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Originally Posted by YukisUke
I admit you have a valid point, but I would rather that than to have dropped a bomb on innocent civilians. What would you have suggested if you were in that time period? Cause i'm at a lost.  |
Exactly what was done, drop the bombs.
If we had many atomic bombs, instead of just the 2 left after the test bomb in New Mexico, I'd say go ahead and give a demonstration offshore, and if/when that didn't work, bomb the cities. and military centers.
But with only 2 bombs and many months until we could build more, and knowing how willing the Japanese were to fight to the death, I say that as terrible as it was, we did the best thing to end the war as quickly and with as few lives lost as possible.
Plus, IMO the lessons learned at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a very stark warning to America and the USSR, and caused both to not be willing to use nukes throughout the cold war. Had the bombs never been used, and the horrors of it seen on real people, I think both the US and USSR would have been a little less reluctant to use their nukes, and then the result would have been far more disastrous than 2 cities lost.