The bombs made sure there were no more Okinawas....I'll take that trade-off any day.
I’ve never quite understood the obsession with the A-bomb attacks.
We were already utterly destroying Japanese cities with fire bomb attacks, with loss of life in single attacks equivalent to or even higher than when the A-bombs were used.
The A-bombs were harbingers of greater terrors to come, but their use at the time provided no killing power that wasn’t perfectly available via other means.
It there really any moral difference between killing 100,000 people with tens of thousands of bombs dropped by 1000 planes, or using a single Bomb dropped by a single plane?
Had the USA funneled the resources used for the A-bomb into building more planes, ships, etc. they could have been used to kill a lot more people than with the few Bombs it had on hand by the end of the war.