get blue balls from this bomb they spent years and million of dollars on.
The Americans wanted to know what happens when you drop this thing on humans. So they drop the bomb on hundreds of thousand of innocent people, and the first thing they do when Japan surrenders is send out scientists out to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to collect data of what happened to the cities, the environment, and the people.
And many people say that the A bombs were dropped to get back at the Japanese for Pearl Harbor. I wont even go into the whole did FDR know Pearl Harbor was coming and just ignored the warnings to have an excuse to go to war part. Pearl Harbor was an attack on a military base, war is between soldiers. Hiroshima and Nagasaki two big bombs dropped on innocent civilians. It would be like me killing your mother because you hit me for no reason, now would that be justified.
I\’m also sure that you guys don\’t know that over 60 Japanese cities were napalmed during WWII killing over 80,000 civilians and leaving even more homeless. So do some research and find out how disgustingly immoral and just how much the US broke the laws of war. All I\’m saying is that war is ugly, once its over people will find things that make them \”the good guys\” and find things that make the others \”the bad guys\”

I do agre with the article but there are some things that the author missed. First off, the dropping of the bomb saved the lives of a countless amount of people, even Japanese (even if they said they were going to surrender). If the atomic bomb was not dropped, the war most likely would have dragged on. The power the atomic bomb controlled intimidated all enemies of the allies. Japan was made an example of the absolute destruction that the bomb could have on any enemy city, even after World War II. The bomb saved probably around the same amount of people killed on D-Day. Japan said they were going to surrender, but they didn\’t. If they did not surrender, \”the alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.\” Japan knew what they would be getting into by playing the waiting game and most likely would not have had surrendered as soon as they later said they would have. The American retribution for Pearl Harbor undoubtably contributed to this decision of annihilation nonetheless, it was not done soley for vengeance. The atomic bomb ended the war quick–which saved money for weapons, troops\’ supplies, transportation, etc.–and it saved many people\’s live. The not-so-innocent people of Japan should have surrendered quickly if they did not want to face the beast that was America\’s nuclear annihilator.

“Japan was about to surrender”. That is the silliest thing I’ve ever heard. The Japanese looked at their leaders as gods up until this point, the everyday citizens were ordered and ready to pick up arms and fight forever for their god. The bomb was a necessary in the fact that it made the Japanese question their leader, understand he was not a god, a god wouldn’t of let that happen to the homeland.

If they were ready to surrender, why didn’t they surrender after the first bombing? Common people…they weren’t ready to surrender. Also, yes the nuclear effects are much longer lasting and I don’t think we should turn to it again. But if you factor in the death counts from the bombs, it didn’t even compare to the deaths just from our bombings of Tokyo. So the argument “innocent people dead” well…you could say the same about the Tokyo bombings, but of course, no one ever remembers those. hundreds of thousands of innocents died in those raids, but since it wasn’t a “nuclear” attack, it isn’t a bad thing apparently…

I wasn’t trying to write a report but I’ll stop. I think it was totally justified and I don’t think anyone can say for sure if it saved lives by ending the war early, seems very possible to me. I don’t think the Japanese were ready to surrender.

I think it took something as devastating as the bomb (It took two of them people, one wasn’t enough to convince them) to get them to stand down.

Nuff Said? Of course you can toss a lot of good arguments on the other side, making it sound really good. But just weighing it out, I personally think it was not only justified, but necessary.

I am writing a report on the same exact subject right now except I DO NOT believe dropping the atomic bomb and Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the right decision. I just needed to give a quick shout out to daniel the the disgruntled patriot. Dan you said it right. Ski33 your paper is….how should I say this…pathetic.

If bombing Japan was justified, than 9/11 was MORE than justified, it was needed.

If the US continues sticking its ugly fingers into other nation’s pies, there will be more 9/11s on American soil, I’m sure of that.

You are a heartless person.
A lot of those people who died from the bomb were INNOCENT.
The ecomony? SERIOUSLY?
I rather have a really bad economy than have a bunch of people die.
And for those Americans who died in those tortures, well they got that for getting involved in the war. When you are in war, you could suffer, it’s just part of war. It’s basic stuff.
2 wrongs don’t make a right anyways, like if the japanese kill americans, or the americans kill japanese, both are WRONG.

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It was pretty easy for one man to gather 1,500 japanese harmlessly, so doesn’t that say something of how ready the japanese were for surrender? Even if the japanese military heads had no plan of surrender, without an army, he would be forced to. Most of the japanese fighters were exerted and willing for peaceful surrender Also, the estimated number of 1,000,000 deaths has changed almost every time president truman or any of his advisors talked about it. There is no basis to believe that estimation, and 1,000,000 is highly unlikely, since the japanese were already at a point of surrender. There was no formal meeting between truman and his cabinet before the bombing. There could have been other ways. At least ways that took out less civilians.

And if your still not convinced, google Rape of Nanking or Japanese Death Marches, that should show you the atrocities of the Japanese.

I totally agree with Daniel the disgruntled patriot there… What a skewed article.

You say that the innocent people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki had to have in order for WW2 to have ended? Well, the truth is that Germany and Italy, the two biggest forerunners, had already lost by the time the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. Innocent men, women, and children died as a result; a bomb cannot be targetted only for military personnel. VILLAGES were WIPED OUT.

You also said that 240,000 was nothing. How can you say that? What if YOU were one of the 240,000? Or your family? Your friends? Every life has a value. That bomb just wiped out 240,000 people from the face of the earth cruelly — an inhumane act. You said that these people died quickly without pain. Lie — radiation poisoning is a long-time effect, definitely not painless. People still suffer from birth defects even after WW2.

& How can you say that more people would have died had the bomb not been dropped? How would you know? Weren’t there better ways to resolve this then scarring hundreds of thousands people for the rest of their lives?

The reason they even started the embargo was to try and get Japan to pull out of China. Japan refused, of course, and the rest is history.

way of life was inferior by taking their emperor out of power would be completely humiliating and demeaning. You say that saving as many lives as possible is the best way to go, well, with the Soviet Union already attacking Japan in Manchuria and thousands of Japanese civilian lives already lost because of the fire bombings, was it really necessary to even contemplate fighting in Japan? All we had to do was modify the means of surrender or at least meet with Japanese officials to see how they felt about the situation. But no, Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb, not to beat Japan who wasn\’t even a threat anymore, but to prove to the Soviet Union that we had an extremely powerful weapon at our disposal, which we could use against them if they didn\’t stop spreading into western Europe.

all in all this isn\’t terrible per se, but its so biased that its hard to read.

I am a Vietnam combat vet. I’ve seen the worst of what so called humans can do to each other -and I carry that nightmare to this day. I was put there based on lies-lying is a political force and it was used for dropping the bombs.

So, people that disagree point to the number of people that died due to the bombings. So, let me ask you all this: Which is a lesser of two evils? A few hundred thousand now? Or A few MILLION later? Because that was what would have happened if the invasion of Japan went ahead.

This is a fact: 500,000 purple hearts were made in anticipation of the invasion of Japan, we STILL have about 120,000 of those left.

The battle of Iwo Jima saw nearly the entire Japanese garrison die, only 216 of the about 20,000 strong army was captured, the rest were KIA. USA lost about 25,000 KIA or WIA, which estimated 7000 died.

On this single island the American casualties were greater then the the ENTIRE Allied casualties on storming the beaches on D-Day. Iwo Jima was only 2 km squared. Think about it, this small island had the USA take more casualties then the entire Allied first day of Operation Overlord. What kind of casualties would the Invasion of Japan have? On both the Japanese AND the Allies.

Also, had the nuclear weapons not been dropped and the Japanese had not surrendered Japan could have ended up like the Korean Peninsula.

The unconditional surrender was a neccesity. The Allies learned from history. World War Two was in one way a continuation of World War 1. The opponents had to be defeated totally. Without exception. Because look at Germany: Germany sued for peace while their army was still in French/Belgium lands and not yet pushed back. And for their troubles they got the Treaty of Versaille. This led to resentment and eventual feeling among the German people that they could have won the war and they were back stabed by their government. This feeling was used by the Nazis to gain power, among other things they used anyway.

What Japan wanted was a conditional surrender. Japan should have no say in their surrender terms, and had to be totally and entirely defeated since if they do they may think they could have won also, and another generation or so later you would have another war.

The atomic bombings were horrific, but the couple hundred thousand lives killed by the bombs are nothing compared to what the rest of Japan was being subjected to, the numerous firebombings killed more Japanese then the atomic bombs. For example, the firebombing of Tokyo killed an estimated 100,000 people.

In my opinion Japan should have had its nose shoved into the atrocities that it had commited, the Rape of Nanking, the bio/chem warfare units such as the infamous Unit 731. The entire state of them not acknowledging them and appologizing for those atrocities, unlike Germany, was because they were able to keep their citizens from seeing what was happening.

So you believe killing thousands of innocent people is justified .. what is the world coming to?? .. The atomic bomb should never have been used let alone made. Killing people is never the solution and certainly not innocent people that had nothing to do with the war whatsoever. Imagine seeing on the news that an atomic bomb hit a place where your family and friends lived, would you go “right, well they deserved it” . I’m not saying that what the Japanese people did was justified, but they weren’t the innocent peoples decisions, they were the Governments. And the stupid ‘an eye for an eye’ thing is hypocritical, if you hated so much what the japanese did to the US, imagine what the Japanese people must be thinking, their whole cities wiped out, not just people but their culture and everything that was there. You are the type of people that start wars by thinking ‘its okay to kill even more of their innocent people, if that’s what they did to us” That’s a 3 year old’s mentality.

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The bombing was completely unnecessary and most certainly did not save lives. While the info you put is true, you left out that Japan had planned a surrender. Emperor Hirohito sent an emissary to inform Stalin. The U.S. knew about it, but still somehow took the lives of innocent people. Why? because once the war was over, the U.S. wanted nothing to do with the S.U. and wanted to send a message that they were more powerful than Soviet Russia.

The article was interesting, but the subtitle was inaccurate. The article was very one-sided. You stated that you would have pros and cons of dropping the bomb. You listed only about 1 or 2 cons of dropping the bomb. Almost the entire article was about how it was justified. Most of Japan did not even know about the first bomb until after the second dropped. They were already getting ready to surrender. The only major negotiation Japan originally wanted before it surrendered was to be able to keep Hirohito on the throne. Japan would just have easily surrendered with only one bomb. Also, the statement that 1 million people plus the number that died from the atomic bombs was overexaggerated. Conventional firebombs would have caused as much damage as the atomic bombs, even if more were needed, and they wouldn’t have caused health problems even to this day from the radiation. The cities that were bombed consisted of mostly civilians. They were of very little military importance. Even many of the U.S. generals thought that these bombs were unnecessary, such as general Eisenhower. You did make a very interesting argument for the U.S.’s side in the bombing, and it would be good if you were arguing for the U.S. in a debate, minus the many grammatical errors.

Ok, all of you dissin this paper because it doesnt have any cons listed are wrong, in a debate you never list the other side it looks bad, and is foolish. The people you are speaking aginst can and will turn thy nutrallity around and you will loose…and daniel, remember the wrighter also said”IN MY OPENION”
so yall suck on that. to the writer of the paper thankyou you didexlant and gave me some grate info that i have approved by double cheaking Nuclearweaponarchive.com also holds great amounts of info.

By the way…. You can’t really estimate how many lives or casualties would be lost.. If you do or can… You would know you are sending troops to die. And also you would know an estimate of how many people you are sending to die..

The war was practically over when The U.S bombed Japan. So there was really no reason bomb Japan.

FUKE YOU AGAINST WAR. If you won’t stand behind our soilders, stand in front of them.

thought this would be a good article to cite in my thesis paper but wow its complete garbage once you read the first three paragraphs

Okay, this article was very poorly craft….nevertheless, the mentality of 85% of the posts here is astonishing. People seem to be assuming some things that are simply unassumable:
(1)Japan was ready to surrender. As a few remarked already, that was blatantly not true. What US was able to glean about Japanese culture was that it WOULD NOT ALLOW SURRENDER. Just because we are NOW in a freer and much more connected world does not mean that we were THEN. THEN, the Japanese were coming out of centuries of imperial bushido-based ways of thinking. They weren\\\’t on Usenet or Twitter chatting it up with people from around the world. People were subjects to an emperor whom them believed was a physical incarnation of God. The Japanese culture allowed for them to die before they ought ever to be shamed by surrender or defeat.
(2)I am going to make a very small leap to say that NOT A SINGLE PERSON POSTING HERE has ever been in true all-out war. I don\\\’t mean to belittle the men and women who have fought and continue to fight and die on my behalf for the US, but WWII was the last true \\\”war\\\” this country has been in. We have been in many \\\”wars\\\” over the past fifty years that took quite a toll on us; again, I am NOT discounting these endeavors. WWII was just truly, the \\\”last stand\\\” for our survival — which is what I am referring to…that situation where everyone looks around and says \\\”wholly fsck, if we don\\\’t do something, we are fscking DEAD.\\\” This does not mean that no one\\\’s opinion is valuable, but I think that no one is looking at this from the perspective of where Americans were in 1945. They had been obliterated by almost 5 years of fully-mobilized war. That meant that people who were not drafted into the service stayed home and worked in factories that were producing the things necessary to keep their brothers and cousins and friends who WERE OVERSEAS alive. The losses we had taken were substantial, and victory was NOT assured. We realized the Japanese would NOT stop ever, and it was gonna take every last thing we had to achieve victory. This was not happy times were we just randomly decided to drop a bomb on civilians. Please everyone try to really imagine this…you don\\\’t know the Japanese will ever surrender, you don\\\’t know that TVs will be in every home and people will be on the friggin internet in a time of peace….for all you know, THIS IS IT.
(3)We were about to be broken. The author of the article harps on how much the war had cost. Economics should not play a factor into a war and the decisions in it, I agree. However, the country was broke from fighting. Money is the way to get supplies, fuel, food. Is everyone forgetting we just came out of the Great Depression? Our wherewithal to continue fighting successfully was dwindling, which meant bad things would eventually start to happen. The war HAD TO END soon, otherwise, a protracted fight might obliterate us from within.
(4)We cannot play god here. This is not a video game or a sci fi movie. The US did not know that Japan was ready to surrender (and they weren\\\’t, btw….hence why we had to drop TWO bombs…). For all we knew, they might never surrender. We also did not know what tricks THEY may have had up their sleeve. Victory WAS NOT assured for us! I can\\\’t say this enough. If we knew the way it was going to end, then maybe we could have taken a different approach. But no one knew.
(5)Do you really think that Japan would have hesitated use nuclear arms on us? \\\”Two wrongs don\\\’t make a right.\\\” I agree in theory, but how did we not know that Japan may have a similar weapon (that is all it was, at that time…another kind of weapon). We were then taking the lives of OUR citizens at hand and discounting them by leaving them open to whatever Japan had up its sleeve.
(6)Had we never used the A-Bomb on Japan and realized the horrors of nuclear weaponry, it may not have been WE who were first to use it. Some country somewhere was going to use a nuke at some point. It was inevitable, and it could have been quite devastating had an H-bomb or something similar been deployed anywhere. I shudder at that thought.

I apologize for rambling a bit, I didn\\\’t intend to make an essay of this. It just seems that blaming America for everything seems to be the new black. Everyone want to seems chic and in by blaming them for every bad thing that has happened since Jamestown. American is not perfect. There are things I definitely disagree with, and things that are atrocious. That said, we are not automatically wrong about everything.

I am not a warmonger, I detest it. I pray we never see anything like WWII till the end of time I also pray that nuclear weapons are NEVER deployed again. Destroying civilians is abhorrent; unfortunately, first-world countries are the only ones who give a lick. The amount we spend in training and precision weaponry is a testament to our commitment to that principle. Given the above, I just hope that some minds can be changed to understand the reason we did what we did…that we are not MONSTERS for having used the A-bomb. Our unwillingness to use it again ought to be proof of that.

Okay, this article was very poorly craft….nevertheless, the mentality of 85% of the posts here is astonishing. People seem to be assuming some things that are simply unassumable:
(1)Japan was ready to surrender. As a few remarked already, that was blatantly not true. What US was able to glean about Japanese culture was that it WOULD NOT ALLOW SURRENDER. Just because we are NOW in a freer and much more connected world does not mean that we were THEN. THEN, the Japanese were coming out of centuries of imperial bushido-based ways of thinking. They weren\’t on Usenet or Twitter chatting it up with people from around the world. People were subjects to an emperor whom them believed was a physical incarnation of God. The Japanese culture allowed for them to die before they ought ever to be shamed by surrender or defeat.
(2)I am going to make a very small leap to say that NOT A SINGLE PERSON POSTING HERE has ever been in true all-out war. I don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t mean to belittle the men and women who have fought and continue to fight and die on my behalf for the US, but WWII was the last true \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”war\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” this country has been in. We have been in many \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”wars\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” over the past fifty years that took quite a toll on us; again, I am NOT discounting these endeavors. WWII was just truly, the \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”last stand\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” for our survival — which is what I am referring to…that situation where everyone looks around and says \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”wholly fsck, if we don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t do something, we are fscking DEAD.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” This does not mean that no one\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s opinion is valuable, but I think that no one is looking at this from the perspective of where Americans were in 1945. They had been obliterated by almost 5 years of fully-mobilized war. That meant that people who were not drafted into the service stayed home and worked in factories that were producing the things necessary to keep their brothers and cousins and friends who WERE OVERSEAS alive. The losses we had taken were substantial, and victory was NOT assured. We realized the Japanese would NOT stop ever, and it was gonna take every last thing we had to achieve victory. This was not happy times were we just randomly decided to drop a bomb on civilians. Please everyone try to really imagine this…you don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t know the Japanese will ever surrender, you don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t know that TVs will be in every home and people will be on the friggin internet in a time of peace….for all you know, THIS IS IT.
(3)We were about to be broken. The author of the article harps on how much the war had cost. Economics should not play a factor into a war and the decisions in it, I agree. However, the country was broke from fighting. Money is the way to get supplies, fuel, food. Is everyone forgetting we just came out of the Great Depression? Our wherewithal to continue fighting successfully was dwindling, which meant bad things would eventually start to happen. The war HAD TO END soon, otherwise, a protracted fight might obliterate us from within.
(4)We cannot play god here. This is not a video game or a sci fi movie. The US did not know that Japan was ready to surrender (and they weren\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t, btw….hence why we had to drop TWO bombs…). For all we knew, they might never surrender. We also did not know what tricks THEY may have had up their sleeve. Victory WAS NOT assured for us! I can\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t say this enough. If we knew the way it was going to end, then maybe we could have taken a different approach. But no one knew.
(5)Do you really think that Japan would have hesitated use nuclear arms on us? \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”Two wrongs don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t make a right.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” I agree in theory, but how did we not know that Japan may have a similar weapon (that is all it was, at that time…another kind of weapon). We were then taking the lives of OUR citizens at hand and discounting them by leaving them open to whatever Japan had up its sleeve.
(6)Had we never used the A-Bomb on Japan and realized the horrors of nuclear weaponry, it may not have been WE who were first to use it. Some country somewhere was going to use a nuke at some point. It was inevitable, and it could have been quite devastating had an H-bomb or something similar been deployed anywhere. I shudder at that thought.

I apologize for rambling a bit, I didn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t intend to make an essay of this. It just seems that blaming America for everything seems to be the new black. Everyone want to seems chic and in by blaming them for every bad thing that has happened since Jamestown. American is not perfect. There are things I definitely disagree with, and things that are atrocious. That said, we are not automatically wrong about everything.

I am not a warmonger, I detest it. I pray we never see anything like WWII till the end of time I also pray that nuclear weapons are NEVER deployed again. Destroying civilians is abhorrent; unfortunately, first-world countries are the only ones who give a lick. The amount we spend in training and precision weaponry is a testament to our commitment to that principle. Given the above, I just hope that some minds can be changed to understand the reason we did what we did…that we are not MONSTERS for having used the A-bomb. Our unwillingness to use it again ought to be proof of that.

Okay, this article was very poorly craft….nevertheless, the mentality of 85% of the posts here is astonishing. People seem to be assuming some things that are simply unassumable:
(1)Japan was ready to surrender. As a few remarked already, that was blatantly not true. What US was able to glean about Japanese culture was that it WOULD NOT ALLOW SURRENDER. Just because we are NOW in a freer and much more connected world does not mean that we were THEN. THEN, the Japanese were coming out of centuries of imperial bushido-based ways of thinking. They werent on Usenet or Twitter chatting it up with people from around the world. People were subjects to an emperor whom them believed was a physical incarnation of God. The Japanese culture allowed for them to die before they ought ever to be shamed by surrender or defeat.
(2)I am going to make a very small leap to say that NOT A SINGLE PERSON POSTING HERE has ever been in true all-out war. I don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t mean to belittle the men and women who have fought and continue to fight and die on my behalf for the US, but WWII was the last true \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”war\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” this country has been in. We have been in many \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”wars\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” over the past fifty years that took quite a toll on us; again, I am NOT discounting these endeavors. WWII was just truly, the \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”last stand\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” for our survival — which is what I am referring to…that situation where everyone looks around and says \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”wholly fsck, if we don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t do something, we are fscking DEAD.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” This does not mean that no one\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s opinion is valuable, but I think that no one is looking at this from the perspective of where Americans were in 1945. They had been obliterated by almost 5 years of fully-mobilized war. That meant that people who were not drafted into the service stayed home and worked in factories that were producing the things necessary to keep their brothers and cousins and friends who WERE OVERSEAS alive. The losses we had taken were substantial, and victory was NOT assured. We realized the Japanese would NOT stop ever, and it was gonna take every last thing we had to achieve victory. This was not happy times were we just randomly decided to drop a bomb on civilians. Please everyone try to really imagine this…you don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t know the Japanese will ever surrender, you don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t know that TVs will be in every home and people will be on the friggin internet in a time of peace….for all you know, THIS IS IT.
(3)We were about to be broken. The author of the article harps on how much the war had cost. Economics should not play a factor into a war and the decisions in it, I agree. However, the country was broke from fighting. Money is the way to get supplies, fuel, food. Is everyone forgetting we just came out of the Great Depression? Our wherewithal to continue fighting successfully was dwindling, which meant bad things would eventually start to happen. The war HAD TO END soon, otherwise, a protracted fight might obliterate us from within.
(4)We cannot play god here. This is not a video game or a sci fi movie. The US did not know that Japan was ready to surrender (and they weren\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t, btw….hence why we had to drop TWO bombs…). For all we knew, they might never surrender. We also did not know what tricks THEY may have had up their sleeve. Victory WAS NOT assured for us! I can\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t say this enough. If we knew the way it was going to end, then maybe we could have taken a different approach. But no one knew.
(5)Do you really think that Japan would have hesitated use nuclear arms on us? \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”Two wrongs don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t make a right.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” I agree in theory, but how did we not know that Japan may have a similar weapon (that is all it was, at that time…another kind of weapon). We were then taking the lives of OUR citizens at hand and discounting them by leaving them open to whatever Japan had up its sleeve.
(6)Had we never used the A-Bomb on Japan and realized the horrors of nuclear weaponry, it may not have been WE who were first to use it. Some country somewhere was going to use a nuke at some point. It was inevitable, and it could have been quite devastating had an H-bomb or something similar been deployed anywhere. I shudder at that thought.

I apologize for rambling a bit, I didn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t intend to make an essay of this. It just seems that blaming America for everything seems to be the new black. Everyone want to seems chic and in by blaming them for every bad thing that has happened since Jamestown. American is not perfect. There are things I definitely disagree with, and things that are atrocious. That said, we are not automatically wrong about everything.

I am not a warmonger, I detest it. I pray we never see anything like WWII till the end of time I also pray that nuclear weapons are NEVER deployed again. Destroying civilians is abhorrent; unfortunately, first-world countries are the only ones who give a lick. The amount we spend in training and precision weaponry is a testament to our commitment to that principle. Given the above, I just hope that some minds can be changed to understand the reason we did what we did…that we are not MONSTERS for having used the A-bomb. Our unwillingness to use it again ought to be proof of that.

Okay, this article was very poorly craft….nevertheless, the mentality of 85% of the posts here is astonishing. People seem to be assuming some things that are simply unassumable:
(1)Japan was ready to surrender. As a few remarked already, that was blatantly not true. What US was able to glean about Japanese culture was that it WOULD NOT ALLOW SURRENDER. Just because we are NOW in a freer and much more connected world does not mean that we were THEN. THEN, the Japanese were coming out of centuries of imperial bushido-based ways of thinking. They werent on Usenet or Twitter chatting it up with people from around the world. People were subjects to an emperor whom them believed was a physical incarnation of God. The Japanese culture allowed for them to die before they ought ever to be shamed by surrender or defeat.
(2)I am going to make a very small leap to say that NOT A SINGLE PERSON POSTING HERE has ever been in true all-out war. I don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t mean to belittle the men and women who have fought and continue to fight and die on my behalf for the US, but WWII was the last true \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”war\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” this country has been in. We have been in many \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”wars\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” over the past fifty years that took quite a toll on us; again, I am NOT discounting these endeavors. WWII was just truly, the \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”last stand\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” for our survival — which is what I am referring to…that situation where everyone looks around and says \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”wholly fsck, if we don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t do something, we are fscking DEAD.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” This does not mean that no one\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s opinion is valuable, but I think that no one is looking at this from the perspective of where Americans were in 1945. They had been obliterated by almost 5 years of fully-mobilized war. That meant that people who were not drafted into the service stayed home and worked in factories that were producing the things necessary to keep their brothers and cousins and friends who WERE OVERSEAS alive. The losses we had taken were substantial, and victory was NOT assured. We realized the Japanese would NOT stop ever, and it was gonna take every last thing we had to achieve victory. This was not happy times were we just randomly decided to drop a bomb on civilians. Please everyone try to really imagine this…you don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t know the Japanese will ever surrender, you don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t know that TVs will be in every home and people will be on the friggin internet in a time of peace….for all you know, THIS IS IT.
(3)We were about to be broken. The author of the article harps on how much the war had cost. Economics should not play a factor into a war and the decisions in it, I agree. However, the country was broke from fighting. Money is the way to get supplies, fuel, food. Is everyone forgetting we just came out of the Great Depression? Our wherewithal to continue fighting successfully was dwindling, which meant bad things would eventually start to happen. The war HAD TO END soon, otherwise, a protracted fight might obliterate us from within.
(4)We cannot play god here. This is not a video game or a sci fi movie. The US did not know that Japan was ready to surrender (and they weren\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t, btw….hence why we had to drop TWO bombs…). For all we knew, they might never surrender. We also did not know what tricks THEY may have had up their sleeve. Victory WAS NOT assured for us! I can\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t say this enough. If we knew the way it was going to end, then maybe we could have taken a different approach. But no one knew.
(5)Do you really think that Japan would have hesitated use nuclear arms on us? \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\”Two wrongs don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t make a right.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\” I agree in theory, but how did we not know that Japan may have a similar weapon (that is all it was, at that time…another kind of weapon). We were then taking the lives of OUR citizens at hand and discounting them by leaving them open to whatever Japan had up its sleeve.
(6)Had we never used the A-Bomb on Japan and realized the horrors of nuclear weaponry, it may not have been WE who were first to use it. Some country somewhere was going to use a nuke at some point. It was inevitable, and it could have been quite devastating had an H-bomb or something similar been deployed anywhere. I shudder at that thought.

I apologize for rambling a bit, I didn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t intend to make an essay of this. It just seems that blaming America for everything seems to be the new black. Everyone want to seems chic and in by blaming them for every bad thing that has happened since Jamestown. American is not perfect. There are things I definitely disagree with, and things that are atrocious. That said, we are not automatically wrong about everything.

I am not a warmonger, I detest it. I pray we never see anything like WWII till the end of time I also pray that nuclear weapons are NEVER deployed again. Destroying civilians is abhorrent; unfortunately, first-world countries are the only ones who give a lick. The amount we spend in training and precision weaponry is a testament to our commitment to that principle. Given the above, I just hope that some minds can be changed to understand the reason we did what we did…that we are not MONSTERS for having used the A-bomb. Our unwillingness to use it again ought to be proof of that.

I’m really sorry all for the multiple posts. I kept getting a server error, and then all the sudden when I refreshed there were 7 of them. Sorry again.

I still cannot seem to bring myself to believe that use of the atomic bomb was ABSOLUTELY necessary. However, tedbell has definitely brought up some wonderful points that have got me thinking. Very well said!

Daniel
On March 13, 2008 at 10:17 pm

This comment is in response to the fool above, \’DANIEL\’ March 13, 2008 at 10:17 PM. This idiot is more concerned with the lives of the enemy. He was not there therefore it is so easy to value their lives. He would have perferred the US lose an estimated 1,000,000 American and Allied lives. Hey, idiot, the Japanese bombed us at Pearl Harbor. Does that ring a bell? Second, it was an unprovoke attack killing about 3,000 Americans. Third, when in war the principle of morality is out of the equation. A bomb is a bomb is a bomb. The only exception here is that is was so final, so devastating that it knock their balls right off. Okay, it\’s done and good for Truman having the balls do approve it. Fourth, Daniel, now what is your problem with that?

This is all fake!!!

I really think that this is a wonderful article, and it makes sense fully, beautifully written. Very moving, I must say!
Though, it’s very one sided.
The Japanese felt the same pains we did. Just because we’re Americans, it doesn’t make our lives and more important.
When we went over to Japan, it was only soldiers, no innocent women, no children, not a single man who thought the whole war should have, and could have, been avoided. We killed thousands of people who probably didn’t even know what to think about the war. For all we know, a majority of the people we killed could have agreed with us on the means of the war.
I guess I’m trying to say; Remember to think about the pains of others as well. I mean, we did bomb Nagasaki for no reason other than the fact that the Japanese were taking too long to surrender. That was uncalled for.
Though, your article has made me reconsider my true hate for the fact we dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima. It makes this subject much clearer.

ok. for one, we only developed the bomb 1 month before it was used. we didn’t know what the consequences would be. and i agree with daniel. just b/c the gov. says something like it saved more than it killed doesn’t mean its true. the gov. lies all the time.
so just remember that many innocent people were killed.

Hey son of satin for one ur not the son of satin ur probaly some emo kid that sits in his room eating sun block and cutting ur self so shut ur damn mouth u faggot.

for one thing i want to get straight is that if {the japs wanted us out of the war then why did they attack us if they didn\’t want us in the war} the US doesnt go to war unless we are attacked or we think we are going to be attacked!!! another thing is the japs thought they could seperate the united states by taking out our navy in PEARL HARBOR!!! who in the world is stupid enough to attack us now that (911) hapand i think by now every one in the world knows that if they (ATTACK us we WILL go to WAR). it doesnt matter who it is we will ATTACK them

lol what illiterate person wrote this article

@juicy piglet….lol i love that nickname XD

some of yall crazy, tho….smh

Japan was the villian here it was because of their unecessary attacks in china and everywhere. can you plz tell me one reason why Japan started the war wanna know why becasue they were greedy and selfish and wanted evrything so they wouldn’t need anyone and they tried to accomplish this by killing many people and they want to argue about how they got bombed and how it was bad well too bad you didn’t think about it before you went on a rampage to kill every people in every pacific islands for thier resources i for one think they throughly deserved to get bombed hell i wouldn’t mind dropping 2 or even more atmic bomb on those selfish greedy bastards. i hope everyone who died during those attck go to hell

Actually, Patriot, they did it mainly to establish their reign over the south-east asian area in their “Co-Prosperity Sphere” which was basically a big asian empire. And I agree, they deserved it, they killed more people than hitler, their kills numbered in the tens of millions.

It was absolutely not justified, any non-retard can see that.
But everyone justifying this surely wouldn’t mind if atomic bombs were dropped on the US? Since the US has commited attrocities too? If Iraq dropped several on the US, to stop the war and saving countless lives?
The same reason Japan “deserved” it, the US “deserves” it too, at least according to the ones justifying this heinous war crime (if they’re not hypocrites with double standards that is).

What is wrong with you people? Half you seem to be stuck in Grade 3. Also, the bombing was entirely justified. Have any of those illiterate idiots who think the bombing was not justified know anything about Japans culture back in those days? Ever heard of Bushido? The Japanese had made it CRYSTAL clear they were going to fight to the last man, woman, child going so far as to arm and train civilians to fight with anything that could be used as a weapon. Okinawa is a very good example for this. Previous incursions upon Japan had made it clear how many casualties the US would suffer if they invaded Japan. US armed forces would lose .5 to 1 million troops while Japan would suffer about 5 million casualties. People also lament all those lives lost in the bombing. I don\’t see any of them bringing up the conventional fire-bombing of Tokyo which killed more people than one atom bomb. While I do see both sides of this argument it cannot be refuted that there was NO OTHER OPTION for the US to take that would cause minimal casualties. It is all a matter of the greater good and while that sounds bad there truly is no other option. The 250 000 civilians or so who died in the bombing did not die in vain, they saved the lives of millions of US soldiers and Japanese civilians.