Whether they were justified or not is really about guess work. Was Japan about to surrender or were they just talking to try to draw things out? If we were forced to launch a land invasion of Japan, how many lives would that cost? Would it have costed more lives than the bomb? And if Russia beat us to it, whose to say Stalin wouldn't have used it to build another Soviet satellite state? And how much did we really know about how damaging the bomb would be? Did we under estimate how damaging it would have been?
That being said, I'm just glad I wasn't the one responsible for making that decision. I'm not sure what my choice would have been. Whether or not I would have made that choice, I can understand the thinking that went into it. Hindsight is always 20/20, but when you're looking at dropping the bomb as an event that hasn't happened yet, it's a more difficult choice to make.
That being said, I'm just glad I wasn't the one responsible for making that decision. I'm not sure what my choice would have been. Whether or not I would have made that choice, I can understand the thinking that went into it. Hindsight is always 20/20, but when you're looking at dropping the bomb as an event that hasn't happened yet, it's a more difficult choice to make.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
