No one ever thought it was “right” - only that it was necessary.
japan was not going to give up, and attacking their mainland would have cost hundreds of thousands of lives (on both sides)
that’s a fact.
The Battle Of Okinawa killed more than both a-bombs combined.
Sorry, back then we DID think it was right to take out the bastards who bombed Pearl Harbor, killed and maimed our soldiers in captivity, treated missionaries like animals and, in general, weren’t fit to live. The japanese people were fanatics.
Back then we knew the difference between right and wrong. Today’s wimps think the world is all shades of gray. Pun intended.
[ japan was not going to give up, and attacking their mainland would have cost hundreds of thousands of lives (on both sides) ]
Not to mention all the millions of japanese civilians that would be killed in numerous firebombings that would have continued.
As well as young boys and eventually women being pressed into service to protect the main island...
It was a demoralizing blow that ended it quickly and saved many lives on both sides because they had never seen such a weapon before and they put 2 and 2 together, if the Americans can drop thousands of regular bombs, but only one bomb does THIS MUCH DAMAGE, what happens when the Americans start dropping HUNDREDS of the city destroying bombs????
That’s a meaningless statement. If it wasn’t right, then it was evil, and nothing evil can be necessary.
If you say an action was necessary, then you are saying it was right.