[Secret Agent Man]

Nope.

Next question.

[logi_cal869]

This is one of my follow-on 12 questions (to the initial 3) to ascertain if the subject is suffering the true pandemic: Stupid.

A wrong answer to any one of the 12 - including this one - is, well, bad.

[Tijeras_Slim]

LeMay had firebombed over 30% of the area of Japanese cities to ash, towns were being shelled from just offshore, and fighters were strafing all targets of opportunity. They would have been ground down completely at some point. If the shock of the bombs was the final straw, so much the better;

[ClearCase_guy]

Dropping the bombs saved over a million lives — most of them Japanese, but plenty of American lives were saved too. It was a humanitarian act. And, no, I don’t accept the idea that Russia was about the beat Japan for us and make our invasion of the home islands unnecessary.

[Secret Agent Man]

The bombings were necessary, not horrific.

I mean tokyo was bombed conventionally prior and more than 100000 people died that way.

We dropped 2 (small, now) nukes and they still were not going to surrender.

There are a lot of Americans living today thanks to not having to invade and get a surrender that way. Same with the Japanese.

[MCF]

Yes! It would have been much more humane to fire bomb there cities to ashes. /s

[mfish13]

Aw, geez, not this Sh** again.

[jjotto]

Yet another dope who insists on a definition of being morally superior means a nation is obligated to commit suicide or least offer endless human sacrifice.

[escapefromboston]

No

[smokingfrog]

Nah

[immadashell]

If Nazi Germany successfully developed the bomb before the U.S. they would have used it on the Allies.

[Night Hides Not]

In advance of the land invasion of Japan, the War Department placed an order for 500,000 Purple Hearts. That supply has yet to be exhausted.

My father was a 17 YO sailor in training for the invasion. I have my selfish reasons for being in favor of the bombs used to end the war.

[USAF1985]

Rhetorical question…NO

[redcatcherb412]

Gee I don’t know...
was Japan evil for expanding what was a regional European conflict into a general worldwide war?

[2nd Amendment]

The bomb gave me my wife and children. My late father in law was slated to be among the first to invade the mainland

[ryderann]

Many of us seniors remember the Japan of the 30s and 40s. It’s too bad the A-bomb took so long to be developed.

[Racketeer]

You damned right it was evil. War is evil. If we have more evil in war we have less war.

[South Dakota]

Truman explained to the Japanese armies in China that there would be nothing to come home too if they fought on

[skepsel]

The bomb code names were Little Boy and Fat Man, not Fat Boy.

[Redleg Duke]

Was Japan evil to attack Pearl Harbor?

It’s called “war”, not “pillow fight”!