I always hear so many people condemn the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to this day, I do not understand it.Originally Posted by Jyson
1st: Just as many people died just from one night of fire bombing Tokyo, yet no one mentions that. I'd rather get nuked any day than be in a fire bombing.
2nd: Bombing those two cities is what finally made Japan consider ending the war. Even after bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan still didn't want to surrender. The emperor very reluctantly decided to do it and if it wasn't for a very odd chain of events, he was about to be overthrown and the war would of have continued.
Dropping those bombs saved hundreds of thousands of American soldier's lives, as well as hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Japanese lives that would have otherwise fought to the death or just committed suicide.
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