Griffin said:
Let me start off by saying i'm not from the US. Now lets start posting some facts. As you can see here just weeks before the bombs were dropped Japan refused to surrender. 21 July 1945, The U.S. delivers a final ultimatum to the Japanese, quit the war or face total destruction.
29 July 1945, Japan formally rejects the U.S. ultimatum.
Now lets look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both towns were main military targets. Also large parts of the population had already left the cities before the bombs were dropped due to bomb threats. This would have left mostly workers and those directly helping the war effort left. "Hiroshima was a city of considerable military importance. It contained the 2nd Army Headquarters, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan. The city was a communications center, a storage point, and an assembly area for troops." "Nagasaki had been one of the largest sea ports in southern Japan and was of great war-time importance because of its many and varied industries, including the production of ordnance, ships, military equipment, and other war materials. The narrow long strip attacked was of particular importance because of its industries." Now lets look at the Japanese Military strength in 1945. "By 1945, there were 5.5 million men in the Imperial Japanese Army." The japanese Military also planned to use 6,500 suicide plans to attack any US invasion of japan, along with 5,000 suicide boats.
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I don't care about the statistics you just threw at me, I don't care about how many soldiers were left, or what attacks they were planning.
The bottom line is, the Japanese were close to surrendering and you cannot justify the deaths of almost half a million people, simple as that.
Some people make me sick.