Oh, I don't disagree with you (although I do believe we went too far at Hiroshima).
Please read this when you have time and think again. It's a few years old and the picture links are broken but it gets the point across, we had to do it. Just like now with our fight against the muslim religion, we need to beat them to oblivion. It's either us or them.
The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Invasion of Japan - Operation Olympic(11/1/1945) - Aug. 15th, 2003
Only a few know that Japan was semi-independently of Germany developing its own A-bomb up until Hiroshima. It developments in Northeastern China and northern Korea. Much of the Soviet initial knowhow of nuclear technologies which produced their first A-bomb in 1949 came from Japanese results they looted at the end of WWII.
It was clear that Japan would not hesitate to drop the A-bombs in Hawaii or San Francisco had it had the bomb and the means to drop it. So all the harpings from the the Japanese far-right (they do exist on the margins of Japanese society) are really revisionist history.