[Secret Agent Man]

Best thing we could have done to end things quickly with least lives lost on both sides.

[ClearCase_guy]

Greatest humanitarian act in history.

[Honorary Serb]

Yep!!!!

And thank God that Truman was our President, not Wallace!!!!

[dfwgator]

Also saved Japan from being divided, like Korea, and with it, most likely a Civil War.

[Shark24]

Ok, time for my every 5 year post from experience. While stationed in South Korea in 1972 and talking with an elderly Korean man that had been held as a laborer in Japan, I asked about the war and the discussion led to the two atomic bombs. He asked me “why did you stop at two?” Not my position but an interesting perspective.

[Don Corleone]

Best thing we could have done to end things quickly with least lives lost on both sides.

"In war there is no substitute for victory"

[A Navy Vet]

"Best thing we could have done to end things quickly with least lives lost on both sides."

Yup, after my infantry Father worked his way to Germany and killed the remaining Nazis, he was destined for the Pacific. EVERYONE in the world knew that Japan would fight an invasion to the last child. That was fact before the first nuke, it was still obvious before the second nuke. I call it a mercy killing for both sides.