[Scythian]

No, it was morally wrong, think about it. Rather than fight thier army we killed thier women and children. I'm a hard core conservative but dropping atomic bombs on cities full of civilians so men don't have to fight is evil, in fact, it is what the terrorists are doing today.

I would like to take this futher and pose this question.

Obviously Al-Dufus cannot mount an army that can challenge ours, but they could possibly kill millions of civilians, destroy our economy and possibly force us to surrender, or render it such that it doesn't matter whether we surrender or not. No, dropping the A-Bomb was wrong. If you cannot defeat an enemy you do not kill tens of thousands of women and children to force them to surrender. And how do you know if you can defeat an enemy until you've tried, all was not lost when we droppped them bomb

Flame on ...

[tanknetter]

Obviously Al-Dufus cannot mount an army that can challenge ours, but they could possibly kill millions of civilians, destroy our economy and possibly force us to surrender, or render it such that it doesn't matter whether we surrender or not. No, dropping the A-Bomb was wrong. If you cannot defeat an enemy you do not kill tens of thousands of women and children to force them to surrender. And how do you know if you can defeat an enemy until you've tried, all was not lost when we droppped them bomb

No need to flame. One only needs to point out what had happened on Okinawa (mass suicide, and murder of Japanese civillians by Japanese soldiers as a way to avoid the "dishonor" of surrender) a few short months before to show that the very basis for your belief is wrong.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki allowed Japan to surrender while "saving face" (an incredibly important component of their national culture). Even the largest estimates, which have around 350,000 dying as a result of the attacks, pale in comparison to what would have happened to the Japanese public (including women and children) when mass starvation set in that winter.

And again, that isn't counting what was happening to the Chinese and other Asians who were still dealing with the 1 million + Japanese soldiers on the mainland (200,000 dead per month).

[colorado tanker]

No, dropping the A-Bomb was wrong. If you cannot defeat an enemy you do not kill tens of thousands of women and children to force them to surrender. And how do you know if you can defeat an enemy until you've tried, all was not lost when we droppped them bomb

You don't know what you're talking about. We demonstrated we could defeat the Japanese on their own soil at Okinawa and Iwo, but only at an incredible cost in American lives, and even greater loss of Japanese lives, both military and civilian. So, "them" bombs saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives, mostly Japanese.