| I do not agree with that it was nessesary, i mean there are always an other option. The japanese did not know the US had that kind of fire power, so a meare demonstration might have been enough to push the already pressured japanese to give up. And the war would have ended because of the russians anyway.
Besides, i think it is a morally indefensible to target civilians with a weapon such as the atomic bomb. Approx. 140.000 civilians died by the first bomb's primary effects. Almost half of those did not die instantly but suffered hell on earth their last moments in life.
If an other country had used a atomic bomb against the US it would without doubt be classified as a crime against humanity. |