[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Japan were losing at that point.

They would've surrendered out of necessity.

"It is easy now, after the event, to look back and say that Japan was already a beaten nation, and to ask what therefore was the justification for the use of the atomic bomb"


"From this background I believe, with complete conviction, that the use of the atomic bomb saved hundreds of thousands—perhaps several millions—of lives, both American and Japanese; that without its use the war would have continued for many months"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...n-used/376238/