The “America was wrong to nuke Japan” crowd doesn’t seem to get it.
It took 2 nukes to get the Japanese attention, one wasn’t enough.
Even then when the emperor announced surrender, the Japanese military had to fight against other Japanese military because they had no intention of quitting.
I’ve read where they were expecting 1 million allied casualties with an invasion and possibly up to half of the Japanese population.
A lot of the America was wrong crowd are just young and ignorant due to revisionist history and the annual articles like this one. Japanese atrocities against most of anyone non-Japanese civilians, Australian POWs, British POWs, American POWs showed their total lack of honor and their belief they were the superior race. I guess it was racist of the US to kick their racist butts. There will be a few more days of this BS. This crowd won’t say a word on December 7th. But next August it will be the same bunch with the same BS. I missed it last year because I was on vacation and out of the country. The internment crowd are really amusing. There is no connection to the A-Bombs but it helps perpetrate the racist myth. The biggest racist in WWII were the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Russians who controlled the Soviet Party.