They most likely saved millions of Japanese lives overall considering how much of a Massacre we would have carried out with a full invasion, plus the suicidal warriors. Etc.
We did some firebombing against Japan with devastating effect, and prior to an invasion, we would have razed most of the country that way before mopping up. The Japs (as they were then called) undoubtedly would have lost more than the total of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Would it have been more humane to be incinerated than to be nmuked?
SO true. The BEST thing that happened to Japan is that we occupied them after the war. We were told by locals that when they came in the company of American soldiers they felt safe as their own were raping and killing without guilt as the religion of peace does today worldwide.
We were in Hiroshima on the anniversary of the bomb and being blonde, I could have had a sign “I am American and Texan”....little children came up to us with smiles and said peace to you and thanks for all you did for us!!! It was humbling. So sad many lost their lives and had lives with side effects of the radiation...but they blew away the horrors of war and brought the people to know peace.
Same thing with my husband’s father who was in WWII. Whenever they came into contact with families in Europe where we’d just bombed days before, the women and children knew they were not going to be harmed farther!!!
Also, when we were in Germany in 2004, we were thanked by young men who said that we gave so many lives for peace. Now...that is gone in Germany...but they know what brings it back.
THANK GOD for President TRUMP and his wife Melania!!! Character means more than riches and they know this!!
The invasion of Okinawa alone killed more Japanese civilians than both bombs. By every credible estimate, the bombs saved millions of Japanese civilians. The Japanese government was training even women and children to fight with sharp sticks. An invasion would have been a bloodbath of unimaginable proportions for the Japanese, the Japanese government was engineering it to be so.
These people are ignorant and stupid.