So does that justify dropping the a-bomb on civilians? Unfortunately, yes. When the Allies found themselves in a war against two foes who had murdered millions of innocents and would gladly murder many millions more, their hearts became hardened. I would think that would be the natural result of any people engaged in a war with ruthless enemies. Kill or be killed.
How could the leaders of America justify one hundred thousand more dead servicemen because they invaded Japan (and killed many more enemy civilians than died from the atomic blasts) instead of dropping the bombs?
Again, the Allies found themselves in war against foes who wanted to annihilate them. Their response had to be as equally or more ruthless.
The U.S. killed more civilians in the firebombing of Tokyo than in the attacks on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. But nobody condemns them for that.
Just read Richard Frank’s book “Downfall”, it covers the last several months of the Pacific War and goes into detail everything. We had to drop the Bomb.
One wasn’t enough. It took two.
There had to be a second bombing before they gave up, so the first Atomic bomb didn’t do the job either.
EVERY year, in early August, we get the same silliness.
It no longer matters, but the Japanese were training mothers and housewives the proper way to attack machine gun nests using broomsticks. The atom bomb saved a couple million Japanese lives atop all those U.S. Lives which is what mattered in those days.
Hiroshima was just the cherry on top. The fire bombings by the B-29’s was the real barbeque. It was pretty amazing the Japs did not give up after the amount of napalm dropped on their cities.
Wow! Even the idiots over at the DUmp agree that the a-bomb saved countless lives! I’ll be d(a&*med!
What goes unsaid in these discussions is the politically IMPOSSIBLE position that deciding NOT to use the atomic bomb would have put President Truman in at the time.
Just how do his critics think the American public of the day would have reacted when they found out that the President had deliberately decided NOT to use the fantastically expensive and possibly war winning atomic bomb out of some elevated sense of humanity?
Just how do his critics think the American public of the day would have reacted when they found out that the President had deliberately chosen to have the American people endure the million or more US killed/wounded/missing needed to reduce the Japanese home islands through conventional land warfare?
The atom bombs NIP the JAPS in the nick of time.