Dropping the bomb was the right thing to do. The Japanese are crazy and will do whatever their superiors ordered them to. Just look at what went into the mindset of the kamikaze pilots. Best educated elite university graduates were chosen. Yet we’re the bad guys. Go figure.
Yeah one of my hs teachers was a chaplain who survived the Bataan Death March, so I learned a bit about the Japanese.
Fact is, a lot of the people who’ve decried the bombing of Japan wouldn’t be here today if Operation Downfall had gone into effect. My own grandfather who served in Europe had been assigned to jungle training shortly before Japan’s surrender.