[Tom4784]

What happened to Japan was one of the travesties of the World War and was one that our side committed and endorsed.

No matter what is said, those bombs killed more civilians than military personnel and it did more harm to and harmed people not even born yet for generations. Japan was run by a dictatorship, the people did not have a say in the actions of the government or it's military yet it was the people who suffered most just for being born in the wrong place. If the situation was reversed and it was we who were in Japan's position, the bombings would never be seen as justified even if we committed the vile acts that Japan's military were guilty of. The targeting of civilians with a weapon that would have side effects for generations to come is just too reprehensible to defend or justify.

Japan was ruled by truly evil people and you only have to read what the military did to Korea or the atrocities in Nanjing to know that they weren't any better, they weren't people just following orders, but to do what the Allies did to get them to surrender was not worth it. Germany had lost, most of the conflict had come to an end. I think Japan would have eventually had to surrender without the use of the atomic bombs.

The death and maiming of civilians is never justifiable.